On the flip side of cancellation, I wonder how much people cancelling are hurting themselves by sticking to retaliation.
Go read about the psychology of forgiveness. There are some pros to "letting it go", when appropriate.
Go read about the psychology of forgiveness. There are some pros to "letting it go", when appropriate.
(Caveat: I have no idea what happened with this particular person.)
Ultimately, I admit that I'm much more troubled by women routinely getting threatened and harassed for daring to speak up against their assailants than the occasional undeserving victim of cancel culture. One problem is just orders of magnitude more common than the other.
And the pendulum swings.
In office environments anyway, the false accusations I’ve seen were easily an order of magnitude more common than actual issues. Transparently so.
When investigating, I’ve had multiple women flat out admit they were making the accusations to get retribution or leverage to get the accused party to go back to them.
It probably wasn't always like that, but when accusations got more powerful and less risky then of course bad actors start doing it more. Women aren't better than men, they just attack people in different ways.