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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** The international #MeToo movement continues to harm women
****
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Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford
We're told that the #MeToo movement is becoming an increasingly global
phenomenon.
In May, the International Labor Organization held a conference to
debate whether or not to legislate for a global convention on sexual
harassment and abuse in the workplace. Thousands of women in many
countries have signed a letter urging international legislation, and
saying that a job should never ever include sexual harassment,
exploitation, coercion or abuse.
When I wrote about the #MeToo movement late last year, I described how
much it was hurting women, just as women in the workplace were
enormously harmed by the 1991 hearings for Supreme Court nominee
Clarence Thomas, where Anita Hill accused Thomas of asking her out
when they were both single and of telling he a couple of dirty jokes.
( "7-Dec-17 World View -- International #MeToo movement generates backlash against women from 'Mike Pence rule'"
)
Just as the Anita Hill accusations damaged women in the workplace for
a decade, because many men didn't want to work with women, the #MeToo
movement is having a similar effect today.
According to a recent survey, 63% of women are "How concerned
... about men being falsely accused of sexual assault and harassment."
The same survey showed that 60% of women are "concerned ... about the
#MeToo movement causing women to be denied professional opportunities
because men are reluctant to work with them."
This corresponds to what I found talking to men in the 1990s, and
talking to men today. Earlier this year, after several MeToo
scandals broke, one man told me that "working with a woman
is like working with an unexploded land mine -- you never know
when you'll say the wrong thing a trigger an explosion."
Women need experienced men to be mentors, but today you can't
turn on the television without hearing some feminist saying
that all older men are automatically guilty, and all should be
punished. Hatred of older men is rampant today.
And men know this. Researcher Sylvia Ann Hewlett at the Center for
Talent Innovation found that men aren’t comfortable taking female
protégés under their wings. "Our research shows that some 64% of
senior men avoid solo interactions with junior women because they fear
rumors about their motives." And as I said, fearing rumors
about the men's motives isn't the half of it, as the quote above
about the land mine illustrates.
In my lifetime, I've seen feminist politicians do enormous damage to
women. It's OK with them that Bill Clinton allegedly violently raped
seven women, but Clarence Thomas committed a crime by telling a dirty
joke. That's completely screwed up, and it's feminists who are
screwed up, and it's women that they're damaging. Guardian (London) and Law.com and Vox and World Economic Forum
****
**** Is Christine Blasey Ford accusing the wrong person?
****
If the #MeToo movement in general is a circus, then the circus act
going on in Washington today is disgusting and pathetic beyond belief.
There's a woman, Christine Blasey Ford accusing a Supreme Court
nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of having attempted a failed sexual assault
when they were in high school thirty years ago. This is the kind of
pathetic situation that makes so many Americans completely disgusted
with politicians and the media, and makes one wonder how the country
will ever survive.
There are some statistics about rape that can clarify this situation,
but which feminists don't talk about. I'll get to these statistics
below.
I spent much of the 1990s decade doing research for a book on gender
issues called Fraternizing with the Enemy - A book on gender issues
for men and for women who care about men. I researched the whole
range of gender issues - divorce, domestic violence, rape, teen
motherhood, sexual harassment, child abuse, incest, including detailed
discussions of the discussions of Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton,
and the "victims," including Anita Hill and Juanita Broaddrick. The
book was based on thousands of interviews and online conversations, as
well as extensive research into such things as "feminist legal theory"
and "feminist social theory."
The book is available as a free PDF, on my download page, http://generationaldynamics.com/download/.
So here are the most important facts about the Kavanaugh situation, as
I understand them:
Most people think that either Ford or Kavanaugh must be lying, but
that's not true. There's a perfectly reasonable scenario in which
both are telling the truth. NBC News
****
**** The rape statistics
****
So here are the statistics about rape that feminists don't talk about:
It's this last statistic that may be relevant here. 25% is a very
high number, and it's plausible that Ford was assaulted in the way she
described, but not by Kavanaugh.
Based on all I've heard about the sincere statements from both Ford
and Kavanaugh, a misidentification by Ford seems extremely likely to
have happened. This is a perfectly reasonable explanation, and it
would mean that both Ford and Kavanaugh are telling the truth, as they
know it.
