ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

Men are scared, and feminists are delighted. But the urge to call out and punish male sexual transgression is bound to clash with an inescapable truth: We’re all in this together, men and women.

Consider what’s happening in the capital of Florida. Female staffers and lobbyists have found “many male legislators will no longer meet with them privately,” reported The Miami Herald. “I had a senator say, ‘I need my aide here in the room because I need a chaperone,’ ” lobbyist Jennifer Green told the paper. “I said, ‘Senator, why do you need a chaperone? . . . Do you feel uncomfortable around me?’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘anyone can say anything with the door shut.’ ”

“I’m getting the feeling that we’re going back 20 years as female professionals,” said Green, who owns her company. “I fully anticipate I’m going to be competing with another firm that is currently owned by some male, and the deciding factor is going to be: ‘You don’t want to hire a female lobbying firm in this environment.’ ”

This kind of thinking is catching on in aggressively P.C. Silicon Valley, where men are taking to message boards like Reddit to express interest in sex segregation — sometimes labeled “Men Going Their Own Way,” or the “Man-o-Sphere.” How will that work out for women in the tech industry, where they already face substantial challenges?

Across industries, “Several major companies have told us they are now limiting travel between the genders,” Johnny Taylor, president of the Society for Human Resource Management, told the Chicago Tribune, citing execs who tell men not to go on business trips or share rental cars with women co-workers. UCLA psychologist Kim Elsesser, the author of “Sex and the Office,” sees a nascent “sex partition.” If men start to back away from women, at least in professional settings, it’s difficult to see how that will aid the feminist cause.

As is characteristic of movements led by the left in general, #MeToo faces the prospect of being seen to push too far, too fast. Not long ago, the British magazine The Spectator depicted the cause a feminist Reformation, with a modern woman nailing her demands to the door of a church like Martin Luther. These days the entirely justified anger and calls for change are venturing into iconoclasm: Let’s knock over some innocent statues and shatter all those stained-glass windows!

‘Several major companies have told us they are now limiting travel between the genders’

Outraged feminists triggered by “Thérèse Dreaming,” a suggestive 1938 painting of a clothed pubescent girl by the Polish-French artist Balthus, demanded the Metropolitan Museum of Art remove it. (The Met refused, to its credit). Moms are dressing their sons in humiliating “the Future is Female” T-shirts. The women’s Web site Bustle banned the word “flattering” because it implies there’s an ideal shape for a woman, and we all know women aren’t interested in looks.

Writing in The American Interest, Claire Berlinski calls the #MeToo movement “a frenzied extrajudicial warlock hunt that does not pause to parse the difference between rape and stupidity” and “a classic moral panic, one that is ultimately as dangerous to women as to men.” She tells a story about how she just discovered she has a new power: the power to ruin the career of a professor she knew at Oxford who grabbed her butt 20 years ago while drunk at a party. “I was amused and flattered,” she writes, saying, “I knew full well he’d been dying to do that. Our tutorials — which took place one-on-one with no chaperones — were livelier intellectually for that sublimated undercurrent. He was an Oxford don and so had power over me . . . But I also had power over him — power sufficient to cause a venerable don to make a perfect fool of himself at a Christmas party. Unsurprisingly, I loved having that power.”

Reformers should keep her underlying point in mind: Change may be good, but be wary of unintended consequences. Turning men and women into hostile opposing camps is not going to be good for either sex.

Big Kahuna

Western women have had it so good for so long and now they are about to mess everything up, much like the multi millionaire NFL leftist blacks are doing with their disgusting kneebending when they live a life of kings!!. Now if these pinhead feminists really wanted to make a statement about injustices they would nail their demands to every door of every mosque in the U.S. and demand that islam quit treating women as 3rd class citizens and quit mutilating young girls clitorisis and acting like barbarians. That one show of force by womenkind would show us that they are really serious about women's rights and a lot of men would get behind them. But now, they are running another scam enterprise and most men don't give a damn about their phony causes like #metoo or#methree or #mefour!!.

debeda

I don't blame men for this. I had asked in another thread who protects young men in the workplace. But this is just as stupid as blacks now asking for segregated dorms and classrooms at colleges. Women have struggled for years to be equally treated in the workplace. Now they're going all victim mode. Weinstein is a good example to use. He actually never raped any of the young women. He did coerce them. They wanted something from him and he wanted something from them. They could've said no and walked out. Is old Harvey a hound and a pig? Yep. But not a rapist. Same with all these women who are "harassed " by conversations. So extricate yourself from the conversation. We are women. Are we not adults? Are we powerless? Please. So tired of the victim society. All this fadoodle is over the top ridiculous. And REAL victims out there aren't given a thought. Are we this bored and jaded as a society that we have to make things up to be "triggered " about?

debeda

Agreed.

