“The urgent question we face in this moment is why half the population...refuses to believe the millions of women who say sexual harassment and assault shape our lives, and are maintaining our inequality.” Written as if “A, therefore B.” Wrong. 1/3https://medium.com/@schemaly/why-dont-good-men-believe-women-23be0ce607c9?source=linkShare-4bc221cd62fc-1539920976 …
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I propose: A’, and NOT B A’ = Most women experience sexual harassment or assault at some point (but most men do not engage in same.) Not B: To the degree that there is inequality, much of it favors women: greater college attendance & graduation rates, less incarceration… 2/3
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Furthermore: “half the population persistently refuses to believe…women”? No. But many people do look at absurd “A therefore B” constructions and reject them. This is not vile, or disrespectful, or misogynist. Rejecting bad arguments is, in fact, exactly what we need. 3/3
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Replying to @HeatherEHeying
So I have a cognitive disconnect that hopefully can be clarified. 2. Claims seem to be vague....at least in my own mind of harassment/assault. Is catcalling included in these claims? Are they proximity claims? Touching claims? Rape? So I also have an empathy disconnect.
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Re the cognitive disconnect: Most women are harrassed at some point, or at many points. Few women are actually assaulted. I think that most women don’t talk about these experiences widely—until now—but that doesn’t mean they don’t happen. 1/2
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Re the empathy disconnect: I get it. It is true that being ogled, catcalled, propositioned, even sometimes touched, is (or at least was, in the 80s & 90s) practically background noise for walking around the world as a young woman. But how many of those things are harassment? 2/2
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