Georgia Reporter Groped on Live TV

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, I don't think women should get handsy, either.

On one of the rare occasions where I actually commented on a celebrity social media post, it had to do with this sort of double standard. I use Instagram to follow funny accounts that post memes and some actors, like the MCU actors who also post funny shit. One of them posted some workout video and in the first comment, a woman said something absurdly perverted like wanting his baby juice. It turned out, there were dozens of comments you would find utterly disgusting if it were a girl's account with men commenting. I mean, feminists would have been losing their fucking shit, but no one batted an eye. I made some comment about how gross it was, but nobody gave a shit. Fucking nasty, bored, Harlequin-romance-reading hos.

You’d think so, wouldn’t you? The sad thing is I suspect that for a lot of people, even many self-identified feminists, morality is ultimately going to go down to self-serving standards, regardless of what they claim to believe. And odds are, at least a few are going to see a push for equality as an excuse to take the same horrible shit they’ve been subjected to and repeat it, this time with them on top. And then they’ll fuck it up for everybody.

To quote Orlando Figes in A People’s Tragedy:

The peasants and the workers were used to seeing power based on social domination and coercion rather than on the exercise of law. They saw the revolution mainly as a chance to gain autonomy and turn the tables on their former masters rather than as a chance to reconstruct the power system on universal legal principles. Retribution, not a constitution: that was the people's first priority.

And that’s why we can’t have nice things like equality or even a reasonable expectation for people with power to comport themselves with basic human decency.