Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@evacide" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>evacide</span></a></span> : we've seen that in NL happen too, a manager of a well known TV program publicly asking why women did/do not speak up (or report it) when men (in his TV show) tried to, or actually did, abuse them (<a href="https://nltimes.nl/2024/06/12/rapper-ali-b-denies-sexually-assaulting-raping-three-women-man-arrested-court" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nltimes.nl/2024/06/12/rapper-a</span><span class="invisible">li-b-denies-sexually-assaulting-raping-three-women-man-arrested-court</span></a>).</p><p>It's not women who are the problem, men are.</p><p>We (people) have brains that we can and must use to control any instinctive impulses.</p><p>After all, we ("straight" men) also use our brains to determine whether *we* find it acceptable if someone else "comes to close" - in particular if it is another male.</p><p>We ("straight" men) should ask ourselves how we'd react if another man treated us the way we plan to treat a woman.</p><p>It's not hard, just do it.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TalkAndLISTEN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TalkAndLISTEN</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equality</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MutualRespect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualRespect</span></a></p>