tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post7295875512811805372..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: The two minute hate against sexual harassmentagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88505306281428492712008-09-16T19:28:00.000-04:002008-09-16T19:28:00.000-04:00Good point agnostic.I've covered part of this on m...Good point agnostic.<BR/><BR/>I've covered part of this on my blog, on "Why It's Always 1968" ... I think part of the reason for the culture wars was demographic.<BR/><BR/>There's a huge drop-off in births from 1965 to 1966 -- I don't know why it happened but I suspect that the pill was introduced widely back then.<BR/><BR/>The demographic echoes of that drop-off, which was sustained and only ticked up a bit in the late 1980's seems to me to have shifted the US from a Youth Culture orientation to one of Boomer control.<BR/><BR/>That's contrary to the assumptions in the media and otherwise, but seems to me to be the reality. <BR/><BR/>These culture wars were merely Boomers flexing their muscle on PC, Sexual Harassment, Multiculturalism, and such.<BR/><BR/>As Peter says, look at say "Sixteen Candles" or "Major League" to take two examples. "Long Duc Dong," or the hilarious Dennis Haysbert voodoo character would not be able to be portrayed today -- only the fat white guy gets the jokes and is funny in today's movies. Apatow flat out told a PC-driven LA Times Critic (Carina Chocano) that PC is why no minority or woman is funny in his films -- because he'd get too many complaints.<BR/><BR/>Young people lack demographic strength to break the Boomer grip on the PC culture wars (which tracks with the oldest boomers turning 40 and being influential enough to change culture) would be my explanation.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29869889475475228562008-09-16T18:13:00.000-04:002008-09-16T18:13:00.000-04:00Michael Crichton detailed (through a character) in...Michael Crichton detailed (through a character) in his novel "State of Fear" the appearance of the word "CRISIS" in the network media post 1989' (Berlin Wall coming down). The media picked up "Crisis" and wouldn't put it down for 15 damned years. They beat the republic up with it. Beaucoup crisis' that was all the populace's fault. It was disgusting and cruel. Its psychological brutality to continually tell the people that the sky if falling and its their fault if they dont vote for X or Y, but the media does it. "Crisis" was a seldom used word in the network news before 89', but its usage skyrocked thereafter. Intelligent people can tell there is something to this...........<BR/><BR/><BR/>I remember the early nineties very well (I was there man) and do indeed remember the date rape "pandemic on our college campuses" as breathless reporterettes used to put it. I actually asked a group of pals while watching MNF and drinking brews back then....."Would any of you actually hold a girl down and make her ride it out?" after discussing the hysteria in the media. All of them emphatically said "HELL NO!". There were too many gals that wanted and liked to fuck for us back then for any of us to even consider this. Im sure its the same now. <BR/><BR/>What disgusts me so much about "the establishment" is the fact that they get to set the meme, write the books and newspapers, and enter the things into "the record". They get to lie about what went on out there. Its infuriating. There never was a date-rape crisis. If he doesnt' call you in the morning, that does not constitute a rape. Even the horniest loser isn't stoooopiiiid, and knows he is facing serious prison time to actually put bruises on some woman's wrists holding her down and vaginally raping her. She calls the cops, they do a rape kit, they find the vag-tears and see the bruises on her wrists-----and the guy is fucked legally. In a world where (apologies to Don LaFontaine) you can take a plane to Vegas and get laid 10 times for 2K, it just makes no sense at all to risk that many years in prison for bad sex (how could a rape be good sex???). <BR/><BR/>Maybe Im just too old fashioned a romantic, or hell maybe Im narcissitic, but I'd never want to have sex with a woman who didn't genuinely want it with me. I cannot fathom men who would force it on a unwilling female. Thats why I think some limited prostitution in certain places (like Vegas) is a good thing. If a man is going out of his mind for sex post-divorce or whatever, and just cant obtain it to save his life---he can buy it with someone willing to exchange it for coin. It should let the steam off of him until he secures someone new in his life. <BR/><BR/><BR/>I think Dusk has went over it before, but the drug-date-rape phenomena was mostly bullshit also. I know there are some isolated incidences (I actually seen an episode of COPS where one dork got caught trying to spike a girls drink) but this is not a widespread phenomena like the media would have had us believe circa 2002-2004 or so. However I must admit, if caught, a guy should be doing serious time if convicted of doing something like that. I wouldn't want my daughter to be raped------but I sure as hell wouldn't want my son falseley accused of rape either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-56861335311443300542008-09-16T11:01:00.000-04:002008-09-16T11:01:00.000-04:00I never even heard the term "sexual harassment" pr...I never even heard the term "sexual harassment" prior to the Hill/Thomas hearings in 1991. Keep in mind that I had been in the working world for several years at that point and considered myself reasonably well-informed. What's more, I worked at the time in a state government agency, the sort of workplace that might be more sensitive to such things than a private-sector employer.<BR/><BR/>Of course, things were different in other respects back then ... for instance, as late as the middle to late 1980's mild ethnic humor was not completely taboo in the workplace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com