Men now avoid women at work - another sign we're being punished for #MeToo

[Hortensis]

24. :) That's the balance we need. You are not a fearful person

and your reasonable acceptance suggests you're naturally this way when it comes to most social issues. At least as many naturally have darker views of humanity and tend to be more fearful and suspicious.

Not our primary care physician. He practices alone and he and I were alone in the room when he gave me my annual last week. He was perfectly safe in his trust in and respect for me, but I would not have been insulted if his assistant had at least found something to do nearby with the door mostly open instead of ajar. In fact, working in risk management years ago made me permanently concerned about no protection at all. Balance.

I'm sure those were among the reasons most media provided such unbalanced coverage. The usual.

I do call behaviors extremist and people who behave that way habitually extremists because almost no one does today for various reasons. The result is that extreme behaviors are normalized instead of being called out for what they are. That mistake is a big part of how we got into our current political mess. Extremism has grown in various sectors, has taken over the Republican Party, and is threatening to destroy our democracy. We owe the 70+ years of peace and prosperity in our and other nations between the last world war and 1980 or so in large part to being able to keep extremism on both left and right checked during that period.