Hypocrisy

I was contemplating this morning that Courtney Love/Harrison is one of the only people to have spoken out publicly about Harvey Weinstein before this whole thing exploded. I was contemplating the hypothesis that it cost her movie roles–she made no acting appearances as far as I can tell between 2002 and 2017–but then I read she had MAJOR drug and following behavioral problems, so that could also explain it quite nicely.

But I was also drawing an interesting, to me, analogy, between the failure–the near universal failure, outside of one sidelined “fuck up”–to speak out about abuses that were widely known, and the failure of Christ’s followers to admit who they were.  Peter famously denied knowing him three times.

Later, the martyrdom which followed refusing to repudiate their faith created many Christian saints.  Regrettably, Christians are STILL being martyred in the Middle East, in many cases by people Obama actively supported.

But if you BELIEVE something, really believe it, really feel it from your toes to the top of your head, IT SHOWS.  Meryl Streep, Oprah, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck: they don’t REALLY believe in the rights of women.   Not when it is inconvenient.  And nobody was going to die if they told the full truth publicly.  They weren’t going to die.  It might not have even hurt their careers, which is to say their bank accounts and their vanity.

By their fruits ye shall know them applies equally to people who spout off about egalitarian virtue and human rights as Christians, who at least knowingly accept a standard of accountability.