Dear Friends of The Accused, Please Stop Publicly Shaming Victims

This time last year, the #MeToo movement was in formation, as the “Weinstein Files” became the virus that employed numerous outlets for the traffic-savvy task of publishing non-stop testimonies from victims, who were finally getting the opportunity to publicly shame their once untouchable abusers.

The entertainment industry was held hostage by the awkwardness of exposure that juxtaposed the glamorousness and shameless opulence of award season, with the long-standing tradition of shameful behavior conducted by the powerful, and enabled by the cowardly.

The only thing to do was to utilize the red carpet as the backdrop of all-black designer duds worn by A-listers, who arrived with the reinforcement of those who couldn’t relate to the privileged world of feted victims, but showed up as brief reminders of the vastness of this unbiased issue.

As the months went by, and the awards were safely tucked in the marble bathrooms of recipients, it was becoming increasingly clear that the initiatives that were formed by women with impressive clout and the determination to wield that power for good — still needed to be dutifully streamlined for the sake of cohesiveness and mandated inclusion.

Things were initially off to a bumpy start when actress Alyssa Milano failed to…