jrock645- I hear you on how the "unacceptable sin of the moment" can get (mis)used to undermine people, especially when it`s such an emotionally hot-button issue.
While this will undoubtedly be on of those Subjective Opinion things where some of us simply won`t agree...(yeah, that`s a disclaimer
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Some accusations are so....hard...for the person making them that credulity might be a bit easier to assign, at least for those of us who know victims of such stuff. The victims I know would *NEVER* go through the whole thing just to fulfill some agenda, but of course there are [individuals] who will do most anything to further their causes. So each case should be considered unique and proper scrutiny/due diligence must be applied.
Big diff between stuff like this and other Big Accusations that got out of hand like The Red Scare = This stuff is genuinely serious on a personal level, it`s not just some abstraction gone paranoid and run amok. Of course there are, uhm...differing levels of misbehavior..but seriously, it`s just NOT HARD for a decent person to go through life without doing anything even remotely close to inappropriate because decent people don`t do inappropriate stuff.
IMO the companies that are cleaning house would just as happily keep any [individual] on/safe/free to victimize if that made them money, the "corporate outrage" is just a business decision and really has zip to do with "doing the right thing"...unless "the right thing" means TCB.
And heh heh, yeah..I know, I`m sorta Autopia`s Resident Male Feminist in the eyes of some folks. Know enough abused/mistreated women and you can get that way. I somebody had told me that I`d know..personally KNOW...so many victims of sexual misconduct, I`d have said they were crazy, but they really are *that* numerous. It`s not BS.
