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The Metoo Movement has backfired!

Malik00
The Metoo Movement has backfired!

This is gonna be a shorter my take compared to what i'm used to, but i wanted to highlight 2 stories that came out recently.


The first one is from the new york times, The world economic forum was held in davos Switzerland where they talked various topics such as cybersecurity, populism and war.

However, one of the topics that came up was the concern regarding mentoring women in the metoo era, it basically boiled down to concerns about female employees being much too volatile and having anything a male manager say or do being taken out of context and used to completely destroy his life.

As a result many of them have decided to just avoid women altogether, leading to women being stuck in basically a career limbo, where they can't get mentored because most managers are male and a lot of men don't wanna risk their entire livelihood just to help a woman get ahead.

Now i know there are many women who will be like "They should man up" or "False accusations are rare" and all this other regurgitated garbage. Let's use an analogy to get my point across. Imagine you have a bear just standing in the middle of the road, however you see there are at least 3 different paths around the bear that would take little to no time off your traveling route, in other words trying to move the bear out from the road would do absolutely nothing to benefit you. So would you still try to move the bear?

Of course not, it's a massive risk for zero gain, and that's how male managers see women, why should they risk their job, their reputation and potentially their life just to help someone get ahead who A. Likely only sees him as a stepping stone and B. Could potentially cost me everything just because i said i word she didn't like? No one in their right mind would take a gamble like that ok? No one. And that's why we are at the situation we are at right now, because for these male higher ups it's just easier to avoid the problem altogether and i feel that eventually it will get to the point where men won't even hire women, considering them too much of a risk.

The other story i wanna talk about, involves a man and 2 women in downtown LA. Long story short is the man was having a fit over an overpriced hotdog at 6 dollars(Seriously? no hotdog is worth 6 bucks.) Anyway. These 2 women who were walking by walked up to the man and demanded he leave, eventually it escalated into an altercation where the man pretty much bodied both women before running off, however no one is sure who actually threw the first punch

Now i want to make this perfectly clear that I am not defending this man's actions in anyway, he acted in a way that was rash and inappropriate and should be held accountable. In fact it's recently been reported he's turned himself in, having said that.

You see a grown man, and he is clearly hostile, he is twice your size and your first idea is to basically tell him to piss off? Honestly I'm convinced that the only reason she had such proverbial balls was because she assumed that some of the onlookers would intervene if the guy tried anything......they didn't. Most of them sat back and watched and just let the guy go, and i'm gonna be honest, i probably would have done the same.

I don't know either of these 2, and they confronted him, why should I get involved? And sure enough the women were more surprised that no one helped her as opposed to her getting laid out on the floor.

I guess what i'm trying to say is, this is further proof that those advocating for equality didn't really understand what that actually meant. I feel that if you are a woman it's time to ask yourself, do you wanna be an equal? Or a woman?

If you wanna be a woman, consider going back to traditional femininity and make it clear that's what you want and how you want to be treated from the outset.

If you wanna be treated like an equal, you must also teach yourself to not let trivial things bother you, understand that more often then not things like an arm around your shoulder is suppose to be endearing as guys often do it too.

And most importantly, if you pick a fight with a man, expect to get hit back. Do not think that someone is gonna come in and save you, as most men go into confrontations assuming no one has their back.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you want to be treated as an equal, you yourself have to be willing to be one of the guys(Basically be more of a tomboy)

Sorry i know i was probably kind of all over the place with this one.

The Metoo Movement has backfired!
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