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Originally Posted by driveway

Good, long article about #MeToo, what it's becoming, and the Ansari thing which finally put into words how I was feeling about it but unable to articulate.

https://longreads.com/2018/01/18/were-not-done-here/

Great article but here's one place I disagree.

The terms of this war of sex and power have changed, and so have the weapons. Physical violence and threat won’t work for you here. You are trying to fight against whispers and rumors and inference, against righteous rage, against charges of hypocrisy, exploitation, and crass dehumanization that hit home with career-ending accuracy. And you’re trying to fight this war with an arsenal you don’t know how to use, against an army that has been training with these weapons for generations, because these tools of emotional warfare are the only ones they have ever been allowed, because they are women.

You are going to lose.


Unless women "police themselves" like they did with this Babe article women will lose. Men still hold most if not all the real power. Losing allies will cost them in the long run. Men, in organizations will distance themselves from women and the sacrifice will be promotions and being in the inner circle. That's why this Aziz moment is so important, because there are a lot of old dudes waiting for the "see, they (women) can't be trusted" and it didn't happen.