The above statistics about rape were not pulled out of the air. We
know these figures because of a remarkable development that occurred
in the 1990s -- the use of DNA evidence to identify rapists. In many
cases in the 1980s, a man was convicted of rape simply because some
woman accused him, and feminists would pipe up and say, "Women are
never wrong about rape."
In the 1990s, Barry Scheck's Innocence Project was able to go back and
perform DNA tests on the rape kits that had been preserved. Of the
first 18,000 DNA tests, 5,000 accused suspects were eliminated --
27.8%.
Here's a quote from my book, describing a story that was widely
publicized in the 1990s:
<QUOTE>"One disturbing story was presented on PBS's
Frontline. In 1985, Ronald Cotton, a black man with a record, was
convicted of raping two women, based on an identification by one
of the victims, Jennifer Thomson, who was a very convincing and
compelling witness during the trial.
In 1995, DNA tests were performed, and Cotton was exonerated and
set free. Who was the real rapist? DNA tests showed it was Bobby
Poole, someone whom Jennifer had actually watched testify in
court, but who was excluded based on her eyewitness testimony.
According to Jennifer, "I remember feeling just an overwhelming
sense of just guilt that if, indeed, we had made a mistake and I
had contributed to taking away 11 years of this man's life.... I
felt so bad. I fell apart."
But amazingly, she still doesn't recognize Poole as the man who
actually raped her. She adds, "I have to accept the answer that's
been given to me and put faith in our system that the DNA tests,
the science, tells me we had the wrong guy. I just wish I had some
answers. I still see Ronald Cotton. And I'm not saying that to
point a finger. I'm just saying that's who I see. And I would love
to erase that face out of my mind. I would do anything to erase
that face out of my mind, but I can't. It's just .. it's in my
head. Sometimes it's more fuzzy than others because my mind now
says, 'Well, it's Bobby Poole.' But it's still the face I
see."<END QUOTE>
When Bill Clinton was credibly charged by seven women as being a
violent serial rapist, the feminists threw the women under the bus.
Then Hillary Clinton raped them all again (to use the feminist
phrase), along with Monica Lewinsky, by trashing all the women.
Now the feminists are throwing Ford under the bus as well. Senator
Dianne Feinstein handled this whole situation in such a way as to
inflict maximum damage on Ford. I cannot think of any way she could
have harmed Ford more.
She received Ford's letter in July, and sat on it. Then she revealed
it at the last minute, and is now refusing to release an unredacted
version to the Republicans. This is disastrous for Ford because it
suggests that when the letter is finally revealed, it will make Ford
look bad, and maybe even exonerate Kavanaugh.
There's another comparison that had to be made. Anita Hill was hated
by half of America in the 1990s. Bill Clinton's rape accusers, the
ones who were publicly known, were hated by half the country and
trashed by Democrats. And now, Ford is saying that she's receiving
death threats and have to hide out. Once again, I blame the feminists
for this. They're using her as a pawn, and they don't care how much
she's hurt. Book: Fraternizing with the Enemy (PDF) and University of Florida and PBS Frontline and
Fox News and Chicago Tribune
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford,
#MeToo, Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, Bill Clinton,
Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinsky,
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Center for Talent Innovation,
Barry Scheck, Innocence Project, PBS Frontline,
Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thomson, Bob Poole,
Dianne Feinstein
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- The international #MeToo movement continues to harm women
- Is Christine Blasey Ford accusing the wrong person?
- The rape statistics
****
**** The international #MeToo movement continues to harm women
****
Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford
We're told that the #MeToo movement is becoming an increasingly global
phenomenon.
In May, the International Labor Organization held a conference to
debate whether or not to legislate for a global convention on sexual
harassment and abuse in the workplace. Thousands of women in many
countries have signed a letter urging international legislation, and
saying that a job should never ever include sexual harassment,
exploitation, coercion or abuse.
When I wrote about the #MeToo movement late last year, I described how
much it was hurting women, just as women in the workplace were
enormously harmed by the 1991 hearings for Supreme Court nominee
Clarence Thomas, where Anita Hill accused Thomas of asking her out
when they were both single and of telling he a couple of dirty jokes.
