Cultural change appears to stop when it has been acknowledged as just by the conscious mind, but the unconscious minds are still just not able to accept. The author is catching that pretty clearly, I think. Collectively, you get a "societal unconscious" that's just passively resisting, has to be led by the hand to every acknowledgement, certainly every conviction.
This is what Niels Bohr meant when he said that old ideas aren't really changed, those who hold them just die off. The change is happening, but it has slowed down to the rate of old soldiers dying off. It's important to concentrate on making the young a different generation.
There is little with in the justice system to address it either as we see the sentences are the bare minimum to almost nothing at all. The justice system has betrayed victims in the promotion of rehabilitation. Since the Liberals have been in office many more offences have been reduced. For those who say they champion social justice, the reduced sentences and lack of any palatable sentencing is just another slap in the face to the victims of sexual crimes especially when perpetuated on the most vulnerable, our children.
It doesn't help that the media has focused an extraordinary amount of attention on the false claims. So people wonder, especially if the accused is well-known, whether the woman is "just after money", or revenge. That's a stereotype we've often seen portrayed in old movies and books - the beautiful but evil, manipulative woman.
It isn't just our institutions as noted in this piece, it is society as a whole. There is a whole movement out there that some of us believe directly sprung up in response to #metoo and to keep women down. Women simply don't have value - and sexual assault survivors of either sex have absolutely no value whatsoever. It is a terrible thing about humanity - we place no value on the courage and strength of character it takes to come out and admit that something terrible happened to you. We hold trials where instead of the accuser, the victim and their past are on trial. We hold winning a ridiculous trophy more important than the life of a young man that was turned upside down. It is disgusting.
#MeToo couldn't really survive in a world where nurses are forced to give up their bodily autonomy and undergo a medical procedure, useless to many of them (because they have already had Covid and are therefore immune), against their strongly-expressed will, in order to keep their jobs.
This is even more true when those who do refuse to give in are vilified by the public, officials, and many of their friends and family, and are further punished by being denied EI.
The fact that the whole thing is unnecessary because frequent testing of all health care workers, vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, would provide far more protection than forced vaccination without testing, only adds insult to injury.
I thought the column was about consent and women's control over their bodies, and what happens to them when they refuse consent and assert that control in defiance of powerful men. Silly me!
I should have thought it would be obvious, but the point is that we now live in a world where women (and teens, and soon children) don't have control over their bodies, and are forced to violate those bodies in order to soothe the psychological needs of others. #MeToo lived in a world of consent and female control over their own bodies, or at least a world where those things were officially valued. Now, many people (including women) are forced to take an injection they are terrified of in order to keep their livelihood, while the public applauds. Consent is dead - and so, therefore, is #MeToo
Typical - we're discussing sexual assault, #Metoo and the ramifications of sexual assault when people of power are in play and here is some guy wanting to change the channel because of course he does. *eye roll*
Cultural change appears to stop when it has been acknowledged as just by the conscious mind, but the unconscious minds are still just not able to accept. The author is catching that pretty clearly, I think. Collectively, you get a "societal unconscious" that's just passively resisting, has to be led by the hand to every acknowledgement, certainly every conviction.
This is what Niels Bohr meant when he said that old ideas aren't really changed, those who hold them just die off. The change is happening, but it has slowed down to the rate of old soldiers dying off. It's important to concentrate on making the young a different generation.
There is little with in the justice system to address it either as we see the sentences are the bare minimum to almost nothing at all. The justice system has betrayed victims in the promotion of rehabilitation. Since the Liberals have been in office many more offences have been reduced. For those who say they champion social justice, the reduced sentences and lack of any palatable sentencing is just another slap in the face to the victims of sexual crimes especially when perpetuated on the most vulnerable, our children.
It doesn't help that the media has focused an extraordinary amount of attention on the false claims. So people wonder, especially if the accused is well-known, whether the woman is "just after money", or revenge. That's a stereotype we've often seen portrayed in old movies and books - the beautiful but evil, manipulative woman.
Great piece, Kristin.
It isn't just our institutions as noted in this piece, it is society as a whole. There is a whole movement out there that some of us believe directly sprung up in response to #metoo and to keep women down. Women simply don't have value - and sexual assault survivors of either sex have absolutely no value whatsoever. It is a terrible thing about humanity - we place no value on the courage and strength of character it takes to come out and admit that something terrible happened to you. We hold trials where instead of the accuser, the victim and their past are on trial. We hold winning a ridiculous trophy more important than the life of a young man that was turned upside down. It is disgusting.
#MeToo couldn't really survive in a world where nurses are forced to give up their bodily autonomy and undergo a medical procedure, useless to many of them (because they have already had Covid and are therefore immune), against their strongly-expressed will, in order to keep their jobs.
This is even more true when those who do refuse to give in are vilified by the public, officials, and many of their friends and family, and are further punished by being denied EI.
The fact that the whole thing is unnecessary because frequent testing of all health care workers, vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, would provide far more protection than forced vaccination without testing, only adds insult to injury.
Yes, the column was really about vaccination, that was plain to see.
I thought the column was about consent and women's control over their bodies, and what happens to them when they refuse consent and assert that control in defiance of powerful men. Silly me!
Don’t pretend. You were changing the channel to what you wanted to talk about.
I should have thought it would be obvious, but the point is that we now live in a world where women (and teens, and soon children) don't have control over their bodies, and are forced to violate those bodies in order to soothe the psychological needs of others. #MeToo lived in a world of consent and female control over their own bodies, or at least a world where those things were officially valued. Now, many people (including women) are forced to take an injection they are terrified of in order to keep their livelihood, while the public applauds. Consent is dead - and so, therefore, is #MeToo
You're a little off topic, there, Mark. Save it for when the the discussion is about the damage Facebook has done to our society.
Typical - we're discussing sexual assault, #Metoo and the ramifications of sexual assault when people of power are in play and here is some guy wanting to change the channel because of course he does. *eye roll*