How a sexist system created and protected Russell Brand and David Walliams

Convicted rapist Russell Brand The scandals around Russell Brand and David Walliams have once again shone a light on the sexism that runs through society. The mainstream media presents Brand and Walliams as despicable individuals and admits that there is an industry-wide “problem”. But it doesn’t interrogate why such predators thrived and were protected for so long. Brand was enabled to operate in plain sight by institutions that allowed his crimes. A sexist society treated his views about women as a “joke” or “banter” and normalised sexual violence. The revelations come less than a year after the latest Epstein scandal—and less than two months after the Cornell 7. Violence against women flows from an oppression that is ingrained at every level of society. Women’s bodies are sexualised and men are encouraged to see women as objects that exist solely for their gratification. Brand and Walliams were standard-bearers of the “lad culture” of the 1990s and 2000s.

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