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"Has someone lit the Victim-signal in the sky?
For the last several days my Facebook page has been lit up with women “me too-ing” about how they also were harassed and are as victimy, helpless, and deserving as any would-be Hollywood A-lister flung across Harvey Weinstein’s casting couch.
It’s all “I too was harassed” and “being a woman is so terrible” and “no one is safe” and “patriarchy.”
It might be unkind of me, but my first thought – right after, “Really, I didn’t know Bill Clinton’s staff was that big” – was “No, you were not sexually harassed, because the penalties for that are straight-up horrendous unless you happen to be a big-time leftist.
At worst you were inconvenienced by having a pass made at you by a guy you found unattractive.”
This thought could be wrong and unkind.
Young and hapless women often allow things to happen to them that are objectively sexual harassment.
...But in general, that kind of harassment is only a real problem when it’s an industry dominated by very few gatekeepers.
These industries/professions -- the arts, publishing, filmmaking, politics, etc. -- are almost all dominated by the left..."
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