Thread by @JuliaBerkowitz1

The latest manipulation by the media is how they are trying to make everything about mysoginy. "There's only one true obstacle to controlling your own narrative in the press: being female". Yeah, ask Michael Jackson. @RollingStone

Not to mention the hypocrisy of lumping together Britney and Dylan Farrow. Dylan Farrow is now supposedly not in control of the media narrative because some are questioning the legitimacy of judging people by one-sided documentaries? And that's mysoginy?

I guess due process is mysoginy now. Reminds me of #metoo extremists who seriously call for the abolishing of presumption of innocence and burden of proof in courts in sexual assault cases!

It's more legit to compare the media treatment of MJ and Woody Allen than comparing Dylan Farrow to Britney Spears, since both men have been accused of CSA and got the one-sided HBO doc treatment.

And there are indeed differences in their treatment. WA at least had some defense in the media (ironically often from the same journalists that were in full support of railroading MJ after LN).

Now suddenly the media started to talk about the wrongfulness of one-sided documentaries, trial by media etc. So yeah, there's a difference. But that's not because of gender, as both MJ and WA are men. So what else it could be? I'll let y'all in the media think about that...

And BTW, racism is not necessarily explicit (or even conscious). Sometimes it's your unconscious bias that makes you feel empathy for a white man being treated unfairly, but you have no problem to give the same unfair treatment to a black man.

Or it may be that same unconscious racism when you unconditionally accept the white accusers' (Robson and Safechuck) word as gospel when they accuse a black man and when you give them a huge platform to speak but deny that same platform of the black man's defense.