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5 Reasons Men Are Reluctant to Get on the Sexual Harassment Bandwagon

2017-11-04

[Townhall] Since the Harvey Weinstein case broke into the news, we’ve been deluged with stories about women who were sexually harassed, raped or molested in Hollywood and elsewhere.

This is not a bad thing. Let me repeat that: this is not a bad thing.

Exposing abuse to sunlight is the best way to stop it. Moreover, if we didn’t have a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, I’d be okay with rapists being impaled on a sharp stick. Using a position of power to pressure a woman into sex or more creepily, into watching you do vile things to a potted plant is gross and criminal.

That being said, a lot of men are leery of the glut of accusations going on right now. This is something a lot of men think, but don’t want to say because they’re afraid they’ll catch flak over it. However, if you are a man, there are things that catch your attention about this wave of sexual harassment complaints that the opposite gender may not initially think about...

1. We keep defining sexual harassment down:
2. Sexual harassment is often dependent on the feelings the woman involved has about the man doing it:
3. Men have to be the pursuers:
4. Many women do lie about rape and sexual harassment:
5. The latest round of complaints about sexual harassment are shot through with man-hating:

Posted by:Besoeker

#8 Hmm, I was expecting something different from the article.
Rather a lot of the Casting couch has been male on male...

There are not enough men coming forward.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-11-04 20:49

#7 Thing about 6, g(r)om, is that they're in a 'target rich environment'. When matters thin out, they start looking for other things to shoot.

(a) We'll have to start shooting back sooner or later anyway.
(b) And who knows, maybe some of these feminist males will get what feminism is all about nowadays.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-04 12:35

#6 You need the kind of evidence that will stand up in court, not just some bimbo saying the guy grabbed her butt.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-04 11:39

#5 ...the thing about the "Terror" is that eventually members of the Committees of Public Safety also get a trip to madame guillotine.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-04 11:32

#4 Thing about 6, g(r)om, is that they're in a 'target rich environment'. When matters thin out, they start looking for other things to shoot.

Posted by: ed in texas 2017-11-04 10:22

#3 Sure 1 - 5 is weighty. But, to me, they're outweighed by (6): they use it mostly against their own.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-04 09:56

#2 The thing that concerns me the most in this situation is how decades old accusations are all of a sudden treated as gospel truth.

How many women were sexually harassed, raped or molested at Studio 54 or backstage at any rock concert of the '70s?

What happens when the female WAS asking for it?

This whole thing seems to smell like a swamp.

Posted by: AlanC 2017-11-04 09:38

#1 In the meantime, pass the popcorn. Don't you just like a good Alinsky - make them live up to their own principles.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-04 08:48

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