The left pretends #MeToo is empowering, but it's of victimhood and failure to stand up and do what's right.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-05-13 |
Facts
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| Yes the mating dance is awkward: men have to self humiliate and do the approaching and risk rejection. It's basically a game of escalating sexual harassment until copulation.
Women are supposed to reject to see if he'll debase himself through a lack of interest, or he was just trolling for an easy bedding. And men are supposed to keep demonstrating how wonderful he thinks she is, through persistence. And in that game of testing/persistence, some overplay their hands -- or some are socially awkward (and can't get the real signals from the fake ones), or are just assholes abusing their positions. Few women (or men for that matter) have existed that haven't had the awkward interests of someone that couldn't take a hint, foisted upon them. Or that might have mistood sincere rejection with the game. |
- #metoo is the hashtag of sheep, followers, and the antithesis of what we should want from our daughters and sons. It's for the people that didn't do the right thing at the time but will come forward once they have enough cover, no personal risk to themselves, and a great opportunity to pile in with the mob for attention without consequences.
- Look, I get it. There are people that abuse their positions, and that's wrong. But that's not a reason to give up our individuality and reasoning for sake of political correctness. A strong woman comes forward at the time. Weak women wait years or decades and only come out long after they got the job/promotion for their service rendered: whether that service was a quickie or just their silence. Never forget they only came out after others did the right thing and came out first, usually too late to help prevent it from happening to others, and often after the statute of limitations has run out. It also might be too late for there to be any good evidence, or for exoneration. Making it a cowardly act.
- But there's no courage, risk or consequences in being one of a bunch of sheep, coming out when it's popular and safety in the mob, and either piling on the finger pointing at one person -- or trying to dilute the message by saying, "It happened to me too, by someone else, in a totally different situation, 20 years ago, with no one who can confirm or contest it". That's not heroism -- it's me-tooism.
- You want heroism, it's the woman that risks her job calling out a problem abuser when the rest of the flock isn't bleating. It's the ones who risked their jobs or reputations first. Not the last person to join the crowd with pitchforks and torches.
- So I'm not judging them too negatively. I don't know their situation at the time. But I'm not going to celebrate them failing to do the right thing, and only piling on when there's no risk to them, and not much opportunity for exoneration for their accused.
Why?[edit | edit source]
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| People in a complex society have to deal with unwanted advances.
Yes, some of them go well past the slightly awkward to downright abusive of power. That's wrong! But we already have rules/laws/policies against that -- and we should enforce them wholeheartedly. But we shouldn't give up the rule of law, and replace it with the rule of guilt by accusation. |
- At least part of the purpose of getting good people to say "#metoo", is to prey on their good intentions, of saying "I stand with the bullied, abused, or just downright made uncomfortable" (as we all should).... that way, it looks like everyone is the victim of patriarchy. It's the next stage of the faux campus rape culture, or more faux cops shooting blacks for sport. Stop thinking, just follow the victims of the hour. Feel, don't think! Why? Because that exaggeration of the problem gives the SJW's a new tool of scorn.
- Once we see the pandemic problem of fictitious patriarchy run rampant, it not only excuses and dilutes the abuses of Hollywood and Democrats like Bill Clinton, the entire Kennedy clan, and so on (they're just victims of their own urges, like everyone else), but it demands the need of what? The heroes: the Social Justice Warriors to bully in the name of stopping bullying.
- The power to point at anyone they don't like, and put them in the metaphorical stocks and paint a scarlet V on their heads for the mob to lob tomatoes at. Public humiliation, or even firing at will. Bring the Salem witch trials into the modern social media era: that's what caring about your fellow man (or woman) looks like to them.
In other words, the goal is to lose all perspective -- and give a nearly unlimited power of the mob, to the few in the media or celebrities, to draw attention to injustices (imaged or real). What a great society that is.
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
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| Also remember the basics -- that in any sample there's a bell curve. Some of these cases are highly justified. Some are highly exaggerated or invented for attention. With most somewhere in between. So believing all victims (or the media) is not a sign of compassion, as the Duke LaCross Rape Case team proved, it's a sign of either gullibility or just pure man-hate. |
What I want?
- I want my daughters (or sons) to come out when no one else is. At the time, and not be anyone's victim.
- I want them to flip the bird at the flock of followers all fighting over who is the biggest loser (victim) for sympathy cred. And the same for those flocking to be the biggest sympathizer, stampeding toward the latest trend.
- I want them to not fall prey to political hashtags of me-tooism, on either side.
- To silently do the right thing when nobody is watching, instead of trying to be part of the the Human Microphone, and joining the latest fad-hate-mob is gathering rocks for the public stoning.
So while I have complete sympathy for the victims, and contempt for the abusers, you won't get a me-too outta me. And I don't think highly of the MeToo mob. I think highly of those that risked something to do the right thing.
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