#MeToo has struggled to reckon with the accused and redeemed. Credit: Getty
On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the 67-year-old touted his record managing the pandemic while flanked by his daughters, who also introduced him at the venue. It was a striking choice of imagery, since Cuomo’s gubernatorial career was cut short in 2021 after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. Ultimately, the Department of Justice concluded that Cuomo had harassed 13 women.
On the day he resigned, 10 August, 2021, Cuomo was famously photographed, coffee cup in hand, entering a helicopter alongside his daughter Michaela. His mayoral campaign launch visually called back to that moment. It’s a testament to how rapidly the cultural atmosphere has shifted: though Cuomo remained largely unapologetic, at one point blaming his handsiness with women on his Italian heritage, he did resign. Now, a little more than three years later, the ex-governor is more brazen, expecting forgiveness for his sexual lapses.
He isn’t alone. In 2017, the comedian Louis CK was accused of masturbating in front of female comedians. But since being cancelled, he has toured the country, appeared on several podcasts, and sold out a show at Madison Square Garden. Today, tickets to his upcoming Los Angeles performance are going for several thousands of dollars. #MeToo, it seems, is sunsetting along with the woke era.
It would be tempting to look at this turn of events and conclude that #MeToo failed completely. It would also be wrong: the movement succeeded in dethroning big-time, violent abusers and in raising barriers to the sort of harassment that used to be routine in many workplaces. However, the path to redemption created by the movement has been less than satisfactory, especially for accused men without the benefit of money and fame.
The re-election of Donald Trump and events since his inauguration have confirmed the decline of wokeness. For many people, that means no longer living in fear of the Left’s lifestyle and language police. While #MeToo is in some ways a different phenomenon from woke, the two were blended in the public mind, as part of the same culture of accusation and interrogation. But no more. Comebacks like Louis CK’s and Cuomo’s will proliferate amid the vibe shift, even as the collateral of the #MeToo movement is still settling.
Seven years since the movement first emerged, the men accused in #MeToo fall into three categories: the imprisoned, the forgotten, and the forgiven. Those who have been accused, tried, and convicted of the worst crimes, such as Harvey Weinstein with his numerous assault charges, have been managed and dealt with. The forgotten include men who weren’t all that relevant to begin with, like the actor Scott Baio; men only relevant to niche corners, like the former Paris Review editor Lorin Stein; or men we don’t even recall being accused of in the first place, like Morgan Freeman. However, it’s the third category, those whom we’ve “forgiven” — or at least, those men allowed back into the public eye, men who continue to be afforded opportunities, visibility, and money — that we continue to reckon with.
Most of the biggest villains of #MeToo, those accused of drugging and raping women, remain either in custody or entirely shunned from society. We felt the ripple effects of those men in more recent exposés about Neil Gaiman and Sean “Diddy” Combs. But for some of the rest — those who perhaps made unwelcome advances upon women, made them uncomfortable, exploited their position of power for otherwise consensual sex, etc. — the cultural and political gates have re-opened.
When we look to how our culture has reintegrated men whose transgressions have largely been nonviolent and semi-consensual, perhaps we can begin to trace #MeToo as a broader project, one that remains unfinished. As a movement, #MeToo has succeeded thus far in reorienting how we view both perpetrators of sexual violence and victims. It is indeed harder now for men in positions of power to quietly continue hurting people thanks to that power. For this, #MeToo should be considered a triumph.
Which brings us to the downsides of #MeToo. In some cases, these have been either been overestimated or largely remedied — with some critical exceptions. There is a dominant cultural narrative among #MeToo’s critics that the movement’s biggest impact has been in making young men more fearful of approaching women and pursuing romance. According to Gallup data, however, this has not panned out: young men report being unaffected by #MeToo, while the share of women who “often or sometimes” worry about being sexually assaulted has risen 15%.
As Daniel A. Cox at the Survey Center on American Life explained: “#MeToo effectively undercut victim-blaming narratives that perpetuated the idea that sexual assault is the result of poor decisions, miscommunication, or unlucky happenstance…. In the wake of #MeToo, there was recognition that sexual assault and harassment were pervasive problems in American society. Many have come to believe it could happen to anyone”.
This, too, is a triumph, but one that requires more interrogation. Women are now more fearful of sexual assault. Are they right to be? Has the awareness element of the campaign made us any safer? Are we ultimately any less likely to be assaulted, and are those who commit assaults any more likely to be caught?
