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| Victim Signalling and the Four Yorkshirewomyn |
| 2017-10-19 |
| h/t Instapundit ...This isn’t helpful. In fact, as with the redefinitions of date rape and consent so that sex you regret sometime next week is classified as rape, it weakens the fight against the actual bad guys. It does so because it leads to trivializing the crimes at the serious end of the spectrum. When people group together wolf-whistling and rape and claim that #AllMenAreGuilty, most men look at the list and think the shrieking harpies are exaggerating the whole thing because they (or friends/coworkers etc.) are probably guilty of stuff at the low end and can see that while it is perhaps not 100% harmless, it’s a petty irritation and no more so than the petty irritations they get from women. In fact many people (of both sexes) look at this and actively object because consensual flirtatious banter, sexual innuendo, poor taste jokes etc., which are what some of #MeToo crowd are complaining about, are ways to make the humdrum workday more pleasurable. The fact that a bunch of humorless upper-class sorts are lecturing the rest of us and taking away our fun really annoys and, in fact, potentially makes us more sympathetic to the real scumbags, such as certain famous Hollywood moguls, who actually do the real abuse instead of joke about it. In fact, as a certain FB friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, pointed out, this might be deliberate: |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 Welcome to the Interweb, where social media commentary is democratically available to anyone with access and value weighed in mass rather than advancing the social contract or human condition with quality. I'm guilty too! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-19 11:23 |