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What All Men Must Do Next
WBUR ^ | November 16, 2017 | Steven Wineman

Posted on 11/16/2017 5:28:48 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

Donald Trump. Bill O'Reilly. Harvey Weinstein. Michael Oreskes. Kevin Spacey. Casey Affleck. Louis C.K. Roy Moore. Larry Nassar. The list keeps growing, and we know that for every big name accused of sexual misconduct there are countless more in the stories of millions of women who have been coming forward to say “me too.”

In this moment, it is crucial for men to be speaking publicly and unequivocally in support of standards for sexual behavior based on respect, meaningful mutual consent, and awareness of differences in power. But the scope and depth of the problem require more than this.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; men; metoo; women
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I’m not doing a damn thing.


21 posted on 11/16/2017 5:45:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Liberal Hollywood and liberal pop culture has increasingly sexualized women and children for decades. Their shock at the the way predominantly liberal men treat women and children is the height of ignorance, at best.


22 posted on 11/16/2017 5:47:04 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

What the article author can do now—go �chop his d... off. He should feel much better, less “ guilty,” then.


23 posted on 11/16/2017 5:47:18 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (106–43 BCE))
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To: Rummyfan
Michael Oreskes is an American journalist. He worked at the New York Daily News before spending twenty years at The New York Times.

In their minds the locker room banter of the Billy Bush tape, is the same as the actual misdeed, especially when women come forth saying they were inappropriately touched by him.

24 posted on 11/16/2017 5:47:50 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“A 2014 study found that almost a third of college men said they’d force a woman to have sex if they were sure they would get away with it.”

Hardly revelatory. I imagine if the question were about robbery or even murder, the statistic would be similar. The issue isn’t exclusive to men, either. No need to demonize them. A sizable percentage of the population behaves itself only because it would get punished if it didn’t. That’s why there is law enforcement. It’s human nature, or just nature.


25 posted on 11/16/2017 5:48:10 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Robert DeLong

I ain’t so sure. It’s what the left itself called a teachable moment.

Ironically what guys like Roy Moore actually did (rather than were alleged to do) is what mores ought to look like.


26 posted on 11/16/2017 5:49:49 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
In this moment, it is crucial for men to be speaking publicly and unequivocally in support of standards for sexual behavior based on respect, meaningful mutual consent, and awareness of differences in power.

No, it isn't. It's critical for these whiny posers to shut the f___ up and quit pretending that every brush against their butt on the bus is an attempted rape. All we're doing is empowering a new class of (mostly fake) "victims." And more victims is the last thing this world needs.

Ladies: if a man tries to force you to have sex against your will, using FORCE, mind you, not just powerful words, then that is sexual assault. Anything else you can handle with a sharp word or at worst, a kick in the nuts. Grow up and manage your own lives like adults, instead of running to Teacher every time a mean old "bully" chants "London, London, I see France" at you.

27 posted on 11/16/2017 5:51:55 PM PST by IronJack
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
"What All Men Must Do Next"

I already did the wife tonight and now you tell me I'm still not done for the evening? Whew, a good man's work is never over.
28 posted on 11/16/2017 5:54:33 PM PST by Garth Tater (Gone Galt and I ain't coming back.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I ain’t so sure.

About what exactly?

29 posted on 11/16/2017 5:55:11 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Vermont Lt
Actually during the campaign there were no more than 12 accusers.

And they all miraculously disappeared right after the election when they no longer served their purpose to keep him from getting elected. Quite the coincidence, no?

30 posted on 11/16/2017 5:57:06 PM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Stopped at Donald Trump.


31 posted on 11/16/2017 5:59:20 PM PST by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Good men need do nothing."

In my lifetime I've intervened in 3 separate cases where a woman was being sexually assaulted. Good men will always do something, when they witness a wrong being committed.

32 posted on 11/16/2017 6:02:57 PM PST by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
WBUR...Boston...NPR.I wonder if NPR cares that I simply don't take advice from them regarding my responsibilities...or anything else.

I'm guided in such matters by my upbringing by good,decent,admirable parents and by my Christianity.

33 posted on 11/16/2017 6:03:19 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Fun "B" sci-fi (well of course: it has John Saxon in it).. Planet earth (1974)
"... awakens in a future world ruled by women where men are slaves!"

34 posted on 11/16/2017 6:04:57 PM PST by mrsmith (Me too.)
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To: semaj

That’s not what this article is saying, at all.


35 posted on 11/16/2017 6:14:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Go make me a sammich, Steven!


36 posted on 11/16/2017 6:19:45 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
I wonder how many women are using this to blame men for their own slutty behavior? Some women would rather accuse an innocent man then admit they acted like a dirty slut.
37 posted on 11/16/2017 6:24:23 PM PST by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's uunderwear)
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To: peeps36

ditto...gives a lot of women a free ride to get away with dick murders so to speak


38 posted on 11/16/2017 6:31:16 PM PST by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

standards for sexual behavior based on respect, meaningful mutual consent, and awareness of differences in power.


I couldn’t agree more.

1) Girls need to respect that the guy has to navigate the waters of sexual harassment just to ask her for a date, a date for which he is expected to pay, plus the pain of insensitive rejection. Give the guy some props, girl.

2) Can’t say what ‘meaningful’ has to do with mutual consent, though. Unless you consent without meaning it, which is just setting the guy up for a later legal backlash.

3) As for difference in power, the ongoing plague of critically unexamined accusations being taken as truth just because they come from women, points in the direction of where the power resides.

So, yeah.


39 posted on 11/16/2017 6:55:55 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
"In this moment, it is crucial for men to be speaking publicly and unequivocally in support of standards for sexual behavior based on...awareness of differences in power."

Speak for yourself, boss moneybags.


40 posted on 11/16/2017 6:57:17 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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