Men say they're guilty until proven innocent in #MeToo era

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2018-09-18 18:39

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some men now view all women as suspect.

That's what one female business owner told cleveland.com after Shatter, our women's issues page, asked if men have stopped mentoring women in their offices.

"It's almost like all women are a ticking time bomb that could take them down at any minute," she wrote in an email. "These guys genuinely don't seem to know the difference between inappropriate sexist behavior and other behavior, so they just pull back and interact awkwardly. They ask me weird questions like, 'So I just can't kid around at all anymore?' They're genuinely perplexed."

That seems like hyperbole -- until you read the cleveland.com comments. They're startling in their fervor that #MeToo has victimized men.'

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... risk your career by being alone with a female in your office, then you're clearly just being unreasonable. The fact that she could accuse you of anything, insist on being believed w/out any evidence, and get you sacked, arrested, etc. should not bear at all on your decision.

If it does, well, then, you're just a sissy. (South Park's Cartman: a "cis-y")

REAL MEN risk their freedom, reputation, and careers to help women learn how to use Excel's autosum feature.

For real. No, seriously. Not kidding. Really.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2018-09-19 02:39