maureenthannon

This reminds me of something. Remember, MLK Jr.'s Dream. that his children and grandchildren would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Today's liberals have totally rejected MLK's Dream, they want just the opposite. They want people to be judged by their skin color,gender, and sexual preferences, NOT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER!! To Libs, ANYTHING that a white, heterosexual male does IS EVIL, because of his race/gender/ seual orientation ANYTHING that a black, LGBT does is good because of their race/gender/sexual orientation. For most of my life, I've found it offensive that the LEFT feel that they have to lower the standards for women and minorities to be able to compete with white males. I don't see how any black/woman/LGBT is not offended by being told that we're can't do as well as white men on our own, so we need the bar lowered to make it easy enough to compete.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

I agree totally, you nailed it. As a woman ,This topic bothered me as most of the claims seemed overdone. Giving women this power to destroy mens lives, with just a word, unverified was bound to bring out some hateful attention seeking, resentful members of my sex. It was also inevitable that it would be used to destroy men politically. As far a furthering the equality cause, these women who were involved to further their careers, if equal, must accept the consequence of such a decision, even if it failed to promote them. And yes there are real victims, who probably wont come foward, as this has become a sideshow.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

And furthermore they make us all look like dumb tramps.

waltmoreno

And your reply, in turn reminds me of a piece recently written by Dr. Kent Bailey entitled "The Warrior King". Here's the last few paragraphs of his excellent article.

"One of the most stupid and destructive PC delusions out there is that if America’s toxic white males were to disappear tomorrow the country would ascend to a higher moral level, peace on earth would reign, and the era of woman would come to full fruition. All but the most militant feminists will concede that the male mind was at the forefront of the slow and arduous trek from the earliest precultural stages of humanity to the first-world, highly technological civilizations of today, but it seems Modern Woman does not need us guys anymore. She is ready to take over. Just ask any Democrat.

Modern Woman is “equal” to men in every respect – that is, except she cannot and really does not naturally want to compete head-to-head with men on a level playing field. She still wants and needs a residue of feminized and compliant men to fight the wars, keep the railroads running, police the streets and enforce silly and draconian PC “laws” that, ironically, go against male interests. That is, she is everyman’s “equal” as long as the entire American system is transformed into an awkward and gigantic “safe zone” where she can strut and act tough like Megyn Kelly did questioning Trump during the pre-election debates.

The last thing Modern Woman wants is true “equality” vis-à-vis the male gender. There would be no women’s golf – just golf; no women’s tennis – just tennis; no women’s classes – just classes; no female Olympics – just Olympics; no women’s standards in the military – just standards; and so on. That would mean the elaborate and multifaceted protections women enjoy in American society would be nonexistent. As a proud father of a daughter and lucky husband of a beautiful and accomplished wife, I am all for fair and reasonable protections for women. In fact, my daughter and wife live in my personal zone of protection, and they love me for it. But unearned strutting privileges, pushing men out of society, or expecting them to simply move aside while you experiment with running the country is pure PC madness."


Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2018/01/the-warrior-king-1-year-into-his-reign/#moZghgcXD7bYlcrg.99

Alicia Loc: NYC

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I recall the same feminist movement in the 60s. It didn't upset the society too much; just put men on their best manners. At that time, I thought it was ridiculous that women fell into wearing slacks suits. For a couple of years I couldn't purchase a suit with a skirt. Ended up making my own. At that time women were going into jobs such as truck driving and also burning their bras. That only lasted a couple of years before women were finally allowed into executive jobs. They did have to prove themselves though.

I believe this has been taken too far when a man can be accused of sexual advances that are ten or more years old. Some of the complaints are ridiculous. I learned how to skirt a desk to avoid contact but never considered reporting anyone. At this time it's just necessary for the majority of women to work together because that's the only way they can avoid being ignored. At this time they are speaking up because their subjugation has been going on for much too many years. Just consider: who created the religious rules? Certainly not the women!

I became quite annoyed when being looked upon purely as asexual conquest and not at all appreciated for my thoughts. My spouses never looked at me in those terms and I did look down on those women to accepted the subservient position. Bu they were trained for that position. SAD. Every change begins with a revolution but, in cases like this, perhaps it is necessary.

Question: Why should it be left up to men in government to decide what is best for women regarding birth control?

Dr. Evil Loc: In Your Face

Blah, Blah, Blah. The likes of you are part of the problem. Women ain't Gods.

guitarman Loc: University Park, Florida

Straight white successful males are the most discriminated against group in the country.

Gatsby

Thus the "Pence Rule", soon to be amended from "dine with" to "meet with".

Constantly play the defense: Always have an honest witness on hand!

Is that really the path we must choose?

debeda

Yep and for the coercion thing hookers. Ya know sex for favors...

debeda

TRUE STORY!!!

bahmer

The liberals and their followers so often shoot themselves in the foot and wonder what happened to their well laid plans.