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A male backlash against #MeToo is brewing
NY Post ^ | February 3, 2018 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 02/04/2018 5:40:16 AM PST by C19fan

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.’ ”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: busted; genderwars; karma; metoo
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To: C19fan

Well Scrooge all of that. As for me I ain’t a perv or such and will remain my relaxed self around women. If a situation seemingly appears inappropriate I’m outta there but otherwise I’m not putting up an overly protective wall if not necessary. Scrooge Lieberalism and Feminism contortions of self moronic behaviors.


61 posted on 02/04/2018 6:50:14 AM PST by tflabo (I)
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To: C19fan

Why do the “challenges” women face ALWAYS require action by OTHERS to meet? The very history of women in in what were traditional male areas is all the proof anyone needs that they can’t just stfu and DO IT. They need judges, lawyers and cops, they need timeouts, lowered standards and special consideration all along the line. Who the hell can take them seriously anymore and WHY?


62 posted on 02/04/2018 6:52:01 AM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Liz

Let’s not confuse the issues.....some of the starlets are WILLINGto do whatever it takes.

These other cases came to light b/c they were NOT willing.....they said no......but Harvey forced himself on them.


Nearly all of them are willing to do it. Blowing the boss just isn’t a big deal to twenty something women in high powered industries like Hollywood and finance. We’re getting a lot of revisionist history and I just don’t believe all stories.


63 posted on 02/04/2018 6:54:31 AM PST by lodi90
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To: daler

If I were a rich man....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7BVr36bbs


64 posted on 02/04/2018 6:55:19 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wastoute

Turns out that the Bible was right too.
Judah conceded Tamar was more righteous than he was.


65 posted on 02/04/2018 7:03:50 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: tflabo

Well, I don’t know you position or affluence, but if you are a potential target by rank, resources or views, the first time you are set up, your views will change.


66 posted on 02/04/2018 7:04:13 AM PST by Truth29
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To: C19fan
I'm in my mid-50s and have been in various levels of management for most of my career. I have had zero issues in the workplace with women, whether they were my peers, my subordinates or my managers. The old cliche about the boss chasing his secretary around the desk went out with the days of "Mad Men."

I work for a rather large company (25,000 employees in U.S. alone) and this supposed culture of men preying on women in the workplace just doesn't exist. Of course, I can't speak for the cesspool of Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein types. Nor can I speak for government and the Bill Clinton and Kennedy types.

In the world of business however, we are too busy trying to hit our sales number and deliver goods and services at decent margin to fool around like they do in Hollywood and Congress.

That said, in this silly "me too" climate that the feminists are pushing on us, I can see a more cautious approach being taken to women in the workplace. Maybe we don't hire so many of them going forward - too much risk. Maybe some of them get stuck on the career ladder because men can no longer meet with them one-on-one and so they get bypassed for special projects that might lead to promotional opportunities. Maybe women are no longer invited to after work events (drinks with the guys) because who knows, one of them might have a drink too many and say or do something that is misconstrued later. Too much risk!

Maybe Mike Pence does have it right. Maybe no man should be alone with any woman he is not married to. This is definitely going to have an impact on the opportunities that women have in the workplace. There is no doubt about it.

Again, I will point out that I never had a problem in my workplace working with women and I've been there over 30 years. Over the years, I've worked with some wonderful women and on numerous occasions I've had one-on-ones with them (with the door closed) and have had lunches or even business dinners with them. Never did anything untoward happen. But maybe I was just lucky and maybe I've been pushing my luck all these years.

At this stage in my career, I can't afford a career ending situation as I'm unlikely to find a comparable position at my age in the industry I'm in.

So maybe I take the Mike Pence approach for now on.

67 posted on 02/04/2018 7:10:33 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: C19fan

Sexually aggressive women hardly ever get brought to account.


68 posted on 02/04/2018 7:15:52 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: ZOOKER

#WouldntBoinkYouWithAStolen#


69 posted on 02/04/2018 7:18:51 AM PST by karnage
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To: lodi90

as Cat Woman (Julie Newmar) said;

Puurrrfect.


70 posted on 02/04/2018 7:19:11 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Cowboy Bob

71 posted on 02/04/2018 7:26:40 AM PST by EEGator
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To: SamAdams76
"... Never did anything untoward happen. But maybe I was just lucky and maybe I've been pushing my luck all these years...

So maybe I take the Mike Pence approach for now on."

I think you might be on to something here.

Over a career, I've found that the phrase "Better safe than sorry", can have many applications.

72 posted on 02/04/2018 7:29:39 AM PST by skimbell
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To: C19fan

“many male legislators will no longer meet with them privately,”

The Mike Pence solution.

Welcome to the new puritanism. Conservative Christians are getting the last laugh. What a delicious irony.


73 posted on 02/04/2018 7:29:44 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Mr. Jeeves
An important point at the end of the article: "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.”

Making a fool of himself? How? Putting a lampshade on his head and dancing on a table? Clucking like a chicken?

Regards,

74 posted on 02/04/2018 7:29:54 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: fella
Good book/flick:


75 posted on 02/04/2018 7:31:39 AM PST by EEGator
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To: grumpygresh
Don’t think that there couldn’t be two feminists in the room with the guy?

Not even considering the 'male' feminists, you would have to even pick the witnesses carefully or possibly end up with pyjama boy.

76 posted on 02/04/2018 7:32:43 AM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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To: rellimpank
--I learned about 50 years ago (as a young shift boss in an underground mine) ,two rules , never to be violated in what I would call :professional" relationships-- A) --never touch the other person-- B)--never go into any such situation alone--always have a witness----

I wasn't aware that sexual harassment had been that much of an issue, 50 years ago in underground mines. Were "he-said-she-said" situations really that common back then, a mile below the surface?

Please do elucidate!

Regards,

77 posted on 02/04/2018 7:33:00 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: C19fan
They were teaching this in sexual harassment awareness training back in the ‘80’s. The left is just playing catchup.
78 posted on 02/04/2018 7:33:12 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yes, absolutely.

Men should not be screwing around, either.

I wish all of them would be old-fashioned and stop having sex any old time they want. BC pills made sex a free-for-all, and what have we gotten for it? Lots of bastard people who continue the trend.

Frankly, prostitution are more respectable than the freebies rampant today. They demand something for sex. “Respectable” women (LOL) give it away free and often get stuck with the bill. Stupid, immoral.


79 posted on 02/04/2018 7:35:25 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Cowboy Bob; ilovesarah2012
So is the opposite true? Any men who let’s himself be alone with a woman in a bedroom is a whore?

No. I think the term is "Male Prostitute."

No, the term is "John" (i.e., "client of a sex worker").

Regards,

80 posted on 02/04/2018 7:36:18 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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