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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a dude, so I honestly don't know. But the news recently makes it sound like a woman's life is a non-stop drum beat of sexual harassment; or perhaps a constant hum of low-level objectification punctuated by a rape or two that affects your view of sexuality for the rest of your life. If it's that way, I legitimately feel bad for you women.

Anyway, I liked Charles Blow's column, "This is a Man Problem." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/opinion/sexual-harassment-men-.html?_r=0

"[W]e have to focus on the fact that society itself has incubated and nourished a dangerous idea that almost unbridled male aggression is not only a component of male sexuality, it is the most prized part of it. We say to boys, be aggressive.
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Men have been so conditioned against emotional intelligence — that’s for women, we are told — that they are blithering idiots at reading the subtleties of allure or aversion. Guys become gamblers. They simply play the numbers. What nine women may find revolting the tenth may reward. They don’t even recognize what offense the nine may have experienced. They are blind to it. In the male mind, any peccadillo is excusable in the pursuit of compatibility. This kind of bulldozer, pelvis-first mentality is the foundation of the more aggressive, more intrusive behavior, and until we recognize that, we will count on the courts to correct something that our culture should correct."[/quote]

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