Saturday, December 9, 2017

Andrew Sullivan on the double standard in sexual misconduct

Sullivan is a conservative pundit that still has morals and principles. This article elucidates how the Dims accept responsibility and punish themselves for such accusations while the Repugs deny them and attack the victims. This sets up a never-ending cycle where victims feel empowered to accuse Dims while being afraid of doing so against the Repugs, with the ultimate result of decimating the very Party that stands up for women's rights and increasing the Party that destroys those rights.

Sullivan's article starts out discussing the baker vs. homosexual story, but near the end he addresses the sexual double standard. An excerpt:

"In 2016, tribal loyalty overwhelmed any concerns about demonstrable sexual assault in the presidential election and led to a majority of white women voting for a pig. A year later, it appears to be having the same effect in Alabama. Roy Moore, in the last couple of weeks, has even seemed somewhat empowered by the backlash to the accusations. (The polls, however, still show a close race.).
"And all of this will surely affect who comes forward in the future. A woman violated by a Democrat will be likelier to go public — because it gets results. A woman violated by a Republican will fear she could be easily demonized as a liar, a conspirator, or a fraud, and understandably be reluctant to put herself through that. And so the accusations may well mount against Democrats and liberals and diminish somewhat among Republicans and conservatives. Democratic standards for sexual conduct may well keep rising (any proof, for example, that Garrison Keillor ever recorded a single broadcast has now been erased from Minnesota Public Radio’s archives), while Republican standards (that signature on the yearbook photo is obviously forged) may keep falling. I see no reason why this ratchet shouldn’t continue, and why Democrats aren’t, in fact, unilaterally disarming themselves in what is a purely tribal war, where all objective moral or even epistemological standards become relative."

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