Summary: Another demonstration of fourth wave feminism’s power in academia, hints at rising fear among corporate executives – and a possible push-back. So far women are winning the Gender Wars, but what they win remains to be seen.
“What’s happening is good, but it is having a chilling effect on camaraderie. I think this is going to be the new normal.”
— Joyce Thomas-Villaronga, president of the United Auto Workers chapter in Sacramento, CA. She’s wrong. Revolutions always run further than expected. We have not yet seen the new normal.
This article about the consequences of the #MeToo movement was posted to LinkedIn on 11 June 2018 and quickly went viral. The usual outrage campaign got the usual response. It was considered thoughtcrime by LinkedIn’s executives and deleted. The profile of the author is also gone. Here it is, courtesy of the Internet archive formerly known as Archive Today.
“Congratulations #Metoo. You’ve Made Women Employees Radioactive.”
“…As a corporate CEO, I have an {sic} fiduciary and moral obligation to my employees, NOT to do something stupid that will destroy the company and throw them out into a very hard and dangerous world. The streets of Silicon Valley are full of RVs and campers with homeless former engineers and former managers, many with no health insurance. I am obligated by law and by custom not to add my people to that list. That’s why I can’t hire women.
“Even before #Metoo, hiring women came with a significant risk. I’ve seen several small companies wiped out by some angry ex-employee claiming some sort of sexual harassment. In each and every case, the company leaders honestly tried to prevent the problem, but were wiped out anyway. “$150K just to walk in the front door” says any law firm. That’s enough to destroy most startups.
“…Because of #Mettoo, women walk in the door with the metaphorical equivalent of a suicide bomb strapped to their back. The slightest wrong move, the slightest insult, and BANG. Everybody is dead. In the past it was just a few women who had this tendency to use lawsuits to destroy. Now in the era of #Metoo, it has become fashionable …”
There are another 386 words elaborating on this. It is worth a quick look. I cannot determine if the author is a CEO, or of what corporation. That does not affect the degree of validity to this analysis. I personally have seen an example of this (fortunately, against a co-worker). It is not pretty.
This is the spread of fourth wave feminism (reaching beyond equality for superiority) is from colleges to businesses. Laura Kipnis describes life at affected institutions. A woman complains that a man “forced her to drink” too much at a public venue. A woman can file charges about an incident days, weeks, months, or years later – after friendly relations, without any evidence. Often with serious effects on the man. Or perhaps the victim?
Despite all these stories from our colleges of weird accusations and kangaroo courts, you might still believe that the above “CEO” is exaggerating the situation (you might change your mind after reading the next section).
“Because of #Mettoo, women walk in the door with the metaphorical equivalent of a suicide bomb strapped to their back.”
A patriarchal attack by an entitled sexist male
The International Studies Association (ISA) is one of the oldest interdisciplinary associations in its field. Founded in 1959, it has over 7,000 members in 100 nations. They held their 59th annual conference in San Francisco during 4 – 7 April. An important event there overshadowed the vast intellectual output presented there. This shows the nature of our America. Alumni of the Stasi read this story and went green with envy. You must read this story in order to believe it.
A man in an elevator joking asks to be let off at “ladies’ lingerie.” A feminist in the elevator feels harassed and files charges with the ISA which can destroy his career. See the woman’s description of this horror.
“Speaking up in the Age of #MeToo and Persistent Patriarchy or
What can we learn from an elevator incident about anti-feminist backlash“
By Simona Sharoni at Feminist Review.
She is a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute at Merrimack College (see her website and Wikipedia). Her logic is amazing. See the next article, which shows our intellectuals at work, and why they should not be let near the controls of society.
“Dispute Over ‘Lingerie’ Comment Persists, as Society Rejects Professor’s Appeal“
By Katherine Mangan at the Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 November 2018.
In the following, see a detailed review of this incident, showing how it combines ideological fervor and madness at every level.
“Is ‘Ladies Lingerie’ a Harmless Joke or Harassment?“
By Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic.
