I know the right-wing likes to pretend that any and all claims of misogyny are just made up and fake
Generalising is always a good way to have a dialogue I hear.
It’s more the issue of it being turned into a loaded buzzword on the internet.
The idea that women who wear makeup are hypocrites for not wanting to be sexually harassed is misogynist, and it’s pathetic, and it’s disgusting.
Yeah, it is. Nobody should be harassed, sexually or otherwise.
But we don’t live on fantasy island.
Should you walk around Detroit in the middle of the night in a fancy suit carrying a briefcase full of cash? No. Why? You’ll get mugged. Should you get mugged? No. Do you deserve it? No. But you will, and you know why? There are terrible people in the world and no amount of bitching about it and activist movements will stop people from being terrible. Anyone with half a lick of sense knows that doing certain things are going to set off shitty people who want to do shitty things to you.
It isn’t activism, it’s having effective HR departments at work. Men get sexually harassed too, so even if we were all being totally selfish here, this would benefit us too. Having zero-tolerance for sexual harassment won’t effect you if you don’t repeatedly make horribly unwarranted advances toward people.
So yeah, if a woman spends three hours on makeup before work dolling herself up, wears a sexy dress and god knows what, she’s going to get attention. And she knows it.
Does she deserve negative attention? No, nobody does, but she’ll get it, and hopefully the assholes perpetrating it get reprimanded. But it won’t stop her getting it again in the future.
The three hours, getting dolled up, wearing sexy dresses, and god knows what else are all your additions to this. Peterson was talking about makeup in general. Even if I conceded that such behavior makes you a hypocrite, which I don’t, it’s still not representative of all working women that wear makeup.
Being an asshole is gender-less but you can typically avoid attracting assholes by not walking around Detroit with a briefcase of cash.
Detroit is a shithole that’s totally unsafe. We’re talking about professional work environments. That’s a false equivalence and you know it.
Calling people who wear makeup “hypocrites” is a stretch and I don’t think that’s the right word to use, but I get what he’s at least trying to say.
I get what he’s trying to say too and it’s incredibly unintelligent and backwards.