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This People Magazine article epitomizes the incredibly low threshold for #metoo outrage.
A 25-year-old professional journalist, yet she seems to believe she wasn't old enough to handle flirtation from a grown man. Are millennials really so infantilized that they see themselves as children at 25?
Freeman, after asking and receiving permission to make an off color comment, told her his magic trick would make her clothes disappear.
So it was fine at the time but now...
If this is #metoo, how can it have a shred of credibility?
There was a time when comments like that were viewed as very awkward flirting, nothing more than some old dude completely missing the mark. Women would even feel sorry for men who missed the mark so badly, embarrassed that the man didn't know better.
I think it's a mistake to twist a comment from a elderly man, one who was given the green light to say whatever he wanted, into sexual harassment. He probably walked away from the silly question about magic tricks and never thought about the question, or the 25 year old reporter, again. Yet today this woman wants this response to be viewed as sexual assault. She wants more attention from him than he ever meant to give her.
Has the pendulum shifted such that reporters who claim sexual harassment from big name movie stars are given more fame than they would otherwise have?
There was a time when comments like that were viewed as very awkward flirting, nothing more than some old dude completely missing the mark. Women would even feel sorry for men who missed the mark so badly, embarrassed that the man didn't know better.
And it wasn't even that awkward or off target. The reporter admits that she was flattered and thought it was "cool" that Freeman found her attractive.
And it wasn't even that awkward or off target. The reporter admits that she was flattered and thought it was "cool" that Freeman found her attractive.
Exactly! It is only years later that she seems to have found an opportunity for fame by twisting her perception of his comment as being a sexual assault. It's borderline baiting to tell a famous old man that he can say whatever he wants, and then turn around and say that he can't say whatever he wants without being targeted as a sex offender.
I read that he also asked a woman to twirl in a skirt, and that is also now interpreted as a sexual assault. If the woman was so offended, why did she twirl, or maybe she didn't twirl and no harm is done. It's very normal for men to ask beautiful women to twirl in a beautiful dress with a full skirt, and women like doing it. Audrey Hepburn, and other women of his time, would not have a problem with that request.
It's very old fashioned for men to say things like that, but is it sexual assault? Do 60 year old women view it as sexual assault, or is this something that very young women view as sexual assault. Why don't they view it as some crazy old dude with old fashioned ideas and set him straight? Women are outspoken enough today to set old men straight in the moment, aren't they?
Good for him. There's not a damn thing wrong with a 75-year-old being sexually interested in a 25-year-old. Kudos to Freeman if he still has the vim and vigor to pursue young women.
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