One of the reasons I continue to read Clarissa’s Blog is that she’s one of the few who contemplates the new sexual and social norms other than reactively.

What I mean is that she analyzes what is occurring and its likely causes and effects as opposed to what people believe they are achieving. For instance, the good-intentioned #metoo movement is opposed to sexual harassment and exploitation. Good intentions, though, are not enough. Because it, like most everything else, is infected with and inflected with notions of neoliberal fluidity, it does more to enforce assortative mating and atomization than it does to combat actual harassment. Due to the cultural moment and weltanschauung in which it is embedded, it could hardly do anything else.

The new sexual mores and beliefs are leading to consumerism and consumer “choice” cannibalizing all else. Liberals use the excuse of “protection from harm” to enforce such strict sexual norms that the Victorians would’ve been shocked by their rigidity. Meanwhile, there is no place for a natural interaction as these are by default seen as déclassé, unconventional, or outright harassment no matter their harmlessness or intent.

The future is likely mediated interactions where you essentially choose mates from a serial list of algorithmically-collated choices and dating outside of this will be seen as extremely risky and very harmful in particular to women. I expect it to also lead to much stricter dress codes for both sexes, but of course being worse by far for women.