I don’t think this MeToo stuff is a deliberate strategy on the part of the women. Here’s how I see it:
It’s often said that women tend to be more emotional and have a collective, hive-mind mentality that emphasizes empathy, nurturance, and mutual support. By contrast, men are said to be more logical and have an individualistic, lone-wolf mentality that emphasizes organization and structure. In fact, this contrast is a staple of marriage counseling and self-help books on relationships: Traditional therapy strives diligently to teach men to be more sensitive and less unemotionally logical, and it strives to teach women to operate less off their immediate feelings and to think more logically.
The difference between the sexes is explained this way:
For many millennia, women were slaves to their biology. To have sex was to have babies. To have babies was to be dependent on men, especially during the period of pregnancy and early infancy of the baby. Thus women were nurturers who remained back at the cave or the camp or the tribe and operated together with the other women in “collective mode.” (Later they were also field workers, but that also tended to be collective labor, at least in the tribal setting.)
Meantime, men were analytical hunters, thoughtful, strategizing, planning, brooding, tool-making, etc. They operated in teams, but teams have leaders and the brainwork was done separately and individually. Thus, men demonstrate more of a loner, logical mentality.
Okay, with a nice, simple difference like emotion vs logic, one can take something like the current #MeToo phenomenon and speculate how it might tie in. For example:
Women operate in a female collective, “hive-mind,” emotional mode, which manifests itself today in the form of hashtag campaigns and big marches, movements, etc.
By comparison, men don’t have a hive-mind mentality. They don’t do things like hashtag campaigns. Instead, they look at things more analytically. When it comes to the #MeToo campaign, they ask: What are the laws here? Has due process been followed? etc.
This can result in clashes between the sexes. With women in charge of it, the MeToo movement is kind of disorganized and noisy and tends to lump minor abuses together with major abuses. Men complain about that: Is the MeToo movement about rape or is it just about men simply being pushy? There are big differences in the legality there. But that kind of logical mindset tends to anger the women. They don’t want to hear about that stuff. They just see it all as abuse and want to get it all out in the open in a big orgiastic rush “and let God sort it out.”
A lot of women insist that they don’t want to ruin the careers of the minor offenders; they’re just pointing out abuses. And they probably really think that way. Since they aren’t strategic thinkers, they aren’t worrying about the consequences of their accusations. They just want to make a big noise.
Still, it *does* ruin men’s careers. Also it kind of freaks men out. Men say, “but rape and sexual harassment are already illegal in the workplace! What more do you want from us?!” Also, men look at the MeToo movement from their own point of view: Men tend to project “man-hating” onto these hive-mind movements, because men figure that they themselves would have to really hate someone to get that organized or angry. But the women probably aren’t really thinking that far ahead. It’s just about making a big noise to point out perceived abuses.
Anyway, sooner or later the pendulum will swing back. Sooner or later enough men will stand up and say, “Ladies, if you have a problem, then take it to the cops. Quit ruining men’s careers with unsubstantiated accusations.”
But until then, I just say oh well. As long as the MeToo-ers keep going after Hollywood and media liberals, then I’m not really shedding any tears for those particular guys.
Just my own opinion, of course.
sjt1975 1 year, 11 months ago.
