Female journos suspend Hillary’s ‘believe all women’ rule, sign letter of support for Tom BrokawSome responses:
Wait— I thought there’s a special place in Hell for women who don’t support other women
“#MeToo but not for you”
“Believe all women” until not really
#MeToo Fallout: Almost Half of Male Managers 'Uncomfortable' in a Work Activity With a WomanI encourage men to watch-the-hell-out for Leftist, Feminist, barracudas in short skirts and open blouses.
"Almost half of male managers are uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone, or socializing together," LeanIn.org reported.
Leanin.org, an organization co-founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to "empower more women to achieve their ambitions," teamed up with SurveyMonkey to conduct the online survey of 2,950 employed adults in late January. Perhaps not surprisingly, the men in positions of leadership have grown wary of working with women who could accuse them of sexual assault, and cost their careers.
Almost 30 percent of male managers reported being uncomfortable working alone with a woman, more than twice the amount before the #MeToo movement.
Three times as many male managers reported being uncomfortable mentoring women, in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Early last year, only 5 percent of male managers said mentoring a woman would make them uncomfortable. This year, 16 percent said so, meaning that 1 in 6 male managers hesitate to mentor a woman.
As for the movement itself, working men and women mostly agreed about the revelations of sexual harassment. Almost half (47 percent) said they were not surprised by the revelations, while a quarter (25 percent) said they think there are worse revelations to come.
About half of both working women and men said their companies have responded to the #MeToo movement by taking action against alleged harassers, updating their policies, or offering employee guidance or training. The other half, who said their companies have not changed their policies, seemingly did not explain in the survey whether or not their companies already had strong policies against sexual assault.
A second poll conducted this month showed that senior men are more than three times more likely to hesitate to have a work dinner with a junior-level woman than with a junior-level man. This poll also found that senior men are five times more likely to hesitate to travel for work with a junior-level woman.
For all the outrage and criticism Vice President Mike Pence received for applying the Billy Graham rule — never eating dinner alone with a woman besides his wife — it seems the #MeToo movement has encouraged many men to follow suit.
Refusing to mentor a woman arguably goes beyond the Billy Graham rule, however, and as LeanIn.org rightly pointed out, losing mentorship opportunities would be a real career hit to women.
One need not be a feminist or an advocate for "equal pay" to lament the loss of this kind of opportunity, and to encourage successful men to mentor aspiring women.
Ovary Acting
BLOOMFIELD: Strange Fruit, When Women Lied And Men Died
By Janet Bloomfield
Posted on December 13, 2017
From 1882 – 1968, an estimated 4,743 men were lynched in the United States, often after an accusation of rape, prompting the NAACP to claim ‘[w]hites started lynching because they felt it was necessary to protect white women’.
We now know that many of these women lied, and men died.
Emmet Till was only 14 years old when he was beaten to death for the crime of ‘whistling at a white woman’. Many years later, Carolyn Brant admitted that she lied, to protect her husband. They went on to profit financially from the boy’s death. Till was hardly alone. A mob of 1500 beat and hung three Black circus workers in Duluth, after a white woman made an apparently false accusation of rape.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gilbert King chronicles the lives and deaths of the black men falsely accused of sexual assault in his book, Devil in the Grove.
The history of lynching in the United States is inextricably interwoven with the history of women lying about sexual assault. Last month Teen Vogue writer Emily Lindin cheerfully resigned herself to innocent men being made to suffer if women lie, as the price of ending “patriarchy”, seemingly incapable of understanding that she would not be the one paying the price. This is the same thought process of the women who lied to force the Southern trees to bear their strange fruit.
Billie Holiday, one of the best jazz vocalists in American history, recorded her mournful masterpiece “Strange Fruit” in 1939, describing the sight of men’s burnt and beaten bodies, hanging from trees and lampposts in the South, after mob retribution.
The song was later updated by Kanye West to include a discussion of predatory women hoping to become pregnant by rich men. West samples the Nina Simone recording of “Strange Fruit,” linking his depiction of rapacious black women with malicious white women who lied about sexual assault.
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
The recent epidemic of powerful, mostly liberal, white men accused of sexual impropriety, harassment, assault and rape has been accompanied by a dogged insistence that the women accusers could not be lying, predatory, or motivated by malice or financial gain. This is a curious revision of history, in which the women who prompted up to one third of all the lynchings that occurred in the United States through false accusations of rape, are suddenly evolved beyond their sisters of an earlier age.
[Democrats, all of them]
The trouble with women is that they are human beings, and human beings have a terrible capacity to be flawed, often egregiously so. Culturally, we have little problem accepting that men can be malevolent, predatory and exploitative, because we understand that men are human beings. We have considerably more difficulty accepting that women are human beings, too.
Some of the men accused of harassment and assault may very well be guilty. They are all being subject to the digital mob, lynched in cyberspace. How many of the lynched men of the South were innocent? Has mob justice ever meted out a fair and just reward?
The strange fruit that once hung abundantly from the poplar trees should remind us that women can, and do lie.
Women lie.
But men die.
A panic is not an answer: We’re at imminent risk of turning this #metoo moment into a frenzied rush to blame all menNear the top of her article, Hoff Summers classifies the men involved in the purge so far as powerful men. She ignores the actual discriminatory feature, which is not power; it is that they are all Leftists/Democrats. There are many men in power who do have morals and do not predate on women. It is not so clear for the Leftocrats, who are self-annointed moral superiors who abjure absolute morals in favor of their own brand of morals-du-jour. This failure to identify and illuminate the basic tribal membership of this class of hedonists affects her article all the way through.
Let’s All Savor The Democrats’ Pervgate Pain
This scandal poses some unique problems for our liberal friends. The Democrats spent decades telling women how Republicans hate them and now, well, it appears the Democrats like women, just the wrong way, and they like obtaining consent not at all. Pervgate is generating gross revelation after gross revelation, and basically America’s ladies are being asked, “Show me on the doll where the bad party touched you.”
They’re answering, “Everywhere, and also on my houseplants.”
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But, of course, thanks to the giant hard left progressive faction within the Democrat Party, they have a problem. The crony centrist Clintonish contingent is perfectly happy to ignore Dem abuse of women because they don’t actually care – it is all a pose. But the prog wing has an incentive to continue to pretend to care about women because their faux outrage is a weapon they can wield in trying to win the party civil war. So now, they have Albatross Franken to deal with – some of the Democrats aren’t going to go along quietly with the usual three-act script that dictates a first act of fake concern, then a second act of fake contrition, and that climaxes with fake consequences. Franken may well be sacrificed on the altar of wokeness.
Gosh, I love blue-on-blue fratricide.
Roy Moore is a pain to the GOP for what he allegedly did back when he was a Democrat, but the Donkeys are doing all they can to neutralize the fallout. Franken and Menendez also provide the GOP with a ready-made response to all those Roy Moore ads the Democrats are slobbering to drop. Stuart Smarmy was dumb enough, and tacky enough to, doggone it, let himself get caught on film doing it. The GOP might be the Party of a Perv, but the Democrats are the Party of a Bunch of Pervs.
Here’s the thing everyone sees clearly now. The Democrats never actually believed all that stuff they shovel about women. It was a pose, a scam, a grift run on the suckers. And now, thanks to the likes of Al Franken being unable to interact successfully with women who are awake, the curtain has been thrown back. What it reveals is a pathetic collection of losers trying to leverage their positions to get a few cheap gropes.
