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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]95% of all rapes, assaults of any kind, and sexual crimes against children are committed by men.  I don't know why we are letting any more of them in this country, especially without making them submit to extensive background checks as they register and then be monitored while they are here.

Because they are men.[/quote]
+1. The free pass for men is about to expire and they're getting upset. Tough shit, m*therf*ckers. We've suffered enough at your hands and your time to do as you please has ended. [/quote]

Nooo. I don't have a free pass, you haven't suffered at my hands, and I've never been able to do as I please, so that time is not ending. Actually, after the fuss dies down, rich guys out in Los Angeles will continue to harass women, I'm guessing, so their time has not ended. Basically, you're confusing being angry about the misfortunes of famous and pretty people somewhere else with having a point.  Get off the Internet and do something constructive for non-movie-starlets, women in your own town. Go campaign against Roy Moore.[/quote]

If you are a man, and you truly believe that you have "never been able to do as I please", then you really don't understand the place of privilege you occupy in society nor the lack of those privileges that others suffer.  Perhaps you feel that you have never sexually harrassed or assaulted a woman, and I am not doubting that is true, but as a man you have generally been able to move thru society in a way your peers have not (and this is true even for non-white men, when compared to same race/ethnicity female peers).

To acknowledge that is not excluding the possibility that, as a man, sexism has also had a negative burden on your life and the lives of all men, nor is it to exclude the possibility that you suffer other restraints in your life due to racism, classism, homophobia, erc.

To make an analogy -- I am a white female who grew up in the North and whose entire family is from the North and no family member ever owned slaves.  Just because I come from a line of people who never directly exploited African-Americans doesn't mean that I didn't benefit from the system of slavery and institutionalized racism.  I can still recognize that, even today, I can move thru the world with fewer fetters than a person of color does and thus enjoy a certain kind of privilege, while still experiencing the deep constraints of sexism in my life.[/quote]

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