Even some on the left think the #MeToo movement has gone too far

Rick Moran  "How far is too far for the #MeToo movement? That we are finally getting around to asking that question - even those on the left - says just how far off the rails the movement has gotten.

"Case in point: Francisco J. Ayala. He's a world renowned geneticist at UC Irvine, born in Spain, whose friendly greetings for Benedicte Shipley were perceived by both in radically different ways. Ayala would greet Shipley for years with a hug and kisses on both cheeks, telling her how attractive she is. He thought he was showing her good manners. She believed he was harassing her. 

"Ayala is 84 years old. Shipley is 50. Other women came forward to tell of Ayala's unwanted friendliness. He swore he meant no disrespect by his actions. Indeed, some women enjoyed their encounters with Ayala.

"But the university threw the book at him." . . .

Who to believe? An adult white woman or a 9 year old black boy?  "The "believe woman" claims of rape no-matter-what meme continues to trivialize real rape and other forms of assault, while turning women into permanently helpless victims unable to function in simple every day activities because #MeToo!  

"In the heart of multi-cultural, pluralistic and oh-so-liberal Brooklyn, New York, a white woman is paying for cat litter in a Mid-Eastern deli as a black mother exits the store with her two young children.  Ah, sophisticated big city co-existence in all its smug glory!  

"But wait! Danger for women is everywhere!  Everywhere! And it happens! Something touches the white woman's delicate butt!  Oh no!  Galvanized by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's vivid recollections of a highly questionable drunken adolescent  hazy encounter 36 years earlier embedded in her hypothalamus, the alert white female professional victim follows the black family outside, accusing the 9 year old boy of touching her clothed and sacred body part and then calls the police." . . .

"The 9 year old cries.  The mother defends her son." . . .
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" 'But...but," women defenders will defend, "women have been victimized for so long you can't blame them for a little mistake."  Oh no!  Of course not!  

"So what if innocent men are vilified, smeared, even incarcerated?  They deserve it because they're well...men.  

"So what if the cops had been more involved, showing the woman the child was innocent?  They're cops; by definition, bad.  

"So what if the cops and the judge are slow to react when a real case of sexual assault occurs because wolf has been called too many times?  They're men.  Or evil conservative, elitist women. "

Mazie Hirono telling men to "just shut up" didn't win much sympathy for her apparently spasmodic causes.

. TD