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Old 09-16-2018, 03:48 PM   #1570
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https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/jian-...oks-essay.html

A rebuttal/response to the article from one of his former girlfriends.
This essay is where I struggle with the #metoo movement.

The systemic abuse that women suffer from men needs to be brought to the surface and these abusers need to be brought to justice for their abuse and crimes.

But then what? What happens once the public has its reckoning with these people? Do they continue to live in exile and we are to believe that they will always be the person who they were in the past?

For someone like Gomeshi is it out of the question that he's learned, grown and changed in these four years? Should we just accept that the person that he was is who he always will be?

I can understand the victims not forgiving their abusers, it's completely understandable. But to not give them the chance to use (a lot of) time to become better people? I struggle with it.
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