Evil has changed

In the old Turkish movies, we used to know who the harasser was even before the man walked in the door. A dark type, a dirty look, an unpleasant face... The script was so clear that the “bad” was obvious.
What about today?
Today, the real danger is hidden in those with ties, clean faces and those who preach “morality” on the screen.
Ironically, some of those who describe judicial cases every day, try to solve the anatomy of crime, lecture society on “honor” and “virtue” are the perpetrators of the same immorality. Those who commit the evil they report on in their own rooms, in their own messages, against their own colleagues...
And it's not just the press.
From artists to academics, from writers to teachers, people who stand in front of society, who are expected to set an example for society, even to guide it from time to time...
It turns out that there are masks behind these roles.
When that mask falls, we see that sometimes the gravest immoralities take place precisely in the rooms of those who give “moral lessons”.
In the past, there used to be a type of villain; today, most of them come out from among those with innocent faces, those who inspire confidence, those who talk about “women's rights”. Because evil is no longer hidden, it is only made up.
And women?
They are already in great pain when they are harassed, but the real persecution begins when they speak out.
Because this society still teaches that it is not the harasser who should be ashamed, but the woman who is harassed.
As soon as the woman says, “This happened to me,” she is once again accused:
“Aren't you ashamed to say that?”
“Now everyone will hear...”
“If you hadn't said it, if you had kept quiet...”
In other words, it is the woman who is shamed both for being harassed and for saying that she was harassed.
It is women who are marginalized, silenced and stigmatized when they speak out.
And so even screaming is criminalized.
Worse:
When a woman speaks out, it is the woman who pays the fine, not the harasser.
She is fired from her job, she is mobbed, she is left alone.
There are such cases that when a man commits the same crime, he is protected, taken care of and kept in his position; but when a woman tells about the harassment she has experienced, her name and surname are written openly, she is stigmatized and ostracized.
Because for the masculine order, it is not the perpetrator of the crime, but the woman who uncovers the crime that is a bigger problem.
In other words, the harasser is protected and the harassment is punished.
And then?
The woman either keeps silent... or loses her job... or, unfortunately, her life.
Today there is no longer a type of evil.
No ID, no copy.
Because evil no longer hides in the shadows; on the contrary, it appears under the brightest lights, center stage, in clean, trustworthy-looking faces and institutions.
Sometimes in the smile of a news anchor, sometimes in the seriousness of an academic, sometimes in the brilliance of an artist...
In short, evil no longer cloaks itself in darkness, but in light.
Perhaps the real question now is:
Has the mask of evil changed, or have we turned into a crowd that applauds and loves evil?