Amardeep Parmar
Nov 8 · 2 min read

As a non-american yet constantly seeing Katie Hill articles above the fold on Medium, I’m baffled.

There seems to be a conflation of two different events at the time of her resignation.

Revenge porn is wrong and that is simple. Whoever leaked the photos should be investigated and taken to court.

However without the revenge porn, would she not have resigned anyway? She was accused of an affair with an underling. I agree with the House Ethics code and it’s likely to help many women who are pressured by people in power. She denies the allegations but then quits before being cleared. She admits to a relationship with a subordinate before becoming a representative, which is a technicality we would despise a man for using as a defence. If part of what she stands for is stopping people abusing power and she admits to doing so then resignation is correct.

The McDonald’s CEO was fired last week for a consensual relationship with a subordinate. When even McDonalds is enforcing standards to the very top of their company then why can we defend Katie Hill’s relationship if we are being fair. To me male or female, if you have an affair with a subordinate then you are on shaky ground and I question your judgment.

She absolutely deserves justice for the revenge porn but that doesn’t let her off for the affair. Of course she is going to focus on the part where she is the victim in her resignation because she is a politician. I see articles that claim she is perfect and men are evil which is why she resigned then other articles that deny anything wrong happened to her.

Being guilty of one thing does not exonerate you from your own mistakes and yet being guilty of your own mistakes does not exonerate those who wrong you.

    Amardeep Parmar

    Written by

    Here to be challenged and learn | Without hate, without fear