I get your point, I do! But as I've said before - easier said than done.
And starting your own business is certainly not easy, nor is everyone cut out to do it.
I still wager that most people just shrugged him off as "Pete being Pete" (and obvs were not aware of how much further he took tit).
And, as some of you know, I speak from the perspective of someone who was continually sexually harassed by a former boss of a state-run facility as an early 20-something vulnerable college-aged girl.
I had to stay in the job bc I needed the money coupled with the dynamics of how I got hired (as a recommendation from a professor who taught many of my degree-specific courses who was friends w/ my boss and wasn't anything like him and clueless about how he really was)... AND all of the ladies I worked with just shrugged off my boss as "Mark just being Mark" not realizing the full extent of what he'd do or say to me. (I was able to get out of it bc I graduated and moved to Orlando)
In short, none of this is ever easy, or has a simple hindsight fix.
The emotional damage done by abusers runs for a lifetime, there is no way to wash it away, only methods to deal with the pain when it rises up.
From the way you talk I believe you've found strength and a way of interpreting the past. At least I hope you have.
Pete does not deserve to keep a folder of people he's harmed without any repercussions... and everyone agrees, but it takes TIME and healing for the victims to be able to step up, if they ever do.
Part of the abuse is a control factor laid down to make the victim feel as though they're in the wrong and undeserving. In many ways it is much harder to break through that than it is to realize one has been abused. As
viewers we saw Pete exerting this with his insults and name calling on air. That was just the tip of the iceberg of what happened when the camera is off.
Look at
@Mando above. Clearly he is a victim, but the tone he took saying he's lose a court case indicates he thinks he did something wrong, that he's not worthy of justice.
(The agreement with Pete was interesting but not a pass to abuse. Judges are smart and would see this.)
Due to the emotional impact and the amount of time it takes a victim to step up and acknowledge wrong was done and it wasn't their own fault,
a 7 year statute of limitations on accusing abusers makes no sense. I realize the time limit is there to protect against loss of memory and evidence, but when it comes to abuse that crap is hard to forget or get wrong.
