The Heroic Gent

Blaming men for being men gives a big pass to the legal system, as right now the prevalence of forced-arbitration agreements is smothering this #MeToo movement. Forced-arbitration agreements have been deemed legal under contract law by many courts, as they are seen as employment contracts. To invalidate a forced-arbitration agreement someone must prove in court that one such agreement fails an arbitrary “unconscionable conduct” test—no easy thing to do. Still, forced arbitrat

“[W]hen a woman makes an accusation, the man instantly gets the death penalty. There has to be some sort of due process here. All of these inappropriate behaviors are not all the same.” –Gayle King   Your father, or certainly your grandfather, never heard of “toxic masculinity.” They didn’t have to worry about “microaggressions” (or are they “macroaggressions”?), such as “man-splaining” (talking down to a woman) or “man-spreading” (taking up too much space on public transpo

“I am devastated that 80 years of my life is at risk of being undermined in the blink of an eye.” –Morgan Freeman   Don’t blame former PBS’ talk show host Charlie Rose, former Fox News’ host Bill O’Reilly, or former senator and Saturday Night Live comedian, aka   self-help  guru “ Stuart Smalley,” Al Franken. They aren’t responsible for the #MeToo tsunami. Matt Lauer, the former NBC Today show host, didn’t give us the sexual-harassment tidal wave either. It wasn’t actors K