Sexual Harassment of the DAY
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…
Margaret Atwood on all of this. Some choice excerpts:
The #MeToo moment is a symptom of a broken legal system. All too frequently, women and other sexual-abuse complainants couldn't get a fair hearing through institutions – including corporate structures – so they used a new tool: the internet. Stars fell from the skies. This has been very effective, and has been seen as a massive wake-up call. But what next? The legal system can be fixed, or our society could dispose of it. Institutions, corporations and workplaces can houseclean, or they can expect more stars to fall, and also a lot of asteroids.
If the legal system is bypassed because it is seen as ineffectual, what will take its place? Who will be the new power brokers? It won't be the Bad Feminists like me. We are acceptable neither to Right nor to Left. In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated. Fiction writers are particularly suspect because they write about human beings, and people are morally ambiguous. The aim of ideology is to eliminate ambiguity.
- She's lauded in the intl press as a feminist prophet, yet slagged off at home by woke bansheesGnash
- Margaret F'ing Atwood isn't seen as a sufficiently feminist. what a broke bunch of twats this literary scene in canada is lousy withGnash
- Lol, it's not the literary scene attacking her.nb
- it isGnash
- (on top of the standard crew)Gnash
- specifically, about what's going on with UBCGnash
- here's just one drop from the canLit bucket: https://www.bitchmed…Gnash
- Social Justice Will Eat Itselfi_monk