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.
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.