Liberal Men and Blurred Lines – The Good Men Project (blog)

Meanwhile, this week, Casey Affleck received an Academy Award for Best Actor for Hacksaw, despite continued complaintsfrom several women that he sexually terrorized them on the set of Im Still Here. Where are the legions of liberal men expressing disgust that the MPAA would honor Affleck with one of their highest honors?

And while liberals joined conservatives in recoiling in disgust from Yiannopoulos speaking wistfully of being molested as a teen,liberal darling George Takeis similar reflectionsgot something of a shrug.

To be clear, there are important distinctions between Yiannopouloss comments and Takeis: Yiannopoulos offered them in a greater context of questioning the arbitrariness of age of consent laws and promoting man-boy sexual mentorship, while Takei was being asked to relate a story from the gossip mill to Howard Stern, and didnt suggest that everyone should experience what he did.

But even if Takei seemed uncomfortable relating the story (at least three separate times, all when prompted), he was laughing. The effect of the laughing, the optics, says that he was making light of an incident that was unarguably molestation. For that, people who would champion against molestation should at least question his presentation. We cannot look away from the reality that George Takei called being sexually assaulted delicious.

Forty years ago, Polish director Roman Polanski was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. He fled the country and has not returned since. The general feeling in Hollywood is frustration with the US and California authoritiesfor not just dropping the charges because, hey, its Roman!

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy for five years, dodging Swedish prosecutors over rape allegations. His supporters, many of whom are liberal and progressive men, insist the rape allegations are a conspiracy to shut him up.

When Conservative pick Clarence Thomas was accused of sexually harassing his then-subordinate Anita Hill, liberal males tried to use that to keep him from the Supreme Court. But when Bill Cosby was accused of drugging and raping multiple women, responses from men across the political spectrum were far more muted and ambivalent.

And the list goes on.

On the one hand, it is understandable that some of the incidents involving conservative men spark more condemnation than equivalent acts from liberal men. Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) was a crusader against gay rights prior to his arrest for soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. The liberal outrage, in this case is not over the solicitation (so what?) but over the blatant hypocrisy. You want to pick up guys in public bathrooms? Fine. But dont then act like gay sex is evilor other people are the predators.

Liberal males are quick to hide behind meta claims. When we mocked Melania Trumps nude pics, we claimed it was about the Rights hypocrisy of having criticized Michelle Obama for not being classy enough. When Obama bares her arms, its a conservative outrage; when 1984 Miss America Vanessa Williams bared everything, it was a conservative outrage.When nude pics of Melania Trump surface, though, thats a shrug.

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