Why Sarah Silverman should be seen as being complicit in Louis CK's sexual misconduct scandal

The Guardian

Silverman's revelation to Howard Stern on Monday that her friend Louis CK would masturbate in front of her with her consent begs the question: Why it took so long to speak out about that experience? "If she knew that Louis CK had a predilection for masturbating publicly and did not say anything when (comedian Rebecca) Corry made her original accusation and was abused online and sneered at by people who knew her and Louis CK, then she was always involved. Because she was complicit," says Hadley Freeman. "Let’s recap here, I say, putting on my Miss Marple hat. Louis CK had masturbated in front of Silverman multiple times. He had also done this in front of her sister, as Laura Silverman confirmed last year on Twitter. So, when Louis CK was insisting he definitely did not harass anyone, was there no part of Silverman that suspected he might be lying? How would that thought process even go? 'Yeah, sure, Louis asks if he can beat it in front of me all the time and he’s done it in front of my sister loads. But these other women claiming he does it in front of them? That doesn’t sound like my friend at all. Carry on, everyone!'"