Quote:
Originally Posted by wittynickname
This is not about small lapses in judgement. This is not about one dirty joke that was spoken in the wrong company. The men who are actually being brought down are bad people doing bad things for a very long time, not good people making a dumb mistake one time.
|
You seem to have missed the topic drift. Nobody here is defending the predators like Weinstein. Nobody is defending harassment. Nobody is even saying making unintentional social gaffes is okay.
Some of us are talking about this:
An inappropriate joke by an MP is not really a #MeToo moment - Robyn Urback
Quote:
...There have been many phenomenal successes as a result of the #MeToo movement, not the least of which has been watching once-untouchably powerful men brought down by revelations of their own misbehaviour. Women are no longer afraid to come forward, and everyone is thinking more carefully about how their behaviour affects others. There's no question that, for these and many more reasons, the movement has been an unrivalled force for good.
But there have been small casualties along the way, one of which seems to be respect for nuance — a topic that Alheli Picazo explored in a recent column for CBC. Picazo outlined the danger of conflating boorish and offensive behaviours with those that are predatory, exploitative and criminal: all of them are wrong, to be clear, but the latter is usually habitual and devastating for its victims, whereas the former can be addressed and corrected, and usually does not derail the lives of those it affects.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/james...joke-1.4433899
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by wittynickname
So do you expect everyone else to change their behavior to suit her? If you can't think before you speak, and you lose your job because you refuse to change, it is not the responsibility of others to put up with it.
|
I'm not saying it is. I'm pointing out the fact everyone is a flawed human, with their own weaknesses. We aren't blank slates that any social behaviour can be inscribed on. It would be nice if we were, but that's not humanity.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Or as Christie Blatchford put it:
Quote:
James Bezan was entitled to assume that he was dealing with an adult who had a sense of proportion, if not a sense of humour.
He was grossly mistaken.
Comes a time to ‘call out’ those who reflexively describe ordinary human behaviour (which is to say, imperfect behaviour) as abusive and those who reflexively report it as gospel.
http://nationalpost.com/opinion/chri...gy-and-move-on
|