Unfortunately I fee like there is a lot of apathy when it comes to sexual harassment. Many people have accepted that they will need to put up with it in their day-to-day life to a degree.
My anecdote for this is being in a major city a couple years back, standing on the sidewalk outside of a restaurant we had just finished eating at. Completely minding our own business and finishing up our goodbyes when some random person walked by, kissed the top of my partners head and then kept walking. I was seeing red, physically and emotionally spinning out. My partner was in shock and disgusted. The other couple with us was pretty much just like “meh, what are ya gonna do?”…
This wasn’t even just harassment, it was assault, and the response from our friends was so nonchalant as if this is something they see and experience all the time in the city. It was sad and disheartening to say the least and it really contextualized two things for me.
-what we hear about is only the tip of the iceberg, harassment and straight up assault is pretty much happening nonstop all the time.
-people are apathetic to it because of how prevalent it is.
Both of those seem so obvious, but gaining the perspective was eye opening.
People definitely accept common=okay because they’re reflexive p-zombies who function entirely on thr ‘first impression’ layer of the brain with little to no interiority.
Not a natural or inevitable state of affairs, but one both nonsense and authoritarian systems drive us towards.
There is no genuine morality, no genuine outrage, no genuine anything. Just pure instinct.
Unfortunately I fee like there is a lot of apathy when it comes to sexual harassment. Many people have accepted that they will need to put up with it in their day-to-day life to a degree.
My anecdote for this is being in a major city a couple years back, standing on the sidewalk outside of a restaurant we had just finished eating at. Completely minding our own business and finishing up our goodbyes when some random person walked by, kissed the top of my partners head and then kept walking. I was seeing red, physically and emotionally spinning out. My partner was in shock and disgusted. The other couple with us was pretty much just like “meh, what are ya gonna do?”…
This wasn’t even just harassment, it was assault, and the response from our friends was so nonchalant as if this is something they see and experience all the time in the city. It was sad and disheartening to say the least and it really contextualized two things for me.
-what we hear about is only the tip of the iceberg, harassment and straight up assault is pretty much happening nonstop all the time.
-people are apathetic to it because of how prevalent it is.
Both of those seem so obvious, but gaining the perspective was eye opening.
damn
People definitely accept common=okay because they’re reflexive p-zombies who function entirely on thr ‘first impression’ layer of the brain with little to no interiority.
Not a natural or inevitable state of affairs, but one both nonsense and authoritarian systems drive us towards.
There is no genuine morality, no genuine outrage, no genuine anything. Just pure instinct.