Yes, they did something wrong, but the punishment is disproportionate. They apologized, promised to change. It is not time to forgive some of the men who “dropped” it #MeToo?

It is an important question, one that should be asked by anyone who cares about justice. In an interview with Piers Morgan last week, Mr Kevin Spacey he sobbed at the treatment he had suffered, even as he admitted that his accusers—one or two of them—were telling the truth.

“There was media hype, but according to your confession, your behavior was grossly inappropriate”Morgan said in this interview. “Sometimes she was non-consensual.”

And the actor’s response: “I’m not going to act like that again”Spacey replied, adding: “And now we’re at a point where, “Okay, what do we do now?” I’m trying to find a path to redemption.”

As Spacey mourns the jobs he lost and his former colleagues who no longer speak to him, we should remember that the exact same fate hangs over the victims. Why do we have trouble forgiving the perpetrators of #MeToo? We should ask the question. But first, perhaps, we should ask why we have struggled for so long to forgive their victims, the paper aptly writes “Guardians”.

The list of “unforgivable victims” – avoided for many years – is long. Actresses Mira Sorvino, Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra and Sophie Dix have been blacklisted by Hollywood after rejecting Harvey Weinstein. Brendan Fraser’s career was put to the test for several decades when a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association snubbed him and complained. When young Jane Seymour rejects the flirtations – let’s put it elegantly – of a Hollywood bigwig, she’s told that if she misses even one word, she’ll never work on the planet again!

According to figures cited by the newspaper from sexual harassment cases that reached courtrooms in 2001, it found that more than 90% of staff who were victims of sexual harassment either lost their jobs or resigned.

In her landmark work “Sexual Harassment of Working Women,” published in 1979, Catherine MacKinnon documented that women were routinely fired in retaliation for rejecting a male supervisor. A “sexual intercourse was essential to their working relationship”, subordinates say they were told, “and without it women could not keep their jobs.”

Unequal societies tend to ostracize low-status victims. The drama of men like Spacey begs the existential question: is redemption ever possible? The defining battle of the #MeToo movement so far – Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp gives the answer: should we ostracize the accused or the accuser? The world isn’t perfect. Maybe we should pick our poison…