I’ve not looked into it statistically and probably will not, but I’d bet pretty big money that the net effect of #MeToo was a fairly large reduction in relationship and household formation.
Mainly, #MeToo achieved two things. The first was to stupidly radicalize a lot of women in hugely harmful (mostly to them) ways. And the second was that it scared off normal, good men from talking with or flirting with women.
Like most of the inane crap the left does these days, a huge failure.
The left does seem to venerate weakness, the pathetic, general loserish-ness and scoundrels of all stripes if they are of the right color or “oppressed.” I cannot understand it but it is evil and dangerous.
An extremely easy way to set Gen Z off and distract them from substantive issues is to joke about anything to do with sex, especially if it’s between “unauthorized” groups, such as:
1) Anyone 2+ years older than anyone else in any relationship context (even friendship here).
2) Anyone in a different higher-status career field than their paramour.
3) Anyone blue collar vs. white collar.
4) Anyone who makes more money than their partner.
5) Anyone taller than their partner.
6) Anyone of a different race than their partner.
There are others, but those are the ones that really get their blood boiling. Of course, talk about sex in general does. But combine it with any one of those (try two or more for added fun!) to really cooks their brains.
In many ways, they are worse than the very worst prudes from our history. And that’s something, because we had literal fucking Puritans as founding stock.
Without Third World invasion, the crime rate in many parts of Western Europe would be 1/20th to 1/100th what it is now.
Disgusting.
Women’s priorities and their intrasexual competition was allowed to dominate entirely too many areas. We’re still paying for that to this day.
Women like poor, poor Jessica down there are resentful and affronted because they can’t date the 6’4″ billionaire with a private jet. Or when they do, it turns into a short fling and they do not commit. This is a female form of inceldom. And it’s not pretty.
Meanwhile, many men are resentful that no women anywhere are interested in them at all.
I think there’s a slight difference there.
Ah, one of those “feminist” dipshits who wants to invert the sexual double standards instead of just going for equality. Also, she’s just upset that women are no longer 100% of the time the sexual gatekeepers.
So, “feminism for thee but not for me.” Gotcha.
I have some ideas about why she’s single at 39…because any sane man would stay far, far, so very far away from whatever is going on there. You know there’d be a false rape accusation at the minimum in your near future, if not worse.
And you also know here that “mistreated other women” means that these men were with women who were not her — more attractive ones. Of course.
Agreed with all of this. That Carney speech was cornpone catastrophic crapola. It’s spineless and it’s daft. “Embrace decline and failure” isn’t the brilliant rhetorical and managerial masterstroke the intelligentsia is portraying it as. I guess they must be this way, though. The alternative is actually doing something substantive: undertaking large projects; reversing decline; declaring the West worth fighting for.
And you know none of that is going to happen. So you get that milquetoast garbage from Carney and ilk.
I started going out alone when I was seven, though I wasn’t allowed to roam that far. This was considered completely normal at the time, though in other ways my parents were neglectful. By the time I was around 9, though, I could go wherever I wanted. All the other kids I knew were the same.
We really have chosen the path of harming entire generations for no known reason.
One of the very worst things the Trump admin has done. I estimate it’ll reduce potential GDP by 5-8% over 25 years and make it more likely China dominates the future.
That has certainly occurred. The “scam economy” is the entire economy now. There is probably no going back. At least not for a long while.
So…like the normal way you’d get to know someone? Damn, #MeToo became so perverse and purely evil.
A lot of women really did go on some bizarro campaign to make normal relationships and any “unauthorized” instances of attraction verboten. And the backlash was immense and well-deserved.
For the unattractive men, what’s a harsh memory that sticks with you?
I don’t think I’m unattractive any longer, but growing up my North Florida compatriots certainly thought I was lower than pond scum by any measure.
That said, my experiences were similar to this dude’s: More than once, girls/women approached me completely unprompted to tell me how hideous I was and to not even think of asking them out.
This was with me not even looking their way or even noticing them (as they were themselves nothing special). Of course, this is just a female version of bullying. Women tend to be non-physical with it.
Just leaving North Florida eliminated 99.9999% of that type of thing. The nature there is great; the people are fucking terrible.
The Israelis killed more children under 5 than there were children under 5. That’s quite a trick. They must’ve been resurrecting then killing them again.
The true death toll in the Gaza is around 30,000-50,000, most fighting-age males. That’s still a lot, to be clear. But not any form of genocide. That’s just what it looks like when you badly lose a war you stupidly started.
If anyone starts tracking my location, I will find them and I will kill them.
Simple.