Writing Resources
Is 2018 the year we put the man into FeMANism The ramifications of the Harvey Weinstein disclosures have rippled through society at every level leaving everyone from the office sleaze to the winking milkman quaking in their boots The burning question is where to draw the line When does flirting become intimidating and should all banter be banned Can you tell a colleague she looks nice or are compliments now too complicated to navigate The answer we think is pretty straight forward For those of us who are neither narcistic sociopath Asperger s nor sex pest it s plain to read We are after all hard wired to read each other and communication is widely believed to be 93 per cent non verbal which means that our signals shout louder than our words And most of the time it works just fine Sexual submission in return for a star role is so common that the phrase casting couch is ubiquitous in its understanding That s sad What s sadder is that Hollywood doesn t hold the monopoly on either carnal or mental bullying The culture of blokey nudge nudge wink wink goes way beyond the locker room with such rampant online presence in 2018 that most children under ten have viewed porn It s rife And damaging Parents complain of concerns that their sons are pressured into thinking they have to perform like some kind of Duracell charged alpha male action man machine and that girls are stereotyped into either submissive providers of pleasure or dominatrix divas This is not real It s not true and it s not fair
