The case for sexual violence against rapper Sean combs, ‘Diddy’, which concluded on Wednesday with a mixed verdict, is the last example of a movement, the #Metoo, which began strongly but seems to have been relegated by the so -called ‘Cultural War’ of the USA has been acquitted of the most serious charges (sexual trafficking and organized crime) and, on the other hand, the jury has declared it guilty of transport to exercise pimperism, a result that its defense has seen as a victory, after a trial focused on their marathon orgias, dynamics of power and sexual consent.
The process has taken place thanks to the #Metoo Movement, emerged from the wave of complaints for sexual abuse in 2017 against the film producer Harvey Weinsteinwho received a condemnation in 2020 that became a symbol and gave rise to laws to facilitate that victims seek justice even in prescribed crimes.
An ex -partner of Diddy, singer Cassie Ventura, welcomed these rules to denounce the artist in November 2023, and although he resolved it in a day, paying him 20 million dollars, then complaints of abuses of other people who alerted the prosecution arrived.
Ventura has been the main witness of the trial and has described crudely how Diddy forced her to have sex with prostitutes, a story that was almost drowned among the screams of celebration of the rapper defenders because her idol prevents perpetuity and is exposed to a penalty of ‘only’ twenty years in jail.
Reverse after reverse
On the same dates on which a video was leaked that showed a beating from Diddy to Ventura, in April 2024, an appeal court revoked Weinstein’s conviction in New York that cemented the #MeToo movement and opened the door to the repetition of the trial.
He was not the only high profile defendant in ‘overlapping’ to #Metoo: in 2021, Bill Cosby was released after his sentence for sexual assault was invalidated, and in 2022 actor Johnny Depp won a defamation trial against his ex -wife, Amber Heard, who accused him of macho violence.
In 2023, the current US president, Donald Trump, was declared guilty of sexual abuse against writer E. Jean Carroll forced to compensate for calling her a liar, but the tycoon had no qualms about continuing to defame her and accumulating fines she still does not pay. The feeling of impunity, unthinkable five years ago, now plans on the environment.
Trump himself, paladin of the Cultural War against progressive ideas (‘Woke’) and a conservative wave that has women’s rights in the center, especially reproductive, has declared that he was considering Clemencia to Diddy if he was convicted.
After the repetition of Weinstein’s trial in New York this 2025, where women had to repeat their stories, which were minimized by the defense, the jury issued a partial verdict and the process was annulled.
If in the first trial against Weinstein there were celebrities giving support to the victims, protests at the courts of the court and ranks in each cold morning to attend as a public, in the repetition of the process that interest was not reproduced, a clear symptom that the movement lost bellows.
#Metoo fatigue?
“Unfortunately, I think people have become slightly insensitive to the #Metoo Movement,” the lawyer Sarena Towsend, representative of a complainant not included in that case, Ambra Gutierrez, said in statements to EFE, and that he alluded to a certain “fatigue.”
“As in many movements with true victims and excellent intentions, there were people who saw an opportunity and took advantage (of #MeToo), co -opting and expanding it to something that never pretended to be. I think that has lowered the message and scared away supports,” he said.
After the trial against Diddy, the leader of the National Center for the Law of Women (NWLC), Fatima Goss Ser serious, applauded the “survivors who chose to tell their stories, make accounts to her abuser and seek justice”, and considered that “a jury cannot take that away.”
The executive, who also directs the Time’s UP fund, to defend cases of abuse in Hollywood, said that Diddy’s case is part of a “pattern” of behavior related to power dynamics that use violence and “maintain a culture of silence and shame.”
“A long time after Sean comb stories are erased from public memory, it will depend on all of us to support survivors and demand that they have justice and repair,” he said.
The founder of the #Metoo, Tarana Burke, claimed in an interview with CNN that the important thing is not “how many people we can put in jail, but to overcome the US justice system.”
“I think the #MeToo has been bogged down by this narrative that it is about going to hunt people, and we have forgotten the thread that most survivors want to protect other survivors,” Burke said.
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