( "7-Dec-17 World View -- International #MeToo movement generates backlash against women from 'Mike Pence rule'"
)
Just as the Anita Hill accusations damaged women in the workplace for
a decade, because many men didn't want to work with women, the #MeToo
movement is having a similar effect today.
According to a recent survey, 63% of women are "How concerned
... about men being falsely accused of sexual assault and harassment."
The same survey showed that 60% of women are "concerned ... about the
#MeToo movement causing women to be denied professional opportunities
because men are reluctant to work with them."
This corresponds to what I found talking to men in the 1990s, and
talking to men today. Earlier this year, after several MeToo
scandals broke, one man told me that "working with a woman
is like working with an unexploded land mine -- you never know
when you'll say the wrong thing a trigger an explosion."
Women need experienced men to be mentors, but today you can't
turn on the television without hearing some feminist saying
that all older men are automatically guilty, and all should be
punished. Hatred of older men is rampant today.
And men know this. Researcher Sylvia Ann Hewlett at the Center for
Talent Innovation found that men aren’t comfortable taking female
protégés under their wings. "Our research shows that some 64% of
senior men avoid solo interactions with junior women because they fear
rumors about their motives." And as I said, fearing rumors
about the men's motives isn't the half of it, as the quote above
about the land mine illustrates.
In my lifetime, I've seen feminist politicians do enormous damage to
women. It's OK with them that Bill Clinton allegedly violently raped
seven women, but Clarence Thomas committed a crime by telling a dirty
joke. That's completely screwed up, and it's feminists who are
screwed up, and it's women that they're damaging. Guardian (London) and Law.com and Vox and World Economic Forum
****
**** Is Christine Blasey Ford accusing the wrong person?
****
If the #MeToo movement in general is a circus, then the circus act
going on in Washington today is disgusting and pathetic beyond belief.
There's a woman, Christine Blasey Ford accusing a Supreme Court
nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of having attempted a failed sexual assault
when they were in high school thirty years ago. This is the kind of
pathetic situation that makes so many Americans completely disgusted
with politicians and the media, and makes one wonder how the country
will ever survive.
There are some statistics about rape that can clarify this situation,
but which feminists don't talk about. I'll get to these statistics
below.
I spent much of the 1990s decade doing research for a book on gender
issues called Fraternizing with the Enemy - A book on gender issues
for men and for women who care about men. I researched the whole
range of gender issues - divorce, domestic violence, rape, teen
motherhood, sexual harassment, child abuse, incest, including detailed
discussions of the discussions of Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton,
and the "victims," including Anita Hill and Juanita Broaddrick. The
book was based on thousands of interviews and online conversations, as
well as extensive research into such things as "feminist legal theory"
and "feminist social theory."
The book is available as a free PDF, on my download page, http://generationaldynamics.com/download/.
So here are the most important facts about the Kavanaugh situation, as
I understand them:
- According to Ford, she and Kavanaugh and a friend were at a
party where everyone was drinking a lot, but she can't say exactly
where or when, even what year, and her story contains
inconsistencies.
- According to Ford, Kavanaugh tried to remove her clothes, but she
broke free and left the room.
- Ford didn't tell anyone until years later, and then didn't mention
Kavanaugh's name.
- Kavanaugh denies the entire incident, says he doesn't know Ford,
wasn't at any such party, and never did anything like that while in
high school or after.
- Democrats are reflexively saying that Ford is extremely honest,
and is telling the truth. Republicans are saying that Kavanaugh is a
man of the the highest integrity, but they're withholding judgment
until they can look Ford in the eye and question her in a
hearing.
Most people think that either Ford or Kavanaugh must be lying, but
that's not true. There's a perfectly reasonable scenario in which
both are telling the truth. NBC News
****
**** The rape statistics
****
So here are the statistics about rape that feminists don't talk about:
- 6-7% of all rape charges are phony charges, made my women with
emotional problems, or seeking revenge. This is comparable to phony
charges in other crimes, so rape is no different than other
crimes.
- In 25% of stranger rape cases, the victim identifies the wrong
person. Once again, this is typical of eyewitness identification in
ALL crimes -- 25% of eyewitness identifications were wrong -- so rape
is no different from other crimes.
