Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance enabled violence against women by not pressing charges against Harvey Weinstein in 2015.
Women who experience sexual and physical violence are often criticized for delays in reporting. But if institutional inaction and underhandedness are more common responses than not when women Then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. with then-New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton on Nov. 18, 2015, in New York City.
Admittedly, we have strongly patriarchal tendencies in both China and India, where my forebears lived. Still, the patriarchy is just as alive in the United States as it is in Asia. Western devaluation of women is insidious and entrenched in our societal institutions. on Harvey Weinstein’s appeal offers an excellent opportunity to interrogate the larger systems in the U.S. that enable violence against women.
Given Vance’s reported pattern in managing these cases of sexual violence, it is difficult not to interpret his current public opinions as saving face amidst cultural upheaval that has finally recognized decades of abuses against women, rather than a genuine effort to protect vulnerable women against male violence.
Vance’s belief that changing the law around trying sex crimes is necessary to combat sexual violence successfully is valuable. The judiciary can only operate within the confines of the law. Within that framing, ire directed at the New York State Court of Appeals is cathartic but unproductive. But that’s only part of it.
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