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In reply to the discussion: Dear Democrats (and everyone else) calling on Sen. Franken to resign: [View all]Jarqui
(10,409 posts)32. This is a strawman and not what I have claimed:
What you are calling basic reasoning is based in the misogynistic expectation that targets of sexual harassment will act in a certain way, and when they don't - or not enough of them do - you "reason" that the harassment must not have occurred.
a) it is not a misogynistic expectation because I maintained (above) my position whether the assault/indiscretion was (to state even more explicitly) male to male, male to female, female to male or female to female. In all of those various circumstances, people have a tendency to avoid an embarrassing/awkward social situation. Regardless of your wishful thinking, women do not have a monopoly on those emotions/reactions in those circumstances. Those reactions are human - experienced by either sex. Therefore, trying to pin misogyny on this is desperate, irrational nonsense - or prejudicial against men.
b) I do not reason that "that the harassment must nothave occurred". I reason that as the number of incidents increase, if there is no deviation in the reactions - if we see no reaction in the photos, no complaint to the police, no face slap, etc, harassment is less likely to have occurred. That is not the same thing as "must not" with a probability of zero. It means that it is less likely - the probability is less.
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Dear Democrats (and everyone else) calling on Sen. Franken to resign: [View all]
TygrBright
Dec 2017
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Every Dem Senator calling for Franken to resign, better be prepared to resign as well
nadine_mn
Dec 2017
#20
TRUE, Tygrbright! What's this, "Oh, we don't want to impeach Trump" but "Franken needs to resign"???
Honeycombe8
Dec 2017
#22