Cuomo 형제, 성학대범죄 혐의로 곤욕을 치르고 있네, 성학대의 경계선은 어디까지 인가?
CNN의 중진앵커, Chris Cuomo가 ABC News의 전직 여성 매니저를 성학대했다고 금요일 폭로 당해 곤욕을 치르고 있다. 약한달전에는 그의 형이자, 뉴욕주 지사였던 Andrew Cuomo가 성폭력을 그의 여성보좌관에 휘둘러 결국 주지사직을 사임하는 사건으로 전미국이 떠들썩 했었는데, 오늘은 ABC News의 전직 매니져가 폭로한 것이다.
뉴욕타임스의 주요 뉴스섹션에, 전직 ABC와 CBS 뉴스최고 책임자였던 Shelley Ross가 기고한 Article에 의하면, 현재 CNN의 중진앵커이자, 동생 Chris Cuomo가 2005년도에 맨허탄에서 직장동료들을 위한 파티가 끝나고 헤여지는 과정에서 그녀의 중요 부위(엉덩이)를 붙잡고 흔들었다고 폭로한 것이다.
" Mr. Cuomo가 Upper West Side bar에 들어오면서, 나를 보자 나에게 와서 강한 허깅을 하면서 인사를 나누는 사이, 한쪽손이 나의 궁둥이를 꽉붙들고 마치 볼에 키스를 하듯이 쥐어짰었다"라고 폭로기사를 쓴 것이다.
그러면서 그녀는 설명하기를 " 당신이 지금은 내 보스가 아니기 때문에 이렇게 할수있다고 생각한다" 설명까지 했다는 것이다. 이에 그녀는 즉시 " 아니야 절대로 그럴수는 없어"라고 쏘아 부치면서, 마침 옆에 있던 그녀의 남편과 함께 그를 밀쳐냈었다고 설명했다.
그사건이 있은후, Shelley Ross는 Cuomo로 부터 정말로 '챙피한짖'을 했다는 이메일을 받았는데, 또한 그는 나의 사랑하는 남편과 나에게 "그렇게 난처한 꼴을 당하게 한것에 대해 정중히 사과한다라고 설명했다고 적었다.
Ross는 설명하기를 그와같은 그의 사과를 "법적으로 그리고 그에 대한 도덕적 책임을피하기위해 면피용 사과였던것으로 항상 생각해 왔었다"고 적었다. 칼럼의 제목은 " Chris Cuomo가 나를 성적학대를 했었다. 나는 그가 이사건을 무마하기위해 사회적 지위를 사용하여 해결하기를 희망했던것으로 알고 있다."라고 썼다.
나는 개인적으로 누가 잘하고 잘못한것인가에 대한 평가를 내릴수는 없다. 그동안 억눌려왔던 여성의 지위가 사회적으로 평등화 되면서, 남자들위주의 사회가 양성평등화로 변화하는 과정에서 전에는 아무렇치도 않게 넘겼던 처신과 행동들이 성적학대로 표현되는 혼동속에서 일어나는 사건으로 보지만, 남자들의 사회적, 특히 처신과 행동에 신경을 좀더 써서, 오해를 사는일이 없도록 해야하지 않을까.
ALBANY - CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was accused of sexual harassment Friday by a former female manager at ABC News — a month after his older brother Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned for sexual harassing women aides.
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Shelley Ross, a former executive producer at ABC and CBS, wrote that the younger Cuomo grabbed her buttocks at a going-away party for a colleague at a Manhattan bar in 2005.
"When Mr. Cuomo entered the Upper West Side bar, he walked toward me and greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock," she wrote.
She said he commented: “I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss.”
And she said she responded, “No you can’t,” and pushed him away with her husband at her side.
Soon after, Ross wrote, she received the email from Cuomo about being “ashamed," and he apologized to my " 'very good and noble husband' and then to me for 'even putting you in such a position.' "
Ross said she has always viewed the apology "an attempt to provide himself with legal and moral coverage to evade accountability."
The column was titled: "Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Me. I Hope He’ll Use His Power to Make Change."
No one is saying it's rape. They're saying the accusations against Andrew Cuomo matter.
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In a statement obtained by USA TODAY and originally given to the Times, Cuomo said he apologized at the time.
“As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it,” he said.
The sexual harassment allegations are the first publicly against the high-profile broadcaster and comes after he became embroiled in the scandal that led to Andrew Cuomo's resignation Aug. 24.
Ross wrote that she was not looking to see Cuomo fired, but, "rather, this is an opportunity for him and his employer to show what accountability can look like in the #MeToo era."
She said she came forward after being struck by how Cuomo handled his brother's troubles and after he was seen wearing a "Truth" shirt soon after the governor resigned.
"For me, his statement of profound concern about sexual harassment and his “Truth” T-shirt were provocations in this era of personal accountability," Ross wrote.
An investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James interviewed Chris because he had privately counseled his brother in calls with the governor's top aides on how to initially fight the sexual harassment allegations against him.
In May, the younger Cuomo acknowledged on air that he had talked to his brother and members of his staff in an advisory capacity.
CNN said Chris Cuomo should not have done so because of his role as a journalist, and he later apologized on the air for it.
Soon after Cuomo announced his resignation, Chris Cuomo said on the air that his brother did the right thing and that he encouraged him to do so.
"I'm not an adviser. I'm a brother," he said Aug. 16.
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"I was there to listen and offer my take. And my advice to my brother was simple and consistent: Own what you did. Tell people what you can do to be better. Be contrite. And finally, accept that it doesn't matter what you intended. What matters is how your actions and words were perceived."
Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to the governor who accused him of sexually inappropriate comments and groping, praised Ross for telling her story.
"Thank you Shelley Ross. Your focus on accountability is exactly right," she wrote on Twitter. "@ChrisCuomo will you hold yourself accountable?"
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