Should We Trust All Women?

Since Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit, demonizing and distrust of women has been a common policy throughout the planet. We don't have to go back in time to see the truth of all this.

You're just a kid,” Roy Moore was charged with telling Beverly Young Nelson when she was 16, as he was picking on him in his car. I'm the representative of the Etowah Council district, and if you tell someone about what I'm doing, you're in vain because nobody's gonna believe you. ”

Things have changed a lot since 1603, when Shakespeare warned that conversation between that representative and his rape. In <x0) Angeello, a government official who is a powerful follower of the moral code of society, tried to get a young girl named Isabel to give him virginity so that she could forgive her brother, who was waiting for the violation of the code that prohibited extramarital sex.

Shakespeare's Isabel says: “What a man you are.”

Angelo answers: “Who's going to trust you, Isabel? My implacable name, my hard life, My voice against your voice, and my country is state, which will see your baseless accusation. ”

Let's not stretch.

Now, suddenly, Mitch McConnell is saying, “I believe in women. ”

Now, suddenly, Chelsea Handler is telling Juanita Broadrick, “I believe in you.”

This either no matter what or maybe because of the head of the Oval Office it's a cultural breach.

The biggest sign of this break in my life was my conversation with my friends and family. While we women, we deal with our sex stories, the men I know young, liberal and conservative are doing the same thing from another angle. An old conservative friend told me he was thinking of apologizing to a girl he once dated, who he kissed in his car. She had not said no and had even given back her kiss. But he's worried she had felt pressured. A close, progressive friend also told me a story he's sorry for. He's now guessing what the woman with whom he had had the bad experience in college thinks: Has he left any trauma? Or is it too arrogant to assume that she simply remembers his name?

These assumptions would never have happened without Gretchen Carlson and Lara Sertakian, or Selma Blair and Rose McGowan, or even without Kylefrey-Ryan and hundreds of others who reported their confessions to him. They deserve our praise and gratitude.

Isn't all this kind of ridiculous persecution? There's no way that you're still reading this article, a man not doing anything like that.

“Believe in all women” has given the unit of a life-giving correction of a historical injustice. It seemed like a reasonable response to a system in which the crimes committed against women were as intimate, humiliating as no one else was too hard to prove.

But I can't stop the next feeling that tells me this will open up terrible new problems in response to old problems.

In less than two months, we've been spent on charges uncovered against Harvey Weinstein's criminal behavior in criminalizing behavior we used to take simply as rude and arrogant [Glen Thrush]. In a climate in which sexual practices are quickly transformed, many men are asking: If I am wrongly accused, who will believe me?

You know the answer many women would give or give: Fear. We were scared all the time. It's your turn for sleepless nights. They will say: If some innocent people fall down in an attempt to bring down the patriarchism, so be it.

Emily Lindin, a columnist at Teen Vogue, summed up this view Conciusly last week on Twitter. I'm actually not so worried about innocent men losing their jobs because of false accusations of sexual harassment or insults,” she wrote. “If the reputation of some innocent men should fall through the process of undoing patriarchism, then that's the price I'm fully willing to pay. ”

Mrs. Lindin was sharply criticized, but let's say this about her: at least she had advice to publicly articulate her views with which many women agree when they speak privately. A very large number of innocent women, my friends, wonder why we're getting sick about the possibility of many good people becoming innocent victims of all this work?

I think concern is justifiable. And it's not like I don't feel the impulse to blow everything to the ground. It's that I think the “s of all women” can quickly become an Orthodox ideology that will not serve women at all. As the terrible horrors women face in recent weeks have shown, the answer to them cannot be a new and strict solidarity that would further limit the definition of women and that harm completely different experiences simply based on our gender. I don't think that helps women. Or men.

I believe that the feminist vision “of the faith of all women” purposelessly fertilizes women. Women are no longer considered human and imperfect. They are personified as truth itself. They are beyond reproach.

I think it's ignorant to think that women and the claims they make cannot stand the question and can't even face doubts. I believe the facts serve much more feminists than belief. It's better with the process than with the rules of the crowd.

Maybe it'll happen tomorrow, or maybe next week or maybe next month. But Duke lacrosse's moment, Roling Stone's moment will come. The women's charges will prove to be highly exaggerated or simply false. And if the governing principle of this movement is still on the matter of trust, many people will lose that religion. They will reject all charges as false. And we will return to the status quo in which the word of Angela is more valuable than isobel's true word.

There are limits to the “belief of all women”. We've already started seeing them.

Just yesterday, said the Washington Post reported that a woman named Jaime Phillips wrote a letter telling about Roy Moore. She claimed that in 1992, when he was 15, he got pregnant and then took her to Mississippi to have an abortion. No part of it is true.

It seems that Mrs. Phillips was cooperating with the Veritas Project, an organization that tries to expose media prejudices éinstream through hidden operations, and that the group's goal was to humiliate The Washington Post and also discredit other Mr. Moore.

The mission failed spectacularly, thanks to the professionalism of Post reporters, but it is clear that the Veritas Project was exploiting that moment. It's also not hard to imagine how this episode would have damaged Mrs. Phillips if she made her accusations public, say, on Twitter. Or if she gave her confession to other news organizations. In this climate, it would have caught fire.

This is exactly what happened, at least with the right media, in the case of Al Frankenstein's accuser, Melanie Morgan. There are already many women who have accused Senator Franken of harassment, but in the days following the allegations of Leanne Tweden, Mrs Morgan, a radio speaker, claimed that she too was harassed by the senator in question after a 2000 appearance in “Politically not correct” [Politicaally Incorrect] of Bill Maher. The Internet simply came out of the fact that another woman had accused Mr Franken. No confirmation without anything.

Breitbart and Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh presented her confession immediately. Melanie Morgan had praised Sean Hannity's story for the persistent search for truth in the case of sexual charges against Roy Moore. Melanie Morgan had said that Bill O'Reilly was fired for suspicious reasons.” Melanie Morgan had been among others who had promoted the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the US and therefore had no right to be president.

She also claims that Mr. Franken had scared her terribly... because she had called him three times on the phone. Do you believe Mr. Franken has been watching Miss Morgan? Not me.

The zeal of “the confidence of all women” can also remove a strange path in which women are taught how to understand their past. The same year that Mrs Morgan raised her claims, Arianna Huffington took a picture of The New York Post showing Fraken holding his ass and chest. These photos are already being released as evidence of his sexual misconduct. An anonymous source who saw that picture said: “Arianna was pushing his hands across. He was picking on her. There was a bit of a joke between them, but she was not comfortable with it. She definitely told him to stop, and she pushed him. ”

But Mrs. Huffington says that's not true. The idea she was being harassed, she said on Twitter, “makes sexual harassment irrelevant because I was more insisting on taking pictures than the one who harassed me.” The disturbing assumption behind this is that Mrs. Huffington is a victim simply because of gender.

Arianna Huffington is not a packaged figure: she is accused of looking too exposed between her society. But shouldn't we believe what she says?

We should not allow men to be humans, and women to remain women only. I thought feminism should free us from the destruction of our identity. We should be allowed to be human.

What we owe all people, including women, is to listen, respect, and take them seriously. But we do not owe an unconditional faith to anyone.

<x) But it's far from better politics.

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