My Favorite Criminal Defense Lawyer on The MeToo Movement

I have a lot of feelings about the MeToo Movement.  Mostly I try to avoid listening to everybody talk about it for the sake of my mental health.

But I very much enjoy criminal defense lawyer Bruce Rivers.  He's bright, honest, and funny.  He has two really good custom rap songs, an intro and an outro.  Importantly, he has good takes that enrich my understanding of criminal law.  And I learned something from this video!  A couple of things.

I had avoided knowing much of anything about this case, again, for purposes of my mental health.  I try not to know what happens among rich people in America because I don't care, for one thing, and because it's an added layer of stress, for another.  It makes me feel like the sky of rape culture is caving in when he doesn't face consequences, which I was sure he wouldn't.

But I always enjoy Bruce Rivers' commentary, and he didn't disappoint. 

• Right off the bat, he was stunningly candid about how his profession used to directly, attack the survivor as their go-to move, and why there's now the "rape shield" act to prevent such bullying.  But that frank admission from the opposition, and the way he elaborated on it throughout, was refreshing.
• Because of the MeToo Movement, New York, Minnesota, and some other jurisdictions crafted some temporary statute of limitations that allowed for prosecution of old sexual assault cases.  He mentioned a one-year timeframe for this jubilee.  That's why Jean Carroll was able to bring her suit. 

So while that was a pretty great accomplishment for the MeToo Movement, it was a tiny drop in the bucket for the amount of justice that was needed, right?  Like I didn't even hear about it.  And the guys I needed to bring charges against, most of them are dead.  And men acted like the biggest victims in the world about it, complaining that they all got "MeToo'd," like it's a big witch hunt over nothing.  As if we started it.  Sorry, my squillion feelings are leaking out.