Goedele Liekens is being dealt with firmly after her empty chatter in the talk show HLF8. She called for cases of transgressive behavior to be kept out of the media.
According to Goedele Liekens, it is very important that more attention is paid to a safe working culture, but at the same time she believes that cases of transgressive behavior should be kept out of the media. Nice and contradictory: it is precisely because of the media attention to misconduct that we are moving towards a safer working environment.
Gudula in the breach
Goedele made her statements on Monday evening in HLF8, where she sat at the table next to Jack van Gelder, who behaved questionably in his time at NOS Sport. She jumped very flashy in the breach for her colleague: “I feel that Jack now has to answer for himself and that turns the presumption of innocence.”
Terrible, she thinks. “Now it is: Jack is guilty and now he has to explain that he is therefore, therefore and therefore not guilty. That is exactly what Tom Egbers has to do and I think it is so bad that we play these kinds of things that are very important for our society through the media.”
‘Who are we?’
So Goedele wants to deal with matters that are very important for our society out of the sight of society. “No one benefits from it. Not the victims or the possible victims and certainly not the possible perpetrators, so let’s stop playing that through the media. Really, that brings us nothing, only victims.”
Goedele thinks it’s terrible for men like Jack and Tom. “An affair that ends badly: who are we to judge what happened? We do not know.”
‘Honey’
AD opinion diva Angela de Jong thinks it’s stupid. “She thinks that the whole story should not go out. That had to be resolved internally. Then I think: yes, that’s just the crux, dear. That the alarm has been sounding for fifteen years or twenty years, but that no one picks it up and that nothing happens until it is in the media.”
She continues in the AD Media podcast: “Somehow I have the idea that you are only allowed to work at SBS when you think that it is all being exaggerated, that no one is safe anymore and that you should not complain if there is a cake baked and that colleagues do not want that. This is how it is handled.”
Himpathy
According to Angela, it seems that Goedele also has a so-called pick me girl is, which Hélène Hendriks is also accused of. “She is very fond of men. Van: This was all very normal and you just shouldn’t complain.”
In any case, Goedele shows himpathy, says NRC columnist Rinskje Koelewijn. “Goedele, who often sits at the table at Dutch talk shows, don’t ask me why, was eager to say something. When she finally got to speak, I immediately understood the new word I had learned: himpathy.”
‘Seems crazy’
Himpathy mainly means empathizing with the man instead of the woman who had to undergo his sexism and bullying, according to Pointer journalist Marieke Kuypers. That also applies to Goedele, says Rinskje: “She thought it was ridiculous that Jack van Gelder had to answer for himself at the table there.”
She continues: “If questions were asked about the issue at all, she found ‘please’ not in ‘the media’. Seems crazy. This is a media issue about media persons, where one of those media persons decides to appear in the media again after a week of TV silence. Then you can just ask something?”