Traditional Tradesman
1 min readJan 23, 2018

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This is an excellent and thought-provoking article. My own take on these issues is, I think, getting at the exact same problem from a slightly different perspective:

The point I make is that we need to choose between a society in which BOTH genders abide by significant boundaries in the arena of sexuality and a society in which those walls come down for BOTH genders. What we cannot have is the kind of schizophrenic society the #MeToo movement envisions, one in which women are expected to flaunt their sexuality freely and openly but men are expected to behave like priests (and not the kind who sexually abuse little boys) in those same women’s presence. If we expect women to let it all hang out, as it were, then we also need to expect those women to take responsibility, like mature adults do, for the consequences of their open displays of sexuality. Greater freedom always entails greater responsibility. You can’t, in other words, go around aggressively coming on to guys, like “Grace” in the Aziz Ansari story did, accept an invitation to go to their place on a first date, take your clothes off and engage in all kinds of sexual behavior and then cry, “I’ve been sexually assaulted; protect me, media!” after the fact.

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Traditional Tradesman
Traditional Tradesman

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I am an attorney specializing in general commercial litigation. I am a writer specializing in general non-commercial poetry, fiction, drama, essays & polemics.

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