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#MeToo should not be undermined from within : Comments

By Dilan Thampapillai, published 18/1/2018

I don't know why, but the recent take-down of Aziz Ansari in the press and on social media feels like a turning point. It seems like this is the moment that #MeToo slipped its moorings.

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Consensual sex is only ever rape if it's conditional and the conditions are breached. All sex has community standards attached to it, i.e. age limits, mental capacity etc.

The only thing that has made any of this possible is silence, the power of the purpertrater, their lack of empathy, humanity, common human decency, and moral fibre.

Me too should not be undermined from within, or without as this article seems to attempt?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:09:12 AM
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>"However, justice cannot be built upon the back of injustice. Feminism is not incompatible with due process and fairness. If anything, feminism has always been a struggle for fairness and justice."

I sincerely hope you are being "Ironic."

https://clairelehmann.net/2014/11/24/false-claims-belittle-a-good-cause/
Posted by Wolly B, Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:23:41 AM
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Dilan, there is a vast difference between being feminine and feminist and not many women activists have carried the two together successfully from what I see being forced down our throats with #MeToo#. They have lost objectivity, they continue the Germaine Greer like castigation of men with their Wimmin slogans. Even Mizzz Greer herself has weighed in on the misdirected campaign in recent weeks.

Whilst anyone who has committed unlawful or illegal acts against another should be called to task by the relevant court of law, it is the almost Erinye like modus operandi of the current crusaders for wimminfolk who need to keep this in mind.

This has a parallel mythological status within LGBTI culture.
[From: theoi.com] "No prayer, no sacrifice, and no tears can move them, or protect the object of their persecution The wrath of the Erinyes could only be placated with the rite [sic] ritual purification and the completion of some task assigned for atonement."

What like cutting off the testicles of offenders ? More likely a frothing at the mouth pursuit via media ratings driven imperatives if ever there was. Hopefully it will soon pass. When tv personalities like Dr Phil can be shut down because they expose paedophile networks, this sends a thinly veiled message to those attempting to shine light on other equally appalling behaviour...don't rock the boat if you are a bloke.

No Dilan, we have gone rapidly [rabidly?] past the point where the scales of equality were horizontal, arriving instead at a time in history whereby it has now become a dirty fight for superiority by all means possible.
Posted by Albie Manton in Darwin, Thursday, 18 January 2018 11:41:04 AM
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Hollywood preaching on morals is like paedophile priests preaching on childcare.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 18 January 2018 11:46:39 AM
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Yes #MeToo represents many interests, some self-serving.

For example Oprah Winfrey creating conditions for a run at US President in 2020. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-09/oprah-for-president-winfrey-fans-urge-white-house-run/9313544

As a TV star and billionaire Oprah has all Trump's qualifications. http://www.forbes.com/profile/oprah-winfrey/
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 18 January 2018 12:09:24 PM
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No doubt Oprah who has made millions thanks to American founders will play the victim card. Imagine she grew up in one the the countries that President TTrump recently described.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 18 January 2018 2:39:12 PM
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