Our legal system rarely convicts rapists, and reporting your boss for sexual misconduct is very different for someone without the resources of some of Weinstein’s famous accusers like Gwyneth Paltrow. But the kind of justice found outside the legal system, in the social isolation of being cancelled, has had awful consequences for normal people, like the Oxford student Alexander Rogers, who took his life after being ostracised for a bad sexual encounter.
Stars with the platform to do so can rebuild their image. In certain cases, like Louis CK’s, their cancellation can even serve as material for their redemption. A politician like Cuomo, meanwhile, will no doubt persuade some voters to overlook his personal shortcomings to save their city from its crises. Whether Cuomo has a good case to make in this regard is a different question. As it is, his pitch amounts to: forget about my personal lousiness — Gotham is going to hell.
Not everyone is so lucky. #MeToo travelled a long way beyond the rich and famous. In our anti-woke era, we have mostly turned away from the routine of cancellation the movement brought out, but the instinct from which it emerged — our desire to uncover and arbitrate the most personal details of someone’s life and to place them under moral scrutiny accordingly — endures. It isn’t just women of Hollywood who experienced sexual violence or threats of it, and it isn’t just famous people whom we place under this culture of surveillance. Perhaps celebrities can be uncancelled now. But what about the nameless?
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SubscribeA decent and quality article. It raises more questions than answers, however ….
As most quality articles should…
That’s actually an interesting point. I’m not at all sure that’s true.
I would suggest that a well-written/high-quality essay should instead illuminate some particular point … or expand on some perspective or belief… such that the reader learns something or sees or understands something that previously was unknown or unconsidered.
After an encounter with a well-crafted thesis, the audience should walk away better informed and perhaps even wiser, with an improved scope of understanding.
If instead they walk away with only a bagful of questions… e.g. ‘What did the author mean? What was intended by this observation? Where did that get that understanding? How does any of this fit with reality?” … OR, in this case… “Did #metoo really dethrone big-time abusers? Were they actually violent? Are we truly ‘allowing’ anyone back into the public eye…is that really our call? Are accusations of misbehavior all considered to be true? And if true, why is Louis CK’s masturbation habit of public concern?” etc…. then it’s difficult to see that essay as being any real kind of quality, isn’t it?
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It made Hollywood feel better after they got caught covering for a prolific sexual predator named Harvey. This was also compensated by Hollywood inserting insufferable, invincible, and illogical girlbosses into half their movies for years but that’s another story. Later it was used as a cheap political ploy without much effect. The whole thing of holding abusive predators accountable never really seemed to go anywhere.
For feminists (at least the more radical kind) the aim is to portray men as such (or masculinity) as intrinsically dangerous. The kind ones will add “under conditions of patriarchy”, so men are redeemable so long as they stop being, well, men. They are not really interested in a narrative of dangerous man as rare exception. It would undermine the whole patriarchy story.
It made Hollywood feel better. Full stop.
Harvey may have been a predator, but the casting couch is not predatory. It is a quid pro quo deal between two consenting, ruthless, professional, narcissistic adults. It is capitalism meeting nature. It’s a beautiful thing!
That’s why there has not been much in the way of “holding abusive predators accountable.” That would only punish one side of the “conspiracy.”
The girl-bosses thing is not another story; it is the same story. The “anyone can be anything” is not working. People have had their software programmed in a way that is not supported by the hardware.
“It is a quid pro quo deal between two consenting, ruthless, professional, narcissistic adults.”
I don’t know if it’s a beautiful thing but I know someone well who worked as a glamour model once upon a time and occasionally suffered harassment and even worse. She said that many of the models offered sex for work (she didn’t) and this certainly muddies the waters for the other models.
Absolutely, the guilty men should be punished. I’m pleased that the Spanish football geezer who rather forcefully kissed one of the players was punished but the behaviour of some women who take advantage by effectively selling sex for work are just as culpable and has been ignored in this scandal.
Women who work on the stage and in films in legitimate and non- pornographic work. I mean as actors. I wont use the term ‘actress’ that word right from the very start has implications of,if not downright Prostitute,then ‘available ‘ at least. Women who portray all the moods and variants of humanity before us. That is they ACT. They act in plays or in movies. They have to be able to convey a SENSE of sexuality,even if their actual role is wholesome,fully clothed,no double entendres,no dodgy actions,they still have to chime with something in us (male and female) that we recognize. I’m finding it hard to define exactly what I mean but we know when it’s NOT THERE. We know when a performance is cardboard,when we feel no connection,when the character being enacted is lifeless and untrue. I do not believe for ONE MINUTE that any of those aspiring movie actors the female ones did not know what going to a hotel room or even a private home for that ‘job interview’ meant or might be likely to entail. Maybe it would be more humiliating to never be asked eh?
