I agree with much of what you wrote, Rue. A few minor quibbles.
If he KNEW in fact she was under 18 that is an issue.
In fact the girl was 18. Underage in this instance refers to the legal drinking age in Ontario, which is 19. The girl was drinking alcohol underage. It's pretty bizarre that this is being used as an attack on Brown, as if he were the one responsible for checking her ID before letting her consume liquor.
Gameshi
People remember Ghomeshi being acquitted on the sexual assault charges, but seem to forget that he was also a serial sexual harasser at CBC. He was acquitted of the first, but never put on trial for the latter.
He would give unwanted "massages" to female staff, he would walk up behind them and grind his Ghomeshi against their behinds, he talked about them in vulgar and demeaning ways. And when numerous female staff at the CBC complained about him and were told, basically, that if they didn't like it they could go elsewhere. He was "the talent", and they were their to service him. Ghomeshi was a pig to his female staff, and CBC were his enablers.
Ghomeshi's sexual assault trial was a case of prosecutorial incompetence. But Ghomeshi's workplace behavior is exactly the kind of thing #MeToo was supposed to be about.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-protected-jian-ghomeshi-say-two-ex-colleagues-with-new-harassment-claims -k
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