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God but there is something deeply unpleasant about the #MeToo movement. It is vicious, it is unforgiving, it is organized and it is relentless: All that we knew.

But its hypocrisy is, well, breathtaking.

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Just look at the reaction to Jian Ghomeshi’s essay last week in The New York Review of Books.

Whatever one thinks of the writing or the degree to which the former CBC star, in the modern parlance, “owns” what happened to him, the piece was the first time in four years he has opened his mouth to offer his view of his spectacular downfall.

(And yes, he could have testified in his own defence at his 2016 criminal trial, at which he was acquitted, but by then, his accusers had been so thoroughly discredited it wasn’t necessary.)

Ghomeshi was of course excoriated for daring to open his mouth.

And it’s not that four years in exile is not enough. For #MeToo, there simply is no road back from an allegation of sexual assault. An accused man must pay forever. He will pay forever.