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The MeToo BACKFIRE Is Only Getting Worse For Women

Tim Pool Daily News

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Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The MeToo BACKFIRE Is Only Getting Worse For Women. Once again the narrative emerges that the feminist movement against awful men has resulted in fewer male leaders wanting to mentor women.This time in Davos at the world economic forum we see many men express concerns over working with women due to false accusations. While many women and feminists believe the criticism of the social justice movement is wrong they fail to realize that social norms between men and women are very very different. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For all the good that the Me Too movement has done, getting rid of some of these really

0:04.3

awful people who are abusing women, we do see some negative consequences. There have been

0:09.0

innocent people who have been smeared, and there have been opportunists who have jumped on the

0:12.8

Me Too bandwagon just to get attention to build their social following, and thus you hear stories

0:18.0

about people like Aziz Ansari that really do anything wrong but was accused of impropriety.

0:22.8

We're now seeing an escalation of one of the massive backfires of the Me Too movement,

0:27.7

men who don't want to mentor women. A story in the New York Times talks about how in Davos,

0:32.7

Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, there are men expressing fear over mentoring

0:37.2

women or being alone with them, and this is something we heard about quite a while ago. There

0:41.2

was a survey done by Lean In, which shows half of male managers are concerned about mentoring females.

0:47.9

Now many women are pushing back, saying any man who doesn't know how to not assault women

0:53.0

shouldn't be a manager in the first place, but they miss some key aspects of what is actually going

0:57.0

on today. Let's take a look at the story from New York Times and some of the rebuttals from

1:00.8

many people who have addressed the issue. But before we get started, make sure to follow me at

1:04.3

mines.com slash Timcast to follow my work. I'm going to be using this platform more than Twitter

1:09.1

because I'm just sick of Twitter's awful bias behavior, so you can follow me mines.com slash

1:14.5

Timcast, and if you want to support my work, you can simply share this video and help spread the

1:18.0

message. The narrative is re-emerging this time, the New York Times, on another side of Me Too,

1:23.5

male managers fearful of mentoring women. This isn't the first time we've heard this,

1:27.0

but this story is only from a few days ago. In Davos, Switzerland, men attending the annual

1:31.9

meeting of the World Economic Forum, this year were worried about a lot of things, a global

1:36.3

economic slowdown, threats to cybersecurity populism, war, and several acknowledged at the

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