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Originally Posted by Igottago
I was watching a Young Turks video on this last night (they are very left leaning) and even they were alarmed by how easily this movement started to group all incidents together and start conflating any less than ideal experience as sexual assault (essentially putting everything at the same level as Weinstein).
They also mentioned a couple of statistics, can't remember what the source was -- they said 1/3 of young women consider someone commenting on their looks to be harassment, as well as 1/4 that view being bought a drink as being harassed as well. That is absolutely bonkers. And reading a lot of the rabid response during this movement its incredible how many young women seem to be almost bloodthirsty in their willingness to move the goalposts to bring down what they view as injustice at every turn, without any in depth consideration about what has actually happened or what the ramifications of their accusations are. The backlash to the Ansari story, while much needed, seems primarily to be coming from older women.
I do wonder if this is just more of the type of PC extremism that seems to be showing up at college and university campuses, and gets further fueled by social media, which really does little for having in depth discussions on topics.
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I'm not sure on the source of those figures either but I've seen that study/poll referenced several times in the last little while.
If they are an accurate reflection and young women see some pretty normal and innocuous actions as sexual harassment or sexual assault, it is definitely concerning. Not only is that type of attitude a clear sign that the messages being taught are way beyond rational but also raises some valid concerns about how and why women are being conditioned to have these views. As with many movements it seems as though decades of being taken advantage of and being victims has led the pendulum to swing way in the other direction and some extremist/reactionary views being developed.