Because in REAL REALITY most women find abusive predators really attractive. I guess it goes right back to the days of roaming that savannah in bands but Bad Boys always REALLY appeal. And that’s why boys and young men are listening to Andrew Tate.
What about Bill Cosby? That case seems like a major omission. He’s managed to wriggle out of his prison sentence despite doing awful things to numerous women.
How could you say that, he’s black isn’t he, and therefore beyond reproach? Just like that other paragon of virtue, the late George Floyd Esq.
They’ve been chasing Cosby since well before #metoo. Based on all the evidence presented, certainly the man’s a creep… but it’s not #metoo which brought that forward.
As for ‘wriggling out’, I think that’s still ongoing. His conviction and prison sentence was overturned because of a prior agreement with a prosecutor, but new charges are still being filed.
#MeToo has nothing over #MarryRich.
An interesting result. I’m surprised that young men aren’t more nervous of approaching women – especially given there is much on the internet about precisely that.
That women have become more fearful is a great shame. Obviously it always makes sense to be careful, but women are at no real risk from the vast majority of men. I wonder if this is an Anglosphere phenomena. When hiking abroad I’m amazed at how many women are perfectly happy to hike alone – Danes, Poles, Germans, Dutch, French – but rarely British or American.
I am a woman and the #MeToo movement made my job offers dry up. As a woman who worked construction, often the only woman on remote projects, I was always held in high regard with young men wanting to be on my crews. Then came the “movement” and on my last job I witnessed a young lady accuse the boss of inappropriate behavior. She was not doing her job and he was starting to worry, so he kept trying to get her to stay focused on her tasks. He nearly lost his job, and 4 engineering students had to be brought onto the project to fix the mess she made. A woman suddenly became a dangerous risk to the men. I decided to retire, and I’m glad to be away from the madness.
I am not saying this is a bad thing – but the reality is that as a man I will only interact with young women in the workplace superficially. Literally anything you do or say could be misconstrued and used against you so non-engagement is the safe policy. The #MeTo movement really did shift the balance of proof in workplaces – so more formal behaviour is prudent.
I would worry about managing the performance of a female member of staff. I would fear that if I judged her (accurately) to be underperforming I might be faced with an accusation. I’m not saying all women would do this – but some would, and I would rather not take the risk.
Exactly so. Why hire a potential law suit.
But of course not engaging with her could easily also get you into trouble. Maybe not for sexual harassment but for misogynistic treatment. In this sort of society you cannot win (or be safe) whatever you do.
There are rules for men in the office as a result of false accusations of inappropriate behaviour by women. Almost every man I know is aware of them and mostly follow them. There are a few exceptions – women who are known to be safe – but most women are interacted with as minimally as possible and never in private. Hiring of women has decreased significantly based on the expected demands, complaints and potential for false accusations. The article says that young men are unaffected by MeToo. Maybe they are simply naive and not fully aware of how women use the movement for their own ends.
What’s interesting if you look at Gallup data is the extent to which this is a party political issue. Democrats (male and female) are far less satisfied with women’s situation in the US than are republicans.
Could this perception be more driven by belief system than accurate perception of the facts?
Contemporary feminism spends so much time and energy telling women how awful life is as a woman that it’s a miracle the female suicide rate isn’t much higher than it is. It’s no wonder so many girls are simply refusing to become women at all. Or trying not to, anyway.
Women spend a lot of time being victims. This includes a lot of time getting into a victim position. When you are a member of the Culture of Victimhood, which is all feminists, you must take a winning position and make it about your victimhood. Being a victim means NEVER actually being happy about the situation.
I have a friend who was #metoo crushed. He was an academic, and had done well. A woman accused him of advances (never consummated) and this was enough to take him down. His version is that she is the one who made the advances, and he rejected them, thus the #metoo was a revenge accusation. I worked with this guy, who has been married to the same woman for longer than have I (both long married, different women).
In the #metoo era, an accusation was enough.
That’s wrong.
BTW, he was forced into retirement. Not early, but not by his choosing. He’s the kind of guy who #metoo really hurt – a small player, not famous, and there is no path to recovery of his former position.
Why is this so rarely pointed out? Very disturbing.
I think it happened quite a lot. It seems to have been used to settle old (totally non sex related) scores as well as in situations like the one you describe.
When it was in full swing I think most men were frightened to come to the defence of other men for fear they would then be targeted. Everybody thought it better to keep their heads down.
Vile
> like the Oxford student Alexander Rogers, who took his life after being ostracised for a bad sexual encounter.
