Super Palace

I believe that Russell Brand is being persecuted for being a high profile shagger at a time, today, when the past is not just another country, but enemy territory. I see clear similarities between his plight and that of Oscar Wilde in his time. Immorality and illegality are not the same thing. One of alleged victims took 25 years to come forward! I don’t care for Brand and never have, but this wreaks of a ‘Me Too’ legal lynching. The 1990s was the era of lad culture — football, lager, and ‘birds.’ I was there and so were many of you. In the pubs and clubs back then it was ‘Get your tits out for the boys.’ Under today’s social and cultural mores that is unacceptable, and rightly so. The point is that Brand as a celebrity filled his boots when it was considered acceptable. However that doesn’t make him a rapist. No man is rich enough to buy back his past, which Brand among others has found to be true and to his cost. The antidote to misogyny is not misandry. Yet I fear that this is where we are now.