Heather Mac Donald Warns about the Long-Term Effects of #MeToo

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PetraG said:
Sure, I think it still would have happened. The difference is that instead of attributing the momentum of this movement to outrage over Mr. Trump instead of Harvey Weinstein, there would be people wrongly giving credit for the momentum to Mrs. Clinton (as if political ambition hadn’t been her reason for covering for a sexual predator herself all those years).

That is, in the end, why Mr. Trump’s disgusting comments to Billy Bush didn’t bring him down. There were too many people who knew that Mrs. Clinton had covered for her husband in order to keep her own political ambitions alive. She’s right that she didn’t “stand by her man,” though. She would have taken him out with a cast-iron skillet, if he weren’t such a political asset. She was standing by their status in politics and what we can see now were her own personal political ambitions.
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She initiated the famous “bimbo eruptions” attacks on Bill’s victims. She had an office set up to cover for him.

During the 1992 campaign, Betsey Wright coined the term “bimbo eruptions” to describe rumors alleging extramarital affairs by Clinton. In the 1990s, Wright was an executive for The Wexler Group, a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. She currently resides in Rogers, Arkansas.
 
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MGTOW … men going their own way …

no longer willing to put up with accusations.
 
bsbs said:
If the electorate disregarded it,
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This was an election where both candidates were so deeply flawed (neither even got 50% of the popular vote!) that the sexual promiscuity got buried under even more serious issues.
 
bsbs said:
It’s not a dirty trick to state a pertinent fact. Donald Trump’s history of promiscuity speaks to the sincerity of his opposition to abortion,
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The dirty trick part was NBC and the Bush Family sitting on this for more than a decade and only springing it on the electorate on Election Eve- giving the voters no chance to process it. If the Access Hollywood tape was released in December 2015, it would have been perfectly legitimate.

As far as President Trump’s “sincerity” as to his opposition to abortion, the fact is that he is the most Pro-Life president in my lifetime by his actual policies. Maybe he isn’t “sincere” about it, But I’d rather have a President who isn’t sincere but does the right thing, instead of a pro-life President who doesn’t allow his convictions to affect his policies.
 
Thing about MGTOW is that they don’t seem to be going their own way - they seem to be sticking around and complaining about how tough things are for them

If you are going to do the ‘he man, woman haters club’ thing, then go do it. Don’t hang around yakking about it.
 
PetraG said:
Where did anyone get the idea that the #MeToo movement is a persecution of males, let alone specifically a persecution of white males?

The point of it was refusing to cover for sexual predators any more just because they preyed on people who were adults in a subordinate position with regards to status or some other position of power or fame or some other privilege.
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Yes! Something very different than gender parity or affirmative action.
 
Since this is not a Catholic apologetics thread I’ve moved it to casual discussion.
 
bsbs said:
It’s not a dirty trick to state a pertinent fact. Donald Trump’s history of promiscuity speaks to the sincerity of his opposition to abortion, which is what his election hinged on among the Christian Right. If the electorate disregarded it, they are too complacent regarding promiscuity. It was terrible that Bill Clinton got a free pass and it’s terrible that Trump got a free pass.
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Sure, which is why the abortion supporting media, politicians, entertainers, and PP are so critical of his every move to defund tax-payer supported abortion and strengthen laws to protect the unborn. It is also why all the outrage over Trump’s SCOTUS picks. It is all because he just isn’t sincere enough about his pro-life position. If he were sincere, everyone would just love him to bits.

Yeah kind of like how the left just loves Kavanaugh as a possible Supreme Court justice – because he is genuinely supportive of the pro-life position. He doesn’t carry Trump’s baggage but he is still vilified.

I’m not believing your faux outrage over Trump’s supposed history.

I would suppose someone who is insincere about being pro-life but actually does things to undermine the killing of babies in the womb is preferable to someone who exudes the aura of sincerity but does absolutely nothing to change the climate of abortion on demand.

I am beginning to suspect ulterior motives are in play every time Trump’s supposed “insincerity” is brought up. Why not just 'fess up and come clean that what is really worrisome is that Trump will actually do something to reduce access to abortions. At least that would show a measure of sincerity.
 
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They joined 10 hours ago. I’m betting that’s someone’s sock puppet account. Probably a regular.
 
Some people have mentioned on here that white male privilege has never existed in history.
 
Jump4Joy said:
Some people have mentioned on here that white male privilege has never existed in history.
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I’d have to see that one in context.

There may be ‘someone’ but not ‘many’ who think that way.
 
You need to ask: why is sex/gender and or skin color more important than competence or demonstrated skill.
 
Exactly. But it takes a long time to redress the years of white men being given preference in hiring. It’s beginning to balance—although even here, someone in the discrimination thread indicated that “distributive justice requires that everyone have the means to support themselves, and that adult men have the means to support a family.”

Adult men, not adults. We’re still not there.
 
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