Oh so there’s actually a fourth category, those people.who.had their lives destroyed by lying and manipulative women who got off on feeling powerful.
Me too was nothing but mob justice run amok, destroyed countless lives drove a wedge into society and destroyed hundreds of innocent lives. While at the same time very few actual criminals were caught because as soon as people started.pointing to liberals and democratic politicians it stopped cold. That’s convenient innit.
Of course that doesn’t mean we can’t drag a politician through the mud that we don’t like based on a random allegation by some woman from 40 years ago, based on a party the accused never even attended.
Like so much of activism, metoo didn’t know when to quit. It was misapplied on Brett Kavanaugh, was a tool of political convenience with Cuomo – Dems didn’t care that his decision to than covid patients in senior homes killed people – and it has since run aground because the people behind it no longer know what a woman is.
A myopic and self-serving essay. In fact there are FOUR categories of men accused in the #metoo era – the fourth and largest of which is – men wrongly accused, who had their careers ruined by falae allegations.
“. . . the imprisoned, the forgotten, and the forgiven”
Hah.
The “forgotten” are the thousands upon thousands of men whose careers were ruined by unfounded, unsubstantiated, vindictive accusations by women with an ax to grind. Convicted without trial, marked with the “predator” label, completely innocent men had their reputations destroyed, and–in most cases–lost their jobs over these accusations. Corporations worried about appearing indifferent to women declaring they were harassed or sexually assaulted–the latter accusation now including such things as supposed leers that made those women feel unsafe–bent over backwards to discipline or terminate the employment of the accused, whether there was evidence of such behavior, or not.
Better safe than sorry may be an appropriate moto for a large corporation, but it comes at the expense of innumerable men who lost jobs and livelihoods based upon one woman’s unfounded declarations.
I know of a number of acquaintances who paid the price of being “forgotten” only in the sense of no longer having a job, and being shunned by other employers in their industry after being marked by the #MeToo adherents as unclean.
Additionally, a whole generation of men have been educated that they run the risk of their lives being ruined if they make the mistake of even talking with the wrong woman.
This is all a tragedy blithely ignored by the author of this article, and a clear example of how the fading of the #MeToo movement ignores the wreckage left behind by its demise. Unjustified calumny ruined the lives of many men who were just regular guys who didn’t have the cache of the Entertainment Industry to jump start their return to society.
Shame on those of you who let this happen, and now try to declare it’s all over.
It was an object lesson in where power really lies though!
Exactly right.
Illustrated well back in 1930’s ‘Blue Angel’ in which the showgirl/prostitute played by Marlene Dietrich destroyed absolutely the previously well-respected university professor played by Emil Jannings who was made drunk & incoherent by her beauty.
We speak too easily of ‘power imbalance’ when a rich & famous Matt Lauer, as an example, makes careless sexual advances upon an NBC staffer…when it was the Staffer who then proceeded to condemn Lauer to an unpaid oblivion.
As Paul Atreides/Frank Herbert noted: “The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”
A generation ago, when an academic, a female colleague accused me of sexism and plagiarism. It was patently nonsense, inspired by professional jealousy and raised by someone with wonky hinges.
l assumed she would be taken aside, told to cease and desist, and that would be that.
Nah…
The powers that be were simply unwilling to take action, hoping it would go away.
The whole shebang escalated until we were both to appear at a hearing: she never showed. In fact she wouldn’t engage with the process at all.
l got redress- my name cleared via a letter dictated by me, to a distribution list of my choosing- only after telling the University Secretary l would go to my lawyer, or the press.
lt was a surreal that someone could say something out of the blue, that everyone knew was nonsense, yet no one would do a damned thing about it.
In that stressful year l changed how l interacted with students. As a young academic I was astonished how inept senior faculty were, but at least l got an outcome.
A decade later l’m sure l’d have been out.
No, #metoo was in no way a success…unless, by success, we mean the warping and ongoing distortion of male/female interaction, the immolation of the innocent on the pyre of accusation, and the continuing infantilization of women.
The author disagrees, telling us, “the movement succeeded in dethroning big-time, violent abusers.” UhHuh. Certainly a handful of ‘big-time’ names stepped down (Harvey, Matt, Al), but the further down the list you go (Andy d**k??) the smaller & more insignificant those names become. You might throw Cosby on the list, but Bill’s been fighting accusations of rape/assault/drugging since the early 80’s, well before #metoo.