Especially see his analysis at the end. This is how our social science intellectuals conduct their business. Remember that when reading their criticisms of American society.
Updates
(1) More pushback by men: “Men afraid to mentor young female lawyers, solicitor chief claims” in The Times, 10 November 2018. Hat tip to Dalrock. For more examples, see MeToo discovers that there is always a counterrevolution.
(2) Feminists respond to men’s reactions: “Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost” by two women reporters at Bloomberg. First, efforts by men to protect themselves are inherently bad.
“If men avoid working or traveling with women alone, or stop mentoring women for fear of being accused of sexual harassment,” he said, “those men are going to back out of a sexual harassment complaint and right into a sex discrimination complaint.”
Second, men’s fears are silly. There are no false accusations!
“‘One, an investment adviser who manages about 100 employees, said he briefly reconsidered having one-on-one meetings with junior women. He thought about leaving his office door open, or inviting a third person into the room. Finally, he landed on the solution: ‘Just try not to be an asshole.’ That’s pretty much the bottom line, said Ron Biscardi, chief executive officer of Context Capital Partners. ‘It’s really not that hard.’”
(3) Here is another example of radical Leftists at work in academia. A climate scientist wrote about the link between wildfires and warming. A fellow scientist at that university tweeted rebuttals. “That’s white male identity politics to a T.” “This is a form a violence. Stop. Please stop.” The university’s Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion broadcast a chilling memo alleging that his article was “racially insensitive and caused offense to a significant number of members in the departmental community.”
Conclusions
3x as many male managers are now uncomfortable mentoring women in the wake of #MeToo. This is a huge step in the wrong direction. We need more men to #MentorHer. https://t.co/RyPo0PBz7N
— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) February 6, 2018
Fourth wave feminists are removing the bolts from American society. If you listen closely, you can hear the strange noises coming from America’s social machinery. Bolt by bolt. It will only grow worse. In five years the “CEO’s” advice and the Pence Rule (President Pence’s rule?) might be common sense.
“In 2002 Mike Pence told The Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side.” {Source: WaPo.}
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- Summary – Starting World War G: the gender wars.
- The feminist revolutionaries have won. Insurgents have arisen to challenge the new order. As always, they’re outlaws.
- As the Left’s social revolution wins victories, a revolt begins.
- Look beyond the stories to see how we define harassment.
- The coming crash as men and women go their own way.
- MeToo = Salem Witch trials 2.0 — see the similarities.
An early book of 4th wave feminism
Manning Up: How the Rise of Women
Has Turned Men into Boys
By Kay Hymowitz (2011).
Got to love her certainty about what is “real adulthood.” How would she react if men told women what was their “real adulthood”? Also, it seldom occurs to women feminists that there might be a rational basis for men’s behavior. From the publisher …
“Women complain there are no good men left – that men are immature, unreliable, and adrift. No wonder. Masculine role models have become increasingly juvenile and inarticulate: think of stars like Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell, or the dudes of the popular Judd Apatow movies. There are no rules for dating and mating. Guys are unsure how to treat a woman. Most importantly, dating in the pre-adult years is no longer a means to an end – marriage – as it was in the past. Many young men today suspect they are no longer essential to family life, and without the old scripts to follow, they find themselves stuck between adolescence and “real” adulthood.
“In Manning Up, Kay Hymowitz sets these problems in a socioeconomic context: today’s knowledge economy is female friendly, and many of the highest profile areas of that economy – communications, design, the arts, and health care – are dominated by women. Men are increasingly left on the outskirts of this new, service economy, and take much longer to find a financial foothold.
“With no biological clock telling them it’s time to grow up, without the financial resources to settle down, and with the accepted age of marriage rising into the late 30s or even 40s, men are holding onto adolescence at the very time that women are achieving professional success and looking to find a mate to share it with. A provocative account of the modern sexual economy, Hymowitz deftly charts a gender mismatch that threatens the future of the American family and makes no one happy in the long run.”
