1/ What is problematic about out explosive news stories like Noel Clarke is that yes, the world should know, and I’m glad it does

But it just makes it harder for the women whose sexual harassment perpetrators aren’t famous

2/ Victims now feel enormous pressure to go to the press or otherwise feel ignored

If an organisation isn’t being publicly shamed for sexual harassment - then often no one cares that much internally

One lone voice is easy to ignore and silence

3/ I’m not surprised one bit BAFTA knew all about the sexual harassment allegations

That’s usually how it is - women scrambling around for months and years trying to be heard and believed

Many organisations will have DAMNING email trails of them mishandling sexual misconduct

4/ I spoke to a women recently who had been raped, in a famous organisation

She’s exhausted writing internal emails for years, begging the organisation to take action

Because she’s still employed, I have to tell her that if she spoke to the press about it- she could be sacked

5/ She can’t risk that.

Her mental health is a wreck and talking to the press comes with all kinds of risk, opposition lawyers will SEIZE on it to argue the woman just wanted attention etc and journalists can always say their trauma, just isn’t a newsworthy ‘story’

6/ You’d think more organisations would worry about negative press and public scrutiny

But this is highly unlikely unless the perpetrator is famous or well known

So news stories like this can serves to just disempower victims further