And violent? Beyond Harvey’s aggressive vulgarity, it’s hard to imagine that anyone else on the Times list of the top 201 (and that’s a real stretch right there) were actually violent, meaning they acted to injure or kill the Other in order to have sex. Hard to imagine Stuart Smalley with a gun, knife, or chainsaw. Hard to imagine Matt Lauer, in his office on the Today Show, with a shotgun, forcing staffers to have sex (after he told them to lock the door). Eddie Berganza (who the hell is Mr. Berganza?) one of Times 201 was fired for accusations that he ‘forcibly kissed’ a staffer. Perhaps he had an axe?
She tells us the Movement “raised barriers” to harassment in the workplace. What barriers?
Certainly #metoo, as embodied by countless HR departments, placed a bludgeon in the hands of every female employee who feels she was somehow ‘dissed’, offended, hurt, criticized, passed-over, dumped, used… you name it. But raising barriers to harassment? C’mon now. Do we really need to re-review the old SNL skit with Fred Armisen/Tom Brady on Sexual Harassment? As the voice-over explained… as to what Fred did wrong and Tom did right… “Fred was awkward and a little too pushy, Tom was handsome”
Per Daniel Cox at the Survey Center, “In the wake of #MeToo, there was recognition that sexual assault and harassment were pervasive problems in American society. Many have come to believe it could happen to anyone”.
What?
It COULD happen to anyone?
It HAS happened to everyone. That’s life. When we define a sexual assault as anything of a sexual nature which is unwanted, then there isn’t a man on the face of the earth who has not — somewhere/sometime –done or said something of a sexual nature which was unwanted. There is not a woman on the face of the earth who would not say that somewhere, sometime they experienced ‘something’ (a joke, a kiss, a sweaty hand, a too close embrace, an unwanted kiss, a hug that lingered) that they didn’t really like.
The truth is male/female sexual interaction is a hi-risk, full-contact sport….from first glance to marriage and a houseful of children. Men advance, women respond, and both maneuver, circle, and try again in a different way at a different time, and see what happens, fingers crossed. Each tries their best to interpret what the heck the other wants, the other intends, the other means while simultaneously trying to figure out what they themselves most truly desire (knowing that everything changes). Throw in a few margaritas on top of a bubbling hormonal cocktail, human lust & loneliness, and our own natural tendency to see and hear what we want to see & hear…. and it’s a flat-out wonder Adam and Eve ever managed to get together (the Snake, I hear, was a real enabler). Love hurts.
#metoo / affirmative consent / Dear Colleague / Title IX complaints / Kangaroo Kourts / the WOKE definitions of rape & assault: their only real success is in taking the human out of human being.
I just want to say that the last 3 paragraphs of this comment are bloody great.
‘In our anti-woke era’ of just over a month! I think you are bullshitting us perhaps…
#MeToo never reached Australia.
It would have died at the border, if it ever did, since we have no functional law-enforcement, likely never did.
Australia has all the laws, regulations, all the entities anyone could possibly dream of for the appearance of not just law & order, but also transparency. In reality crime reporting is routinely blocked even for crimes witnessed by a public servant (Business Analyst, Victorian Electoral Commission, the “VEC”, 2009-2012) that are punishable by many years in jail in theory. When a crime reporting attempt cannot be blocked because e.g. there is a bleeding scar from an assault with a weapon, then police refuse evidence, refuse to compare versions of the events between the victim & the perpetrator & close the case “due to insufficient evidence”. There is nothing anyone can do to change that, as I had to find out since 2009 in leafy Melbourne.
I haven’t made poor life-decisions or costly mistakes leading to my inevitable demise: I never even dated the stalker ex-coworker freely devastating my life, I only know the MARCUCCI Brotherhood through their exhibitionist crime gluttony. They want to be seen as being free to do as they please. Dozens of them.
In reality Australia’s most dangerous criminals have always been police officers, because Australia’s police officers have neither duty of care or accountability to anyone but to their own, often criminal colleagues, while having a monopoly on what is a crime. Mario MARCUCCI being an ex-Victoria Police officer may be the source of the risk-free criminality of the MARCUCCI Brotherhood.
Living in Australia is a hard-earned privilege for me. I paid an extremely high price for my children to grow up in a country that people mistakenly believe to be a place of law & order, hence my outrage, hence my desperate posts on every conceivable platform: people need to know what to expect in/from Australia. I exhausted all legal avenues 2009-2018 trying to stop a stalker ex-coworker’s increasingly devastating crimes against me, crimes openly aided by criminal Victoria Police officers like Mario MARCUCCI and failed. Last crime against me in my home, on my own, behind locked doors today, on the 5th of March 2025. Repeatedly. The technology used delivering the crimes today is likely military-grade, so using it against civilians violates the Geneva Convention. Beware: Australia faked its way into AUKUS, The Five Eyes, etc.
