While having an office discussion I ascertained the fact that in present-day America when a woman is helped by a man with her luggage in a bus train or plane the gesture can be taken as flirtation. My remark was quickly intercepted by a liberal female voice that admonished me: No you CANNOT THINK like that! Thats sexist!" Uh wait a minute! I
cannot think like this?! Since when has courtesy been banned? Because it puts women in an inferior position and thats bad?! Oh I get it now!
In another occasion I heard a woman cursing with references to male genitalia. I said that she cursed like a man" but the same voice snubbed me: No you CANNOT SAY it like that! Thats sexist!" Seriously? So this is where weve ended up?! Are we allowed from now on to utter sentences containing comparisons between genders?
On April 19 2017 Fox News announced that conservative commentator
Bill OReilly was fired under allegations of sexual misconduct. Some allegations were not even part of a formal complaint and no allegation was proven in court.
Whatever happened with the innocent until proven guilty" principle?
I think the feminists want to have it both ways. Its okay for a woman (hear me roar") to use sex-related (oops gender-related!) techniques" to gain favors and climb up the social ladder. But its not okay for the same woman to be sexually harassed" while using the same techniques." Correct?
If this is the case can men also sue for sexual arousal? In fact
Ronald Reagans son Michael defended Mr. OReilly using this particular argument. He referenced one of the allegations against the political commentator who called a black woman hot chocolate" and suggested that women invite attention by how they dress.
How about this: each legal complaint of sexual harassment should not be disjoint from counter-complaints of sexual arousal. Dont get me wrong this should apply irrespective of plaintiffs gender. Sexual arousal can be probed as efficiently as sexual harassment with documents testimonials and the like. And then let the court decide.
Or even better: how about passing a new statute making sexual arousal a cause to decriminalize sexual harassment? Can you imagine how many sexual harassment claims would be dropped or to start with not even filed?
As it happens liberals are more concerned with these things and they quickly go for the jugular if someone crosses the invisible and gradual line between sexual advances flirting flattery compliments and courtesy. Women know this much: if you want to be treated like a lady you act and dress accordingly. But then again a woman can chose not to act or dress like a lady and then sue. Societys current standards imbued with political correctness allow her to do just that.
During the infamous Lewinsky sex scandal I didnt hear any high-ranking democrat or The National Organization for Women or any other relevant liberal feminist organization going ballistic to impeach President Clinton. Back then Congresswoman Maxine Waters a Trump-hater and currently the campaign chief for his impeachment was as quiet as a mouse. People like her were not at all bothered by Billy Boys deviant sexual behavior which was notorious and proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The
justification: Cmon its just sex!"
But even before no liberal organization demanded Clintons resignation in spite of his numerous sexual harassment activities against other women. Having him disbarred was just a palliative remedy.
On March 8 2017 during the International Womens Day similar liberal feminist groups orchestrated a
Day Without a Woman" protest in Washington DC.
A day without a woman… hmm… Can I pick and choose the woman? Can it be Rosie ODonnell? Or Madonna? Or at least Maxine Waters?
In fact this was a
general strike day against the Trump administrations policies. The organizers encouraged women to refrain from working spending money (or shop only at small women- and minority-owned businesses) much to the chagrin of shopaholics - and to wear red as a sign of solidarity.
At the end of the day the
impact of this action remained limited.
This proved to be inversely proportional to its level of noise pollution comparable to the one exhibited during the
January 21 2017 anti-Trump Womens March.
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In October 2017 the
#Me Too movement erupted as a result of the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace. The movement has imposed a disturbing tendency to apply a one-size-fits-all approach for a large variety of cases (from innocent flirtations and consensual relationships to sexual harassment and rape).
What is sickening to me is how liberals manage so hypocritically to impose to conservatives standards of behavior higher than their own.
During the special elections in Pennsylvania of March 13 2018 the Democratic candidate Conor Lamb had said that he would not support Nancy Pelosi in her next leadership bid. The Republicans who stated that he was casting himself as anti-Pelosi in an attempt to sway Republican voters were considered sexist by
Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
On the other hand
Hillary Clinton during a trip to India was asked why about 52 percent of white women voted for Trump. The former Democratic presidential candidate herself a white woman unloaded
the worst kind of sexism blaming pressure from men for why white women voted that way. But dont hold your breath waiting for the feminists reaction.
This leads us to a simple conclusion: in reality sexism is just as anti-feminist as feminism claims to be anti-sexist.
As it stands sexism is the ugly baby of feminism while feminism has become its ugly mother.
So what type of society are we heading to? A society of
feminists against menininsts or a matriarchate with an urge for enforcing rules of emasculation?
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW!
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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