http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/art...jhMiExFzIW

Some pushback on metoo.
quote from one of several commentators:

I am concerned that we are casting women as irremediably scarred by even minor, casual advances, and as incapable of competently and sensitively handling the commonplace instances in which men are drawn to them sexually and the feeling doesn’t happen to be mutual.
I am concerned that sex itself seems increasingly to be seen as dirty, and as a violation, a form of assault, so that we’re repackaging an old prudery in progressive wrapping paper. I am concerned that we are well on our way to demonising, if not criminalising, all male desire.
Turbocharged by social media, #MeToo may have gone too far. Rather than bringing the sexes together with improved mutual understanding, we are in danger of driving the sexes apart. If I were a man right now, I’d lock the door of my study with the intention of satisfying myself with internet porn for the indefinite future.

Tavis Smiley claims his half dozen relationships were consensual.

PBS's comments don't refute that. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tavi...d=51846939

Similarly, the Today Show is giving a segment to the woman who had a consensual relationship with Matt Lauer.

(12-18-2017 06:19 PM)bullet Wrote:  http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/art...jhMiExFzIW

Some pushback on metoo.
quote from one of several commentators:

I am concerned that we are casting women as irremediably scarred by even minor, casual advances, and as incapable of competently and sensitively handling the commonplace instances in which men are drawn to them sexually and the feeling doesn’t happen to be mutual.
I am concerned that sex itself seems increasingly to be seen as dirty, and as a violation, a form of assault, so that we’re repackaging an old prudery in progressive wrapping paper. I am concerned that we are well on our way to demonising, if not criminalising, all male desire.
Turbocharged by social media, #MeToo may have gone too far. Rather than bringing the sexes together with improved mutual understanding, we are in danger of driving the sexes apart. If I were a man right now, I’d lock the door of my study with the intention of satisfying myself with internet porn for the indefinite future.

In some ways, it seems like McCarthyism 2.0. I am so damn glad I'm not in the dating pool these days.