I think it's a massive circle jerk of morons.
Tom Jones molested me 20 years ago!
I think it's a massive circle jerk of morons.
Tom Jones molested me 20 years ago!
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A more balanced view:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...101-story.html
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I have mixed feelings about the whole thing.
On one hand, there are clearly lots of instances of workplace harassment, intimidation and violence which went unpunished, and the victims have every right to seek redress.
I'm not sure whether I think there is meaning in specifically identifying it as "sexual" harassment, intimidation, and violence. On one hand, we do as a society traditionally make that distinction; sexual assault is a separate crime from assault in every western nation I can think of.
On the other hand, it restricts the pool of likely victims and perpetrators in a really specific way. It also means that everyone who was intimidated or harassed or threatened, in situations where that was likely because massive power imbalances are the rule and not the exception, is going to get left out in the cold by this particular cleansing.
It also poses the problem of whether unsupported accusations are sufficient to destroy a career etc.
This ties in, in a very uncomfortable way in my opinion, with the whole "believe her" theme that runs through sexual assault cases in general, in which people are encouraged to uncritically accept accusations by women, against men.
So I find the issue complex and troubling. On one hand there's obvious creeps engaged in criminal and despicable behaviour and lots of that is finally coming to light after they protected themselves for years or decades with wealth and/or the support of business or political or personal allies.
On the other hand, we're seeing a feeding frenzy of highly gendered accusations and punishments and that kind of atmosphere strikes me as highly prone to abuse - in particular my experience is that there is a large wing of the feminist movement which absolutely cannot be trusted with unfettered power, and in a sense that's what this looks to be very rapidly developing in to.
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https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....ilding-a-skiff
Early Christmas present for you: https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/ff26524...-held-the.html WaPo is also getting in on the action, but it's behind a paywall and I'm not giving those fuckers a dime.
Same thing happened to me. Not as much fun as the jokesters think it would be.
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