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The #MeToo Movement Will Produce Victims of Its Own

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Whether by intention or by an idea running its course, men have been set up. They have been forced by civil rights laws to bring women into their midst, and the women are now being empowered with a tool to push aside the men with the Identity Politics charge that heterosexual men are sexual predators.

Just as rebellious children who equate parental control with abuse have learned that relief from parental control is just a phone call away to Child Protective Services, feminists have gained the power to bring down men on sexual harassment charges. I have no doubt that those of both genders, or should I say all genders, have grown more abusive with time. Formerly, people were held together by family ties and marriage, and their behavior was regulated by religion and by having "to look oneself in the mirror." Today these ties only weakly exist. People are individuals a la Ayn Rand, into it for themselves and preoccupied with their own personal interests and looking out for themselves alone. In his book, "The Old Regime and the Revolution," Alexis De Tocqueville wrote that being out for oneself is the very definition of modernity. Commitment is so diminished that the divorce rate in the US is 50% of marriages.

There are a number of reasons that heterosexual males do not regard their approaches to women as sexual harassment. To remind those who confuse an explanation with an excuse, this is an explanation. One reason is that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, formerly celebrated by feminists, along with birth control and access to birth control, made women as promiscuous as men. The age of sexual maturity for females has dropped, and today there are many young women not of legal age who are very sexually experienced. Sex lost its stigma, and Cosmopolitan Magazine continues to celebrate the sexually liberated woman.

What the #MeToo movement is doing, based as it is in the exploitative ethos of cultural Marxism, is turning women's sexual liberation into the sexual harassment of women by men.

When you think about America, what do you see? A society falling apart at the seams. A government unable to represent anyone but the rich and powerful. A government in thrall to powerful interests such as the military/security complex, which requires endless wars of aggression and a police state domestically to suppress dissent from the wars; a government whose economic policy is in thrall to Wall Street and which has created enormous amounts of money pumped into stock prices in the guise of "helping the economy." Only equity owners have been helped. The distribution of income and wealth in the US is now worse than in many gangster states, according to the CIA itself.

With the collapse of civil liberty and the opportunity society, #MeToo is busy at work destroying the relationship between man and woman. It is difficult to imagine a worse crime. Will liberation come from the movement or only a change in who is harassed and a breakdown in the basic social relationship?

Note: I did not follow the Larry Nassar case beyond reading some media reports. The invasive procedure used by Nassar, treating the pelvic floor, was a known and approved one. It was turned into sexual abuse because Nassar did not explain the procedure and obtain consent and did not have a third party present during the treatment. When Nassar was arrested on child pornography charges, it threw a different light on his pelvic treatment, which involved the insertion of fingers into the vagina. The media reports I have seen do not say whether the procedure was an effective treatment. However, overall, Nassar appears to have been successful in treating women for sports injuries, which is why USA Gymnastics relied on him.

#MeToo women are not content with Nassar's life sentence. They regard the problem to be much larger than Nassar. They see the problem as pervasive coverup of sexual abuse by the US Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, and Michigan State University. The target is "a climate of serial sexual predation" in which all males (and females in denial) are guilty.

If there was a coverup, for example, by Michigan State University, was it because of "a climate of serial sexual predation," or was it because the university's attorneys were doing their job of protecting the university from civil lawsuits?

Are we witnessing the launching of a sexual abuse witch hunt that will have many innocent victims as did the child abuse witch hunt?

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Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration. He was associate editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He is a contributing editor to Gerald Celente's Trends Journal. He has had numerous university appointments. His books, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is available (more...)
 

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