It's this last statistic that may be relevant here. 25% is a very
high number, and it's plausible that Ford was assaulted in the way she
described, but not by Kavanaugh.
Based on all I've heard about the sincere statements from both Ford
and Kavanaugh, a misidentification by Ford seems extremely likely to
have happened. This is a perfectly reasonable explanation, and it
would mean that both Ford and Kavanaugh are telling the truth, as they
know it.
The above statistics about rape were not pulled out of the air. We
know these figures because of a remarkable development that occurred
in the 1990s -- the use of DNA evidence to identify rapists. In many
cases in the 1980s, a man was convicted of rape simply because some
woman accused him, and feminists would pipe up and say, "Women are
never wrong about rape."
In the 1990s, Barry Scheck's Innocence Project was able to go back and
perform DNA tests on the rape kits that had been preserved. Of the
first 18,000 DNA tests, 5,000 accused suspects were eliminated --
27.8%.
Here's a quote from my book, describing a story that was widely
publicized in the 1990s:
<QUOTE>"One disturbing story was presented on PBS's
Frontline. In 1985, Ronald Cotton, a black man with a record, was
convicted of raping two women, based on an identification by one
of the victims, Jennifer Thomson, who was a very convincing and
compelling witness during the trial.
In 1995, DNA tests were performed, and Cotton was exonerated and
set free. Who was the real rapist? DNA tests showed it was Bobby
Poole, someone whom Jennifer had actually watched testify in
court, but who was excluded based on her eyewitness testimony.
According to Jennifer, "I remember feeling just an overwhelming
sense of just guilt that if, indeed, we had made a mistake and I
had contributed to taking away 11 years of this man's life.... I
felt so bad. I fell apart."
But amazingly, she still doesn't recognize Poole as the man who
actually raped her. She adds, "I have to accept the answer that's
been given to me and put faith in our system that the DNA tests,
the science, tells me we had the wrong guy. I just wish I had some
answers. I still see Ronald Cotton. And I'm not saying that to
point a finger. I'm just saying that's who I see. And I would love
to erase that face out of my mind. I would do anything to erase
that face out of my mind, but I can't. It's just .. it's in my
head. Sometimes it's more fuzzy than others because my mind now
says, 'Well, it's Bobby Poole.' But it's still the face I
see."<END QUOTE>
When Bill Clinton was credibly charged by seven women as being a
violent serial rapist, the feminists threw the women under the bus.
Then Hillary Clinton raped them all again (to use the feminist
phrase), along with Monica Lewinsky, by trashing all the women.
Now the feminists are throwing Ford under the bus as well. Senator
Dianne Feinstein handled this whole situation in such a way as to
inflict maximum damage on Ford. I cannot think of any way she could
have harmed Ford more.
She received Ford's letter in July, and sat on it. Then she revealed
it at the last minute, and is now refusing to release an unredacted
version to the Republicans. This is disastrous for Ford because it
suggests that when the letter is finally revealed, it will make Ford
look bad, and maybe even exonerate Kavanaugh.
There's another comparison that had to be made. Anita Hill was hated
by half of America in the 1990s. Bill Clinton's rape accusers, the
ones who were publicly known, were hated by half the country and
trashed by Democrats. And now, Ford is saying that she's receiving
death threats and have to hide out. Once again, I blame the feminists
for this. They're using her as a pawn, and they don't care how much
she's hurt. Book: Fraternizing with the Enemy (PDF) and University of Florida and PBS Frontline and
Fox News and Chicago Tribune
Related Articles
- International #MeToo movement generates backlash against women from 'Mike Pence rule' (07-Dec-2017)
- France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn acquitted of 'aggravated pimping' (13-Jun-2015)
- France's politics in turmoil from collapse of Strauss-Kahn rape case (02-Jul-2011)
- Collapse of Duke rape case represents cultural change (22-Apr-2007)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford,
#MeToo, Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, Bill Clinton,
Juanita Broaddrick, Monica Lewinsky,
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Center for Talent Innovation,
Barry Scheck, Innocence Project, PBS Frontline,
Ronald Cotton, Jennifer Thomson, Bob Poole,
Dianne Feinstein
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Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
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John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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