#MeToo y la presunción expansiva de culpabilidad: "#MeToo had the potential to do good. It had the potential to reveal, to the vast majority of men who do not engage in bad behavior towards women, that the vast majority of women have, at some point in their lives, endured harassment that they should not have had to endure. #MeToo therefore also had the potential to reveal the obvious conclusion from putting those two truths side by side: a small minority of men engage in bad behavior towards a large majority of women.
Instead, #MeToo became a free-for-all, in which accusations became ever more frivolous; all men were considered guilty, or potentially guilty; and asking for evidence of claims was considered victim blaming. Hasn’t she endured enough? Who would lie about something like that! Into that morass it should surprise no one that bad actors showed up, and false accusations mounted. As elsewhere in the ideology of the far Left, #MeToo seemed to be shaping up to reverse historical oppression, rather than address the history, and help us move forward together to a more just future."
Manifestación y ceremonia: "Not that we couldn’t all use a little celebration in our lives, but when it’s quasi-mandated, especially coming on the heels of a train (or a canoe) that we’re told that we must board, or else betray the sisterhood, sorry, but it’s not for me. The fact that it has been monetized by those who benefit from making full-time consumers of all of us only pushes me further from embracing it."
Oportunidades y diferencias: "Should women, worldwide, have equal opportunities to work, to play, to choose, as men do? Of course. Should we expect men and women to make equivalent choices—and for the outcomes to therefore be equal? We should not. Should we, therefore, attribute to discrimination all gender differences—gender differences such as representation in types of jobs, or in hours worked, or in titles achieved? Not necessarily. There have been entrenched systems of gender discrimination in WEIRD countries in the past, and there still are quite entrenched systems of gender discrimination in other countries now. But the claim that, in the US, we are battling active and on-going discrimination against girls and women, when women are earning more college degrees, enrolling at higher rates in medical school and other health related fields, and even, at Google, making more money than men!—well, the claim is weak, at best."
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