All of this in the article is something I’ve been saying less eloquently for years. One of the many events that pushed me away from the left and so-called progressivism is their perfect willingness to make their movement about harming those already downtrodden, and to uphold the values and norms of corporations and the already-powerful against the weak.
Because women are more likely than men to experience physical and sexual threat in their daily lives, they are also more likely to judge others (usually men) to be creepy. Judgments of creepiness, however, are not necessarily reliable.
Conventional wisdom tells us to ‘trust our gut’, but researchers say that our gut is concerned more with regulating the boundaries of social mores than keeping us safe.
A while ago, I saw someone on Tumblr claiming how abominable some dude in his late 50s was for dating a woman in her late 30s, how he was obviously a horrible predator. People, if a woman in her late 30s can’t make decisions about who she wants to date, what’s the point? Women might as well be restricted from leaving the house without the company of a male relative (I think tons of progressives secretly wish for this).
I know it doesn’t make me popular, but it’s clear that most of the “protection from harm” prog showboating is just for the purposes of policing assortative mating, upholding au courant social mores, and eliminating rivals from the dating market.