Every man on the planet who has reached puberty understands the evolutionary urge and its powerful chemistry. Maybe not in those terms, but at least in their pants. Some men--by discipline, personal commitment, religious belief, fear or other means--can keep it in their pants. Other men--by power, privilege, wealth, brutishness, weak character, coercion or other means--can’t.
Men can understand the actions of sexual predators and may sometimes have sexual fantasies of that kind. Keeping them as fantasies separates the man from the predator.
Hitting on women at the office, trying seduction, using power to coerce sex and rape are all levels of moral weakness, sexual immaturity and cowardice. To say such men are dickheads let’s them off too easy.
What they think is their love wand is really just a personal pleasure stick. Maybe every office building needs to have a set of masturbation pods where men can jerk off and get it out of their systems and leave women alone.
Still, make an assessment for yourself of the content of the media produced by the Hollywood moguls and actors. How much lives out their own fantasies? How much meets the desires of our own fantasies? How much of it affirms the very behavior of their own sexual lives.
Many women and a few men are courageously are bringing this systemic behavior out into the daylight. It remains to be seen as to whether the structure will crumble or in the end just shake a little.
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