I was just starting to like humanity, but then Dennis Prager wrote this:
Second, "sexual harassment" is so all-inclusive as to be largely meaningless: "sexist comments about their academic abilities, sexist comments about their athletic abilities unwanted romantic attention, demeaning gender-related comments, teasing based on their appearance, and unwanted physical contact."
If a girls bra is snapped in elementary or high school; if a girl is told she should learn to throw a ball "like a guy does"; if a boy pursues a girl and fails in his pursuit -- these are all instances of sexism and sexual harassment.
What this thinking leads to is girls and women seeing themselves as victims, and almost as often to the emasculation of boys. (And then women looking to marry a man wonder where all the masculine men are).
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Dennis, I honestly don't know where to start. Snapping a girls bra may not be enough of an offense to get the police involved. But to say that it isn't a form of sexual harassment? Are you out of your fucking gord? Do you really view women as so subhuman that they should have to put up with this shit on a daily basis?
Please read this report:
Both nonphysical and physical harassment are prevalent. The most common experience is being the target of sexual comments, jokes, gestures, or looks, an occurrence experienced by two-thirds of all students. The second most common experience is being touched, grabbed, or pinched in a sexual way. Nearly half (49 percent) of all students report this type of harassment: 57 percent of girls and 42 percent of boys.
Whether or not Prager cares to admit it, unwanted physical contact is a serious problem in our schools today. Being a conservative, you'd think he would realize that acts of aggression should be prevented and punished. But maybe conservatism these days is nowhere near as principled as it should be. It seems to condone aggression when it better suits its so-called values. They believe that the female body belongs to men as a rule, so of course they approve of sexual harassment.
Also, see this comment on Townhall.com:
Do all women deserve respect? I’m not sure that a woman who dresses like a prostitute deserves it. As Dr. Laura says, you shouldn’t advertise your body if it’s not for sale. Radical feminists certainly don’t deserve respect just because they’re women. That would contradict their whole ideology.
There you have it: today's conservative view on gender relations. "If the bitch didn't want it, she shouldn't have worn that short skirt." Despicable.