"These are men who profit from other people's work," Lakeman said of the celebrities and business and political elites. "Their jobs barely exist as independent. It is the nature of hierarchy to rip off the people below."
"We are dealing with a global behavior," Lakeman went on. "This women's action is pointing out the behavior of powerful men throughout the industrial West. Women are deciding to tell bosses, liberal institutions and managers this behavior has to stop. They are going public immediately. No one trusts the liberal institutions, the owners or the managers to handle this."
"Part of this tactic is to say that whether you like it or not we are going to oppose this, whether we win or not we will oppose this, whether we get the proper results or not we will oppose this," Lakeman said. "This is spectacular. This is what it takes to make a difference. Collectively we seem to have agreed on whom to go after -- the men who are holding economic, social and cultural power. It is astounding how these guys are being selected. Sexual harassment is only one face of this. We hate these men for their profiteering, their representation of what it means to be a man, their abuses of power. And even the 'good guys' who slide into this behavior have to be shown up. It has to stop. I don't think it will end with men who hold this kind of power. But there is a very wise consensus that says we should go after the men we all agree on and behavior that is at once menacing and pathetic."
The women's revolt understands that our institutions, including those on the left, will not defend us. We must defend ourselves.
"We are looking at the end of the Roman Empire," Lakeman said. "We are looking at people grasping in all manner of disgusting ways for power. Women are looking for a way out. They are looking for a way to address some of this. We have been denied all the promised ways. This is the result of 50 years of feminist work against violence. Those who hold positions of corporate and political power are very nervous. They can't control this. There is a genuine uprising, and no one can find the leader to shut it down."
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