Summary: Leftists’ radical changes to our gender roles are their grandest social engineering project, so far. Even bigger than communism. Now the results begin to appear. They are predictable, but not what our leaders expected.
“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. The Pence Rule was prescient in 2002; it is common sense today.
See the early results of the great experiment run on us
A SurveyMonkey poll sponsored by Lean In (Sheryl Sandberg’s activist organization) looks at the results of #MeToo. Too most people the results are obvious and inevitable, but they surprised some of our Leftist social engineers.
- “A full 60% of male managers say they are uncomfortable engaging in common workplace interactions with women, including mentoring, socializing, and having one-on-one meetings – up 14 percentage points from last year.
- “Senior men are especially uncomfortable socializing with female colleagues. In 2018, only a third of male managers (34%) said they were uncomfortable socializing with a woman outside of work (like in a restaurant). In 2019, that number rises to nearly half of male managers (48%).
- “More than a third (34%) have actively taken steps to avoid having to interact with a female colleague outside of work, and men are also more unwilling to accept 1:1 meetings outside the office. …
- “The steady stream of stories of harassment over the past few years seems to be confusing workers about the how often harassment really happens. Equal numbers say that the frequency of harassment is increasing (22%) and decreasing (21%), and even more workers don’t know which way it’s going (24%).
- “On top of that, women feel less safe at work than they did before. Only 85% said they feel safe on the job, down from 91% last year. …”
- “In 2018, only 46% of workers said their company had done something to address harassment in the workplace – this year 70% of employees report that their company has taken action in some way,”
The Lean In website gave additional information on the results.
“{Employers} don’t seem to discourage women and men from interacting with each other. 82% of workers say their workplace doesn’t discourage people of different genders from mentoring, socializing, or traveling together. Even outside the workplace, 80% of workers haven’t heard that they should avoid interactions with the opposite gender – meaning most of the hesitance male managers feel is internal. …
“As for why this is happening, 36% of men say they’ve avoided mentoring or socializing with a woman because they were nervous about how it would look.”
A follow-up survey produced more alarming findings.
“Senior-level men are now far more hesitant to spend time with junior women than junior men across a range of basic work activities. They are –
- 12x more likely to hesitate to have 1-on-1 meetings,
- 9x more likely to hesitate to travel together for work,
- 6x more likely to hesitate to have work dinners.”
Perhaps these men read the newspapers.
“Here’s an unpopular opinion: I’m actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations.”
— Emily Lindin (@EmilyLindin) 21 November 2017. She is the founder of the unslut project and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
A feminist surprised by the inevitable result of their experiments
Sheryl Sandberg is the billionaire COO of Facebook. Her interview has many fascinating nuggets. Men’s reaction to MeToo is evil patriarchy. She gives us the easy solution: more changes. Eventually, if we change enough, she will be satisfied.
“If there’s a man out there who doesn’t want to have a work dinner with a woman, my message is simple: Don’t have one with a man. Group lunches for everyone. Make it explicit, make it thoughtful, make it equal. …”Men need to step up. We need to redefine what it means to be a good guy at work. It’s not enough to not harass, and I think too many people think that’s sufficient.”
Dalrock’s Law of Feminism: “Feminism is the assertion that men are evil and naturally want to harm women, followed by pleas to men to solve all of women’s problems” {example here}. She has a long list of commands for men, such as this …
“And so I think men need to step up and they need to say in order to get women promoted those women need the same coaching, the same feedback, the same opportunities that men get.”
Sandberg fails to mention that women get 57% of undergraduate degrees – and that gap is growing. Feminists seldom mention this, as it ruins their victim-hood narrative. More insights follow …
“In a public restaurant having a lunch or dinner, I don’t really think you can get falsely accused of something.”
That is false. For example, there are many stories of professors using their mind control powers to get women drunk, even in public venues – and then have their way with them. See some of the stories here. Now the crusade has expanded from colleges to the workplace. It will change everything. Business leaders’ confidence about their ability to handle these “snowflakes” is delusional. Their HR staff, government regulators, and courts will provide an expensive education.
Perhaps the pleasant betas that staff the cubicles and offices of corporate America have read her best-seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home.”
A word from our Leftist social engineers.
Ignore the side-effects of our recent experiment.
The next version will be wonderful.
For the Left, there is always another step down the slippery slope. See “Want to Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish the Family” by Rosemarie Ho at The Nation — “Feminist theorist Sophie Lewis’s new book looks at how rethinking pregnancy and the idea of family as forms of labor is central to emancipatory politics.” The book is Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
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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.
- Hidden knowledge: false rape accusations are common.
- More triumphs of feminism. Are male executives scared?
An early book about 4th wave feminism: the quest for superiority
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.”
