Post by Eλευθερί on Jan 18, 2018 22:57:46 GMT
So Matt Damon...
Damon came under fire for suggesting that claims of sexual harassment should be viewed differently from allegations of sexual assault in an interview with ABC News’ “Popcorn with Peter Travers.
“There’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?” Damon said in the interview. “Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated, without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?”
The comments drew criticism from his former girlfriend and Good Will Hunting costar Minnie Driver, as well as Alyssa Milano, who popularized the #MeToo hashtag.
Thoughts?
This discussion was taking place within the context of a pro-feminist, liberal US Senator having just been forced to resign over allegations of having grabbed one-too-many women's butts, with (as far as I am aware) no allegations against him of sexual assault (as in rape) or of threatening a female employee's job in exchange for sex. That ex-senator had had 4 years remaining in his term in office. But now his seat will potentially be up for grabs by a conservative, anti-feminist candidate in an election being called early to replace him this November.
The take-no-prisoners attitude that fails to discriminate among different degrees of sexual misbehavior could have consequences that backfire.