I started experiencing remotely induced physical harm incidents always in my home until a gym incident in 2022, usually at night & often before court hearings from the time in 2019, when I declared self-representation as Victoria Police forced me to fight at court as an accused criminal in an admitted silencing attempt, tried to entrap me 2x & started flashing their uniforms & their marked vehicles’ lights, started blaring their marked vehicles’ sirens delivering crimes to my home 24x7x365 – while they were forcing me to fight at court in an admitted silencing attempt about the crimes I witnessed, crimes I continue being forced to live with.
I won at court anyway, because the prosecutor bluffed. It must be very easy to entrap/frame innocent people, given how badly the prosecutor underestimated my intelligence. I may not be so lucky next time. Victoria Police officers are known to fabricate/plant evidence as they please, to successfully incriminate crime witnesses they are unable to silence otherwise. They also commit bizarre crimes, e.g. using vastly disproportionate means to achieve a nonsensical outcome to discredit crime witnesses/victims, whom they cannot silence.
By 2019 I was reduced to surviving crime-to-crime in my million $ Melbourne home, self-isolating, to save others from the inevitable crime spill-overs: if I attended a dance event, the audio repeatedly stopped or the volume went up & down, the visuals were sabotaged, etc. the event was ruined. Businesses I interacted with had their orders messed up via hacked systems, etc. The MARCUCCI Brotherhood has members from a wide range of expertise from government-grade adversarial technology via the Australian Signals Directorate through the Australian Defense Force to the police as I have been forced to learn. The MARCUCCI show off their risk-free criminality like toddlers show off a new puppy.
I was a migrant success story MBA, e-commerce world-champion owning my home since 2001 in a leafy suburb, before a stalker IT Helpdesk Assistant coworker with unrestricted access to everyone’s up-to-date home address – excluding illegal aliens who never use medical services, never own property, never operate a vehicle that needs a licence AND don’t live with anyone who do – via his job at the VEC added me to his already long list of concurrent targets. I was 1 of at least 7 of his concurrent targets just from the VEC. I never even dated the stalker.
Crime hiding is so perfect in Australia, I lived within a 10km radius 1988-2008 from where the stalker’s onslaught of crimes against me started in 2009 & knew nothing of crimes.
Remotely induced physical harm incidents became so severe in 2025 – I had incidents every day this year except for one, it is now obvious to me, the MARCUCCI Brotherhood & who knows how many other crime gangs are able to kill people remotely without any risk of prosecution. I am so outraged & horrified, I lost all fear. I even went back to Victoria Police this year – twice. Each times after a terrifying remotely induced physical harm incident only to learn that it is indeed a waste of time at best in Australia to try to report crimes committed by police officers & their accomplices. What the MARCUCCI Brotherhood flaunt means the law is manifestly irrelevant. This means the foundation of civilisation is irrelevant. This is far worse than #MeToo could ever imagine. Hence my desperate/awkward comments.
#ididnotstaysilent
What is a remotely induced physical harm incident?
Are we supposed to care or something. You sound weird. No wonder the social group has ejected you to be at the mercy of the roaming lions.
Haha
I see you live in Victoria (or the People’s Democratic Republic of Victoria, as it is generally known). I don’t think Victoria is typical of the rest of Australia in this regard. There was a time when New South Wales was the state with the most corrupt police, but that title now goes to Victoria.
14 March 2025
Remotely induced physical harm incidents continue, together with typical cyber-crimes & acoustic violence brought to my home via motorcycles etc. This year I have been subjected to remotely induced physical harm incidents in every 24-hour time period but one.
Last night I was subjected to another extended stretch of body overheating with tachycardia possibly via electromagnetic radiation (EMR). I don’t know the time when it started. I woke up again to extreme discomfort, chest pains, my heart labouring. It is easier to cope if I don’t note the time of these incidents, but it was dark & quiet outside.
The heatwave has now ended in Melbourne. I slept with my windows open because of the inexplicable cigarette smell in my home/bedroom over the past week or so. Australia’s criminal police officers & their accomplices discredit crime witnesses & victims via bizarre crimes. Discredited crime witnesses/victims are assets to criminal police officers, while murdered ones like Sallie-Anne Huckstepp are liabilities. I don’t know how inexplicable smells like cigarette smoke are introduced into one’s home. I don’t smoke & I live alone. During the winters of 2021-2023 while I could not afford heating because of the severity of ongoing crimes against me, I often had to sleep with my windows open because of inexplicable diesel smells inside my bedroom. I detailed some of my forced experience in my ‘Perfect Crimes’ LinkedIn article.
