[The Wire] While everyone was having a panic attack because a high school kid smiled at a Native American, a far more egregious act went entirely unnoticed. Owen Shroyer, a reporter with Infowars, was sexually assaulted by a demonstrator at the Women's March. The act occurred on camera and the woman openly admitted to it.
Put aside however you may feel about Infowars. That should make no difference here at all. The facts remain the same. A woman walked over to Shroyer and groped his genitals, announced that she had "grabbed [him] by the balls," and then proudly said "yes" when asked if she had committed sexual assault. Meanwhile a group of police officers stood literally feet from the incident and did not intervene or arrest the sex predator.
I need not point out the obvious, but I will. If the roles had been reversed and a man walked over to a woman, grabbed her genitals, laughed about it, and then bragged that he'd committed sexual assault and wouldn't be arrested, there would hysterical outrage across the country. If the deed was politically motivated and the man had assaulted the woman because he disagreed with her liberal ideas, the reaction would be apocalyptic in scale. The man's name and face would be plastered on every newscast. The "toxic masculinity" thinkpieces would rain down on our heads like hail. And the man would certainly be arrested.
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