Oh, please. Africa is a violent, backward, and lawless place, to a great extent.

You are such a racist. /sarc

You spelled "realist" wrong.

Oh, and when I say "lawless," countries may have plenty of laws but that doesn't mean they are obeyed or that the systems support individual rights.

Somehow the sex hysteria thing came up when talking to my mom yesterday. I said rape is horrific but a grown woman who doesnt know what to do when a man drops his pants at work, should not be allowed to work. She agreed, telling me "when I was 18, i had just moved away from (tiny rural town in the 50s), I was living in Nashville, going to school, and I had a job I LOVED at a record company. One day, I was in the bosses office doing dictation when he said "dont you want to come sit on my lap?". Let me tell you, he never asked me that again, and he didnt fire me, either.". Women that weigh out their options, and submit/dont tell in order to not risk losing their job/movie role, have made a decision to sell themselves. They dont get to claim victimhood later when the decision they made no longer benefits them.

Im not judging the decision, Im sure I have a price, too. Im judging the retroactive victimhood.

Life is too easy nowadays. Thalt people have the time and bandwidth to obsess over an unwanted pass, would have been mindboggling through all previous recorded human history.

Why is she picking on Lesotho? Seriously there are much worse places in the world. I agree that Lesotho sucks but it is no where near "arguably the worst in the world".

Ben: Why is she picking on Lesotho? Seriously there are much worse places in the world. I agree that Lesotho sucks but it is no where near "arguably the worst in the world".

That might be debatable. When your nation is completely surrounded by another nation, and that other nation is South Africa, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with something worse than that.

But I'm sure the vocal contingent of Lesothoan-Americans will step up and set Ashley Harrell straight.

"This is the safest, most modern, most individual rights-driven country in the world."

Yep.

Now, tell me again about the single motherhood rate, and explain why there are dozens of American cities that you will not walk unmolested.

It's too PC to talk about, isn't it?

if you think women across the world don't need to fight for each other with everything we have,

Yet if I as a man say that it somehow mean I support rape.

Lets be brutally honest here, women like this ENJOY other women being raped because it gives them power, a platform boost for their bitching to be heard far and wide.

Its why feminists like Emma Watson spend their time talking about a wage gap that is generated by manipulating statistics, and not how the organization she works for does nothing as its own solderers rape thousands of women around the world

Its why that Eleveth(sp) whatever woman criticized a shirt (made by a woman FYI) the public face of a satellite landing on a comet wore and ignored all the contributions women made to that mind bogglingly precise scientific endeavor

Its why feminists claim kissing under the mistletoe is rape, and in the very next breath claim men refusing to have sex with women at all is ALSO rape

On top of this when false accusations collapse in public fashion they double down. The faculty at Duke never apologized to the men they accused of being rapists, not when the case fell apart, not when the media finally dug into her past and found other instances of her lying about rape, not even to the guy who literally had security footage of him being nearly a hundred miles away at the time.

These people dont give a shit about anyone other than themselves and their small power base. The only reaction they have via a vie rape is the hope that it continues so they can continue to cling to power.

Jackals like this are why I hope I am wrong about the existence of a god because people like that truly deserve to be tormented for a few thousand millennia

In college, an older beatnik offered a backrub (I was renting a room in this big flop-house). This let me know he was a gay beatnik. I said no, end of story. No trauma. The idea that a guy asking you out several times is harassment is crazy--so many women play hard to get or aren't interested at first--as long as it isn't your boss, just roll with it. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of couples had the girl say no at first. That is how dating works.

In the end, moral panics underrmine the very cause they purport to serve.

The Kern County sex abuse cases harmed our ability to prosecute child sex abuse. So much so, that it likely enabled the Catholic Church to cover for pedophile priests.

[UN] she works for does nothing as its own solderers rape thousands

Yes, the UN peacekeeping forces seem to have a taste for mother raping, child raping, and probably even father raping. Not sure how they manage to do that, but they are fairly consistent.

This is a tough topic to comment on because I do want to show the appropriate care and concern for the victims. However, over the past few weeks, it's been on my mind that sexual harassment is "unwanted" sexual advances, and the "unwanted" part needs to be communicated in some way, shape of form.

Unless it's one of the situations like Terry Crews' where someone grabbed his privates, or one of the situations where the guy begins touching himself in front of someone who isn't interested, I think women (and men) need to prepare now for how to say "no" to general advances. That's the first line of defense for general come-ons. If the person doesn't address that the attention is not wanted, and they just go along with it because they are too uncomfortable to say something about it, unless your job is on the line, being silent or coy could be exacerbating the problem. You walk away feeling harassed and the other person walks away thinking you may be interested.

I heard a podcast recently where the guest was talking about the women he saw throwing themselves at Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, etc. Let's not forget that the accused are often married--sometimes multiple times, so their come-on tactics and personalities are clearly working for some people. How do we make our stances clear? By using our words and actions. Maybe people will say this shouldn't happen in the workplace, but that ignores all the relationships that have been sparked from spending hours together each day. We need to be vocal and be prepared.

-Be Confident
-Be Attractive
-Don’t Be Unattractive

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/sexual-harassment/2751966?snl=1

Patrick, I would say nations with open sex slavery and open sale of women as worse. Lesotho to the best of my knowledge is like much of south africa where people don't want to bring rape charges because it would tragically traumatize the rapists. I agree it is a hell hole. But this read more of a brag about how Harrell has been to some random hell hole almost no one has heard of.

There is a huge power disparity between men and women. Men obviously have much more drive for intercourse. If things were equal between the sexes as far as strength of urgency in the drive for sex, there would be no problem and everyone would be happy and satisfied. The reality is that most men live in a state of sexual famine. Some food starved people will break laws to get the food they are starved for. Some sex starved men will break rules to get what they are starved for. If one views men as something other than a dehumanized enemy not deserving of anything other than sexual starvation, there are ways of dealing with this situation that may be mutually beneficial. I think legal prostitution would be a big help. I've known several women with the sex drive of a teenage boy. If they're awake, they'd like to have a penis inside them. One woman like that could take care of many men. The woman and the man involved would be delighted and relieved. Prostitution does not necessarily harm a woman. The U.S. is quite puritanical. There have been past cultures in which prostitution was accepted and women weren't made to feel bad about what they do. There are countries today that don't have the damaging shaming attitude found in the U.S.. Legalized prostitution would result in less pressure from men for sex. If you look at the whole situation from afar it seems ludicrous to have sex starved men being restricted from having sex with the women who want to have sex all the time. I do R and D work in a technical field and tend to look at things rationally. Unfortunately rationality oftentimes is at odds with present social convention.

"If they're awake, they'd like to have a penis inside them."

Somebody should have explained that to Dr. Cosby in a timely fashion.

I knew a girl in college who had five boyfriends Gog. It was kinda creepy. They all knew each other. They were all in the relationship together. Kinda like that Futurama episode. Not my cup of tea. But whatever.