Some of the accusations are now coming out..
Apparently one of them was pretending a banana was his penis and humping the air.
Sounds like a lot of this was crude humor at the time that snowflakes are suddenly offended by.
It's very hard to speculate about things like this honestly. If no pictorial evidence had been provided for the NRL's two dog related incidents it would be very hard to believe either had happened.
If an alleged victim of these claims against some pretty powerful stars or directors etc had sought legal advice, one of the first things the lawyers would have asked is if they could hope to provide a reasonable amount of evidence. In many cases if these people feel like they've been isolated and victimized it would discourage them from taking further action. If a production company has paid big money to lure a popular star as a lead male role who is going to add to the box office appeal for a film, they're probably going to try very hard to avoid wrapping their movie up in a media scandal by drawing attention to what had gone on.
I've dealt with some shit that impacted on my mental state at work involving supervisors. HR did nothing besides telling me that the supervisor had been given a warning about shit that had gone on for a long period of time and they put a lot of pressure on me to not try taking things further. The result was that the same supervisor kept the bullshit up but in a way that was more isolated. The result was that i looked for witnesses when it just about snapped my ability to avoid resorting to violence and one of the people i spoke to ran and told HR that i was close to snapping and i just about lost my job for it.
Another thing to think about to put some perspective on this is the fact that the royal commission into pedophilia has encouraged people that were victims as powerless children to come forward decades later because it's still fucking with their heads in a big way. I know someone who's 56 year old brother recently gave evidence about things that happened to him before he was ten. Part of the struggle for people in these situations is that they're left with a feeling that they won't be believed if they try to fight for their rights and in the process of fighting for those rights they have to expose some pretty painful aspects of their life.
The point I'm getting at here is that from an outsiders perspective you have no idea what has actually gone on, whether the alleged victims tried dealing with it at the time, and if their mental health at the time severely impacted their decision to not come forward. I highly doubt that a lot of these victims wanted to expose themselves to heavy scrutiny when they have doubts that anything will be done. In some cases there may be false claims made by scummy people to potentially draw attention to themselves. That can't be avoided. But in other cases where repeat offenders have done things wrong, sometimes that first person needs to be the pebble that starts a landslide. To a large extent i think these types of people are good at picking their targets.
At the end of the day if it means scumbags that knew they could get away with doing the wrong thing on a regular basis as long as they could intimidate those they abused are found out and forced to at minimum stop doing it, it's a good thing to my way of thinking.
