{"id":5717,"date":"2017-10-17T09:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T07:03:13","slug":"not-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5717\/","title":{"rendered":"Not I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy in Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5695&amp;cpage=1#comment-395678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asks my opinion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BTW, what are your thoughts on this latest \u2018me too\u2019 Facebook circular jerk. My guess is about 90% of those posting are unwanted advances not actual harrassment\/abuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be my guess too. Somebody started a &#8216;me too&#8217; hashtag on Twitter so women who&#8217;ve been subjected to sexual assault in the manner of Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s victims could let themselves be known, and several million (mainly American) women responded.<\/p>\n<p>This is self-indulgent, feminist-driven posturing. They have quite deliberately blurred the line between rape, sexual assault, and unwanted attention. Lewd remarks, being pestered by male colleagues in the office, and similar acts of unwanted interaction\u00a0<em>can<\/em> be pretty unpleasant, but they are <em>not<\/em> the same as demands for sexual favours or unwanted physical contact of an overtly sexual nature. Most women sharing the &#8216;me too&#8217; hashtag will simply be recalling the time a builder wolf-whistled at them to justify joining the victim bandwagon and advance their political agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It is little different from a man setting up a &#8216;me too&#8217; hashtag to highlight the serious issue of false rape allegations, and men retweet it if, at any point in their lives, they&#8217;ve ever been the victim of a woman&#8217;s lies. If ever there was a campaign guaranteed to achieve 100% saturation, that would be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy in Japan asks my opinion: BTW, what are your thoughts on this latest \u2018me too\u2019 Facebook circular jerk. My guess is about 90% of those posting are unwanted advances not actual harrassment\/abuse. That would be my guess too. Somebody &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/5717\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}