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"Don't you think it's terrible?" said the lady.
"Ah not really," I answered mellow as I get.
"But look what they've done," she spluttered.
"Most of the allegations haven't been tested in a court of law," I told her.
"That makes no difference."
"It does, yeah."
"What difference does it make?"
" Listen to me. These claims of molestation against Hollywood producers are primarily emanating from  ageing courtesans looking for a pension. That's what's going on. The actresses making their clearly coordinated claims don't pass the smell test. And let me tell you, if Harvey Weinstein was foolish enough to go into a hotel room with Dario Argento's daughter or with the lamentably post texilic Rosie McGowan, my concerns in that case would be solely for the safety of Harvey Weinstein. A billionaire alone with a girl like that is not necessarily the most powerful person in the room. I'm just saying. Then there's the slew of accusations against television presenters, none of which, mark you, have been subjected to legal scrutiny or defence before a Judge and Jury, and all of which, mark you, have a flavour of arbitrary vengefulness, score settling, cynical opportunism and extortion. Bringing us neatly to the ludicrous claims involving British politicians patting female journalists knees. These are faintly evocative of an episode of the Benny Hill show and would be absolutely hilarious except for the fact that the guys are killing themselves when their reputations are casually ruined by a tricoteuse media seemingly intent on replacing presumption of innocence with presumption of guilt. Oh! You might have noticed that an awful lot of the American cases are being handled by Gloria Allred or by Goria Allred's daughter who is Gloria Allred by another name."
"What's your point?" fumed my friend.
"Gloria Allred is a shakedown artist. Her actions are the conflict theory feminist equivalent of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's race baiting shakedowns of the 1980's and 1990's. Thirty years ago, Jesse Jackson had devised a business model using public sensitivity about black issues, whereby he went to large corporations, accused them of not employing enough black people, and accepted million dollar payments from them in order to go away. It was a classic shakedown and it made him a multi millionaire. Gloria Allred has devised a million dollar feminist shakedown of her own. Of course in her client Gretchen Carlson's case it was a twenty million dollar shakedown. But the point stands. The methodology is always the same. Gloria Allred coaches her clients, prepares a series of allegations against the targeted wealthy celebrity du jour, often based on tenuous uncorroborated claims of purely notional wrong doing, and then springs her trap with multiple claimants timed to emerge simultaneously in a media blitz. It's the perfect blagg. Gretchen Carlson's victim Roger Ailes is dead by the way. Would you shoot someone for twenty million dollars. Gloria Allred and Gretchen Carlson would. In fact they did. Two Labour Party politicians in England are dead as well following similar tosh talk character assassinations. It looks like the pols suicided. These shakedowns and score settlings come with a body count you know. They're not victimless crimes. And like I said so far none of these slanderous gold digging ruinations of reputations, none of them I say, have been tested in open court."
"That makes no difference," she cried.
"Do you really think it makes no difference?" I asked.
"None whatsoever."
"You think an allegation should be enough to destroy someone?"
"This sort of allegation, yes."
"In that case... who could stand?"