I had a very interesting conversation the other day with a male colleague of mine. He’s a very wonderful man and the same age as me, which is 62. So that puts us in the age of when things were much different at work than they are now.
Actually, not different just at work but just about every place we women exist in. What I mean by that is I have seen many changes over these 6 plus decades and we are definitely heading in the right direction. But we all know we have a long ways to go.
He thought it was very sad that all of these things were happening and it was making it unsafe for men in the workplace.
My response was dripping with sarcasm (that probably burned holes in the floor as it dripped off my teeth) “Oh how sad for you and all the men. It breaks my heart that you now feel a bit unsafe in the workplace. Must be terrible.”
This stopped him in his tracks for about half a second and then he continued to explain his point to me. I actually did understand what he was saying but the problem was, he was not understanding what I was saying.
And there we have it. I looked at him and asked “Have you ever told a man that he was acting inappropriately towards a woman?”
He sort of looked around and mumbled a few things while I sat back with my legs crossed and just looked at him with a bit of a smirk on my face. I couldn’t help it.
For that is the point. It’s not that we will get rid of men who act badly towards women. They will probably always exist. Always have and always will.
What we need are more men stepping up and putting those bad men in their place. You do that enough times and hopefully they will learn that they can’t get away with it anymore.
We don’t need any more talk about this. I’m sick and tired of having to hear this shit as it hits the fans. Yeah, I’m glad this is in the headlines and people are talking about it, but the question is, what are you willing to do about it?
I’ve survived, as many women have, endless times of being sexually harassed and assaulted. We women know all about this. I’m just sick and tired of good men looking at us with a blank stare and asking “What are you talking about?”
I’m sorry but they know damn well what we’re talking about. This is not something new to them and I think their objection is that they’re being held somewhat accountable now for the actions of others.
As well they should be.
Weinstein had a whole shitload of people that helped him with his abuse for decades. Believe it or not, it’s not so much his abuse and being a predator that pisses me off. It does, but it’s all of those people that helped him with it for so many years. He could have been stopped dead in his tracks if just one person had stood up to him. Okay maybe not one. Maybe it would have taken hundreds. I don’t know.
And maybe there were people that did and we haven’t heard about it. If so, I would like to hear from them and find out what happened.
Evil and badness exist simply because we let it.
So to all my male friends and colleagues that understand, I thank you.
Now you guys need to get the show on the road and get this shit to stop. We’re sick and tired of it.
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https://polldaddy.com/js/rating/rating.jsThis is truly a systemic problem that goes back to the “warrior” mindset-I’ve become convinced that nothing will change until we get that out of our systems. Unless and until we get the testoserone laden mindset of who has the biggest penis, weapons, or whatever out of our government, schools, and way of thinking, women will not be safe. Women have to rip this out of our lives. Where women and their cooperative way of thinking, their negotiation skills, and mediation ability are used to govern a society, both genders live in harmony and peace. It is the competitiveness of the warrior mindset that makes things so hazardous for the female-and there is not the first reason for still having it in the major nations of today’s world.
A really interesting point of view. I do believe it isn’t something that will change quickly and I suppose even if it did, it would never be completely gone.