My windows were open all day yesterday & the night before also. This means the temperature inside the house would have been below 20 degrees Celsius while my body was subjected to overheating, with my heart labouring very hard.
During the EMR assault I was subjected to electric shocks again to my limbs, hands & to my throat.
Both the EMR & the electric shocks were at their old intensity – there was a noticeable drop in the intensity of remotely induced physical harm incidents between the end of February & last night.
Motorbike acoustic violence marked the likely end of the EMR assault. It takes a while for my body to return to normal. It is impossible to get used to crimes, no matter how many times they occur.
The EMR(?) assaults restarted at dawn again.
I feel very weak, but as determined as ever to expose Australia’s absurd crime reality, because the price we, the public are forced to pay for Mick GATTO & co to be able to increase their already obscene wealth is unsustainable. https : // build-it . au/tools-down/cashed-up-tradies-blow-pay-bump-on-cocaine
The white Ford Raptor license plate BRB-314 with wide, black stripes & black trimmings is parked across the road again, as it is often the case, when I am subjected to remotely induced physical harm incidents. The usual driver of this truck has a pear shape typical of MARCUCCI men.
I have no idea what else to do but make public interest disclosures like this one.
Australia has no functional law-enforcement, likely never had. See the 60 Minutes episode “Building Bad” (2024) about bikies running the CFMEU. A few seconds after the timestamp below Mark NEY (ex-AFP Assistant Commissioner) casually admits police doing nothing about proven crimes that are at a scale capable of bankrupting Victoria, likely the whole of Australia:
https : // youtu . be/EuoWv-VKvy0?t=820
16 March 2025
Remotely induced physical harm incidents continue, in addition to vehicle-delivered acoustic violence.
I was subjected to remote body overheating from before dawn today again at least twice, possibly via electromagnetic radiation (EMR). These body overheating incidents take a massive toll on my body.
The newest, obvious addition to remotely induced physical harm is cigarette smoke so intense, having all my windows open yesterday all day & all night could not clear it. I don’t smoke & live alone.
Yesterday I investigated, I asked the young couple living in a separate area of the house if they smoke.
When they opened the door, there was no cigarette smoke smell coming out. Opening my door hits me with cigarette smoke smell. I asked the couple after I was hit with such a volume of cigarette smoke inside my shower cubicle, I had to run out of the shower all wet, coughing uncontrollably.
Environmental pollution as a crime type against me is nothing new.
Anything can be planted via any of the countless house/car break-ins I have been forced to acknowledge. I only know of break-ins of course, when the MARCUCCI leave signs for me.
I found long, light brown hair strands mixed into my freshly cooked food left unattended for less than an hour to cool on my stove a few years back, when I had short, black hair & I was already isolated by the crime gluttony of the MARCUCCI Brotherhood. The stalker ex-coworker has long, light brown hair. The MARCUCCI continue signalling to me via bizarre sound effects, electric shocks e.g. when I sit down on my own bed & disconnecting my modem when I try to open Gmail etc. that I continue being under surveillance inside my home 24x7x365.
I am very weak again, I had to cancel all my gym classes since last Thursday.
Gym classes are my sole, remaining connection to the world, apart from a kind neighbour who helps out with lawn-mowing & repairs following sabotages.
Are the MARCUCCI Brotherhood/other criminal gangs aiding Mick GATTO, the CFMEU, Mafia, Mongols, Comanchero etc. kill people remotely via toxic gases pumped into our homes?
I recognise diesel fume & cigarette smoke smells.
Carbon monoxide is an odourless killer.
A person refusing to aid crime would die on their own (or with their loved ones) behind locked doors. Nothing suspicious for Victoria Police/Australia’s dysfunctional law-enforcement aiding crime as if their life depended on it – do they KNOW, they are aiding crime? The likes of Mario MARCUCCI obviously do.
As a bizarre crime pumping toxic gases into people’s homes would fit the crime profile of the MARCUCCI Brotherhood.
There must be good reasons why a gangster like Mick GATTO has “Ockam’s Razor” (sic) tattooed on his chest over his heart, next to “Not Guilty”, showing them off with a huge grin, with bone chilling innocence. Ockham’s Razor is a rule of thumb about the simplest explanation being usually right. For Victoria Police this means a corpse (Jennifer Tanner’s) found with TWO perfectly aimed shots through her forehead via a long-barreled shotgun is a non-suspicious suicide. According to Victoria Police Jennifer Tanner pulled the trigger with her toes. TWICE. Achieving perfect aim both times.
