#MeToo isn’t enough. Now women need to get ugly

UK Guardian ^ | January 16, 2018 | Barbara Kingsolver

[C19fan]

In each of my daughters’ lives came the day in fifth grade when we had to sit on her bed and practise. I pretended to be the boy in class who was making her sick with dread. She had to look right at me and repeat the words until they felt possible, if not easy: “Don’t say that to me. Don’t do that to me. I hate it.” As much as I wanted to knock heads around, I knew the only real solution was to arm a daughter for self-defence. But why was it so hard to put teeth into that defence? Why does it come more naturally to smile through clenched teeth and say “Oh, stop,” in the mollifying tone so regularly, infuriatingly mistaken for flirtation?

[IrishBrigade]

‘The MeToo stuff wasn’t ever just about reporting sexual abuse’

why should we ‘pussy’foot around this issue of sexual abuse and the law...it’s quite simple; these, ahem, females wish to be able to chop off a man’s dong, and face no consequences for it...no more, no less...

and it appears as if that day is coming...

[IrishBrigade]

‘Barbara Kingsolver, the authoress’

smarmy looking old gal, isn’t she...? bet she’s a real gas at the dinner table...

[Mr. Jeeves]

There is a difference between sexual abuse and harmless flirtation.

These feminists don't like flirtation, either - because too many improperly brainwashed girls say "yes" to it and they have then lost another potential convert to the evil patriarchy. :)

[Rosie405]

An awful lot of these supposedly “brave” women who are now “coming forward” with their tales of woe are simply more of the same. They are actresses who are now in their 40s and they know their careers in the movie industry are pretty much over. Hypocrites all. They are no longer young enough to be sex objects for Harvey Weinstein or anyone else. They do this simply to get their name out there, and to remind everyone that, “Look at me!! I’m beautiful! I’m rich! I’m famous!” I could care less, and so do most women I know. Probably one of the reasons why box office receipts are down, down, down. Good, good, good!!