Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
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The society in which we belong to does not free from the problems and to the improvement of society, one must become forward to eradicating these difficulties. In such a case, the inhabitants especially the reformers play an important role as they know exactly what’s going on the society. However, the reformers always cannot make address what’s going wrong with society if there is no outburst of any serious issues or scandals. Therefore, the outburst of a scandal or a severe issue has drawn the attention of the inhabitants about the problems that are harming society.

Undoubtedly, there is no such society, which is free from difficulties. Sometimes folks or reformers of the society can address these difficulties and can take appropriate action to resolve these. Sometimes, reformers or the speaker even could not know actually what’s going wrong with their atmosphere if there is no eruption of such difficulties. Such an outbreak opens their eyes to what to do to eliminate these scandals to assure harmony in society. For instance, one could not even imagine, what’s did most of the Arab dictators (i.e. Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, etc) in the name of democracy, if the inhabitants of those countries’, more specifically, the street vendor in the capital of Tunisia do not burst his anger to the brutality of the ruler of his countries through burning his own body. As a result, peoples are come in the street of those countries and exposes their anger to the cruelty of the ruling party and their administration, whose are oppressed them for a long time, which intrigued the local and international reformers to mediating with the dictators to calm their citizens and make peace in their country.

Now, look at the recent movement on #me_too especially in the Hollywood, even the most serious critic of the Hollywood could not believe what is going on in Hollywood for a year of years if one of famous movie queen did not open his mouth about the sexual scandal of the most powerful film producer. Such an outburst of scandal made a weave in the social platform and news media within a second with the hashtag #me_too (known as the #me_too movement). As a consequence, the women around the world exposes their anger what they experienced in their daily life from the dominant gender. This movement inspires all of the women to outburst them if they face any harassment in their life and profession. Thus, if the film star fears to open her mouth, then no one would imagine what women face in their daily life whatever their profession is.
Tour de France, the most prestigious tournament for the cyclist, for which every professional cyclist doing hard work every day. Andrew Armstrong was not different from the cyclist who aiming to win this prestigious event. As a result of his determination and hard work, he was able to make history by winning the Tour de France for a record 7 times. However, everyone was astonished, when the truth is coming forward and they came to know that the drugs were the only reason for his great success. If such a scandal did not expose to the air, people will not know what was the actual reason for such incredible success. Therefore, sometimes scandal drawn our attention to the problem associated around us that anyhow skips the eyes of the reformers.

Briefly, sometimes the outburst of the scandal might be drawn the attention of the reformers to the problems society that is anyhow avoiding their eyes and resolve these difficulties through taking appropriate action to make ensure harmony in the society.