Mick GATTO proudly shows off his tattoos to photo journalists.
https : //www . dailymail . co . uk/news/article-12293417/Melbourne-Mick-Gatto-tattoos-Bali-holiday.html
The buck doesn’t just stop with Victoria Police, it disappears altogether.
I had to learn this way before Victoria Police forced me to fight at court in an admitted silencing attempt in 2019, tried to entrap me 2x & started openly delivering crimes to my home day & night. I never even dated the stalker ex-coworker aided by Mario MARCUCCI & co in his crimes since 2009. I only know the MARCUCCI via their crime gluttony. Dozens & dozens of the MARCUCCI show off their risk-free criminality. I lost count once after 50 HUGE Harley Davidsons once in 2022.
Criminal Victoria Police officers & their accomplices use vastly disproportionate means to achieve nonsensical outcomes to discredit crime witnesses & victims. Bizarre crimes are ideal also for crime witness/victim isolation. I am a public servant witness (Business Analyst, Victorian Electoral Commission, 2009-2012) to crimes punishable by 10 years in jail, whom Victoria Police haven’s been able to silence yet. My only escape from the MARCUCCI’s unpunished, never-ending crimes would be suicide. I am so outraged & horrified by what Australia’s lawlessness means for civilisation itself, I lost the ability to fear anything. I won’t be committing suicide any time soon.
All hope about stopping crime dies with Victoria Police. They show off their uniforms, flash their marked vehicles’ lights, blare their marked vehicles’ sirens committing crimes even in Clare O’Neil’s leafy electorate in broad daylight. Because they can. I exhausted all legal avenues by the end of 2018 & failed to get at least easily provable, physical MARCUCCI crimes on any official record.
Well Magdalene, Love, if MeToo exponents continue to use nonsense terms like “otherwise consensual” and “semi- consensual”, MeToo will always be understood by men as a tool, a weapon, used by women with a man problem.
You neglected to mention the fallout – ostracism, firings, even suicides – of the countless non-famous men accused of making women “feel uncomfortable” because of the rug pull on social mores that made banter akin to violence.
In reality – in the real world – in quotidian life at all levels,the “victim” is not empathized with,is not viewed with compassion and sympathy. I’m talking here about our most primal level of thinking and being,way below the surface gloss of our 20th and then 21st century later of thought and being. The victim is hated and ‘othered’ for bringing before our eyes the darkness,that dark side that we all know should be forever hidden and not alluded to. So we HATE THEM more than the sly and crafty perpetrators. In fact it may be wiser to stay silent and not join a highlighting movement – unless you have wealth and power to sustain you. Making a mistake can be fatal. Our stone age savannah roaming forebears knew this and would eject mistake-makers from the social group to certain death. It was that way then and it’s that way now. Ignore the surface glitter. It’ll always be true that “men get all the pleasure,women all the pain”.
It’s like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, or in this case, The Woman Who Cried Sexual Misconduct. These women are abusing the compassion of their fellow human beings and mocking and disprecting their fellow women who are actually survivors of sexual abuse. A man making a pass at you isn’t a reason to have a conniption fit, but if a guy who does it is in any way in a position of ‘power’ over you, a boss or supervisor, bingo! Time to use it as a way to get rid of him and get ahead. That’s disgusting and disturbing and that’s why METOO can’t be taken seriously.
metoo has always been obnoxious
Surely #MeToo accomplished at least two highly desirable things: 1) Harvey Weinstein in jail, 2) Geoffrey Epstein dead.
There is an enormous crater of a gap in this analysis, which is the effect that the movement has had on the police an judicial system. “Believe all women” was a ba$tardisation of the movement, and that has influenced the justice system to start from a place of imbalance at best and injustice at worst.
This is extensively present in the UK and much like Woke it initially starts as a concept but then it has wheedled it’s way through bureacracy and procedures and then terror at being accused of dismissing women’s claims and thus forcing that protection into being unjust to men.
Women are just as capable of manipulation of and controlling men as vice versa and with a justice system, or at least the frontline police, erring on the side of at first believing all women, they have the ability to manipulate the system and the “safeguarding” bureacracy written by terrified HR types.
There is always a balance which is extremely difficult to find, but the Hollywood hysteria which was infected by really bad men in high profile cases, which has flowed downwards has created a major failure of our justice system and men without power fame of wealth can have their lives destroyed by a “woman scorned”.
The statue on the Old Bailey is of Justice – a woman wearing a blindfold, carrying balanced scales and the sword of justice. That concept has been devalued as a result of actions to right wrongs going way too far and our Justice system, like most of our lives, diminished by “well meaning” but “over weaning” beauracracy>