The excesses of the #MeToo movement have not only led to a culture of generalizing men as sexual predators, but also of generalizing women as helpless victims.
> It is inconsistent to celebrate groupies as emancipated party girls or influencers on one side, but then to emphasize their helplessness, cluelessness and inability to act whenever it is useful for the media’s smear campaigns.
It's been long enough since the Sexual Revolution that we've kind of forgotten that the old rules of sexual morality that they "emancipated" themselves from have always been there first and foremost to protect women from predatory men. Without that protection in place, we're painfully re-learning just why it was necessary.
"Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was." -- Donald Kingsbury
Thanks for putting my feelings about the legal principles surrounding this topic into words better than I could. It’s nice to know there are women out there (besides my wife) who believe in moral agency and self-responsibility. It’s too easy to get the impression that there aren’t any anymore. But hey, you proved me wrong. Good job. I loved it.
I'd be the first man to flail the skin off another guy, who rapes or abuses a woman. But I will also be the first person to call for those who falsely accuse someone of a crime (especially one as heinous as rape or sexual assault) to pay a price, as well - read fines and jail.
The disgraceful Christine Blasey Ford and her co-conspirators (read all the mettoo celebs, who took to the airwaves and openly slandered Kavanaugh), should be behind bars.
Additionally, accuser identities should not be hidden, except for cases involving children. However, if you're adult enough to attend a frat party or concert and are potentially going to ruin someone's life (to include jail time), then you have to be publicly identified.
Harvey Weinstein is another case, where your and Weiss' admonishments, over using personal agency, come into play. I will state again - if we have proof that he drugged, raped, forced sex on, or physically assaulted any woman, man, boy or girl then let me at him, I'll skin him alive then deliver him to the designated jail.
However, if you have women actors (adults) who knew he had a well used casting couch (and by all reports it was well known) and they still CHOOSE to put themselves in that situation and then CHOOSE to stay - in order to keep a job, get a part, or further a career - then they CHOSE to abandon their agency, by not getting up and walking out. Now if they did that and he grabbed them, prevented them from leaving and assaulted them, then refer back to my offer for skin removal and jail delivery services.
Here's another twist...if the actress knew that by submitting/agreeing to (by staying) the sexual acts, she would advance her career/get a part - isn't that a form of prostitution? And isn't the current woke dogma, that sex work is real work - an empowering and proud profession for women??? Is that only for the lower classes and drug addled or does it also apply to those in hollyweird.
As for these tabloids, papers, and media outlets/new shows, there should be laws on the books, that allow for easier liable suits to be brought against them. Share holders would not stand for the sleazy, sophomoric dog piling practices, if they lost hundreds of millions in law suits each year.
Of course those laws will never be passed/changed because the masses love the click bait and are happy to watch the carnage, so long as they get their dopamine hits every few seconds.
> It is inconsistent to celebrate groupies as emancipated party girls or influencers on one side, but then to emphasize their helplessness, cluelessness and inability to act whenever it is useful for the media’s smear campaigns.
It's been long enough since the Sexual Revolution that we've kind of forgotten that the old rules of sexual morality that they "emancipated" themselves from have always been there first and foremost to protect women from predatory men. Without that protection in place, we're painfully re-learning just why it was necessary.
"Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was." -- Donald Kingsbury
Thanks for putting my feelings about the legal principles surrounding this topic into words better than I could. It’s nice to know there are women out there (besides my wife) who believe in moral agency and self-responsibility. It’s too easy to get the impression that there aren’t any anymore. But hey, you proved me wrong. Good job. I loved it.
Excellent post!
I'd be the first man to flail the skin off another guy, who rapes or abuses a woman. But I will also be the first person to call for those who falsely accuse someone of a crime (especially one as heinous as rape or sexual assault) to pay a price, as well - read fines and jail.
The disgraceful Christine Blasey Ford and her co-conspirators (read all the mettoo celebs, who took to the airwaves and openly slandered Kavanaugh), should be behind bars.
Additionally, accuser identities should not be hidden, except for cases involving children. However, if you're adult enough to attend a frat party or concert and are potentially going to ruin someone's life (to include jail time), then you have to be publicly identified.
Harvey Weinstein is another case, where your and Weiss' admonishments, over using personal agency, come into play. I will state again - if we have proof that he drugged, raped, forced sex on, or physically assaulted any woman, man, boy or girl then let me at him, I'll skin him alive then deliver him to the designated jail.
However, if you have women actors (adults) who knew he had a well used casting couch (and by all reports it was well known) and they still CHOOSE to put themselves in that situation and then CHOOSE to stay - in order to keep a job, get a part, or further a career - then they CHOSE to abandon their agency, by not getting up and walking out. Now if they did that and he grabbed them, prevented them from leaving and assaulted them, then refer back to my offer for skin removal and jail delivery services.
Here's another twist...if the actress knew that by submitting/agreeing to (by staying) the sexual acts, she would advance her career/get a part - isn't that a form of prostitution? And isn't the current woke dogma, that sex work is real work - an empowering and proud profession for women??? Is that only for the lower classes and drug addled or does it also apply to those in hollyweird.
As for these tabloids, papers, and media outlets/new shows, there should be laws on the books, that allow for easier liable suits to be brought against them. Share holders would not stand for the sleazy, sophomoric dog piling practices, if they lost hundreds of millions in law suits each year.
Of course those laws will never be passed/changed because the masses love the click bait and are happy to watch the carnage, so long as they get their dopamine hits every few seconds.
Thanks again for the great post.