This is an aside to the string, but totally germain, and it does give me cause to reconsider the nature of the context canvas this is all being painted onto. From a friend who is in the middle of another of the many 'accusation' imbroglios, as a close observer, to whom I sent the link for this forum and some of the comments:
[...]
Another interesting angle on this is that women our age are leery of this (J'Accuse) too. That would fit in Blatchford and Dimanno. But what XXX is hearing from her friends about what their daughters are going through with the internet world is that young women are being texted dick pics as a regular thing and, I guess because they want to please guys, they accept it. Also, her therapist friend says she has several young women who have been severely abused on Tinder dates. I guess that wasn't hard to see coming but you don't hear about it. So, while a lot of older women are suspicious of the me-too thing, a lot of younger women are facing a lot of crap that no one is talking about and that may be fueling the movement.
[....]
-Personal email received in the last hour
This is crucial for understanding the "#MeToo" movement, whether I agree with the driving factors or not (the term 'naivete' immediately comes to mind, I mean...wtf do you expect kids?). A lot of the 'I'm so clean, he/she is the infected one' is driven to *accommodate* that zeitgeist, morally justified or not.
We're not just dealing with the 'sins of a few individuals'...we're dealing with a 'presented lifestyle' that doesn't conform to preconceived norms. This is part and parcel of the 'iGeneration backlash' now unfolding, and unfolding fast.
Just take a look on a subway or streetcar now-days when you get on. Zombies, slaves to their iDevices. This is a generation incapable of dealing what the previous gen has wrought. In effect, they all have loaded guns. Mutter "Boo", and they'll all make sure someone is accused of violating their space by tweeting it en masse to the world. Tell them "Hey, you look great today" and you might be facing a lawsuit.
The same women who are calling caution on the iCraze are the same cohort calling caution on many of the accusations of sexual impropriety. There's a logic of sorts unfolding there. But that doesn't excuse, not even for a moment, the *stampede* of Holier Than Thous all sticking a knife into Brown's back, and then kicking him after.
Where's the honour Your Honour?
I think Hollywood/pop culture looks to be gaining the most traction to proivde is our future Leaders.
Indeed! *Icons* since the pre-digested for you iGen can only relate to what the web tells them, what Cosmopolitan smears like cheap lipstick onto their faces, like the boy mags show how to 'be a man'.
Of course this isn't unique to this gen, but what this gen lacks is being outside and in the real world to know how not to step on the cracks in the pavement. And by 'this gen' I mean those into their twenty somethings, who somehow 'put it out' but now resent that it didn't pay off they way they expected. 'Someone must pay!'
Thank God that Oprah figured out she's not presidential material after all. Duh! Is it any wonder that the likes of Trump are getting elected?
