There’s a couple issues here. One involving the unfairness with which the white actors are treated and the black celebrities. While Downey reformed, and everyone including Majors should be allowed to reform, often when big projects are filmed costing a tens or hundreds of millions, the studios try to recoup their losses and manage the issue. With Ezra for example, I haven’t seen or heard from him. The studio actually released the movie over seas, and my brother in law in Kazakhstan saw it four years ago. It just came out on Netflix or Amazon now, hoping amnesia kicked in and they can recover some of the money. But I’m not sure he’ll be back as he definitely has issues.

But the second issue the women. It turns out the legal strategy of smearing women who made accusations by attacking their clothes, attitude, and “lies” and other things started at least in the US in the 1790s from what I’ve lightly researched and read about. In other words, as soon as American became a country with its own laws, men starting using lawyers to develop “strategies” against any women who leveled accusations. Women who step forward get their reputation trashed and dragged through the mud. The R. Kelly documentary gives horrific details, and although he, Cosby, Puff Daddy Diddy, and other black men have been accused, and “hush money” paid for settlements, I’ve tracked plenty of cases with white men. Women tend to forget race, ethnicity, and background when wealth and prestige are concerned. Bruce Lee’s wife was a white blond as I recall (he didn’t beat her as I recall and since he was fastest fighter on earth I doubt it would have went well; they could have been happy).

So I tend to have the sympathizes for the women first over the race issue when it comes to accusations of rape and physical abuse. I’ve just studied the issue too much. The accusations by the man’s lawyer against the woman always involving degrading her further, calling her a liar,, a gold digger, as strategy does usually win in court where the idea of consent is critical and hard to prove. But estimates range from 95 to 99 percent of the time woman is telling the truth and not lying. A lot of men “in heat” do something stupid in their life that falls short of rape or beatings and may not be harmful, just annoyingly harmful. But the big abuses that cross a line, women are then beaten down by the courts. Only 17 to 29 percent of the time women report sexual assault and rape, and of that only a handful of cases prosecuted. It ends up thus less than 2 percent of all cases make it court. It’s very sad system where women are constantly not believed in.