The movement definitely created a chilling effect. A lot of guys now are simply afraid to talk to women in public. Everyone walks around in their own bubble. It’s incredibly lonely and isolating.
As for whether we should judge anything based on intent or on outcome, that’s a complicated question in itself. I’m afraid too many like to judge their friends/allies on intent but their opponents/enemies on outcome, always taking the least charitable interpretation. That’s altogether human, of course.
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
I still question if that chilling effect was actually the movement or the fascist/conservative spin put on it to radicalize young men. It’s practically identical to the anti-feminist propaganda that conservative political groups have been using for decades.
There are loads of guys who want nothing to do with the fascist movement, are not radicalized, and have no interest in harassing or assaulting women.
All the discourse online would have you believe that you’re either an ardent feminist champion of DEI or a MAGA-screaming, ICE-boosting ultra-fascist, with no room whatsoever in between. In the real world there’s just a lot of regular people walking around going about their lives, except now they hesitate when before they might not have.
Asking a stranger out for coffee was an incredibly rare event in the past. Now it’s become pretty much extinct as a practice. The dating app conglomerate Match Group couldn’t be happier because now they can cash in even more on people’s loneliness.
I’m not going to say that the #metoo movement is solely to blame for this phenomenon. A lot of other social trends have headed in the same direction. It’s another brick in the wall.
The movement definitely created a chilling effect. A lot of guys now are simply afraid to talk to women in public. Everyone walks around in their own bubble. It’s incredibly lonely and isolating.
As for whether we should judge anything based on intent or on outcome, that’s a complicated question in itself. I’m afraid too many like to judge their friends/allies on intent but their opponents/enemies on outcome, always taking the least charitable interpretation. That’s altogether human, of course.
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
I still question if that chilling effect was actually the movement or the fascist/conservative spin put on it to radicalize young men. It’s practically identical to the anti-feminist propaganda that conservative political groups have been using for decades.
There are loads of guys who want nothing to do with the fascist movement, are not radicalized, and have no interest in harassing or assaulting women.
All the discourse online would have you believe that you’re either an ardent feminist champion of DEI or a MAGA-screaming, ICE-boosting ultra-fascist, with no room whatsoever in between. In the real world there’s just a lot of regular people walking around going about their lives, except now they hesitate when before they might not have.
Asking a stranger out for coffee was an incredibly rare event in the past. Now it’s become pretty much extinct as a practice. The dating app conglomerate Match Group couldn’t be happier because now they can cash in even more on people’s loneliness.
I’m not going to say that the #metoo movement is solely to blame for this phenomenon. A lot of other social trends have headed in the same direction. It’s another brick in the wall.