Henry Cavill criticised for #MeToo comments

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So the last few days have been quite rough for Henry it appears and people have been quick to condemn him and just jumped on the rape word without taking the time to digest what he is actually saying.

“Stuff has to change, absolutely,” Cavill said, before adding: “There’s something wonderful about a man chasing a woman … I think a woman should be wooed and chased, but maybe I’m old-fashioned for thinking that.”

“It’s very difficult to do that if there are certain rules in place. Because then it’s like: ‘Well, I don’t want to go up and talk to her, because I’m going to be called a rapist or something.’”

“Now? Now you really can’t pursue someone further than, ‘No’. It’s like, ‘OK, cool’. But then there’s the, ‘Oh why’d you give up?’ And it’s like, ‘Well, because I didn’t want to go to jail?’”
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I have to say that I can see what he means, I am so glad that I am not in the dating scene today, it's like a totally different world than it was back in the late 2000's. Obviously I am not a famous person either so I don't know how it is for them, but I can imagine everyone is so sensitive of not coming across as a creepy person.

I mean can you imagine being in his position and thinking someone on set is attractive and you want to chat with them, but having to think if you should because they may be offended by your advances and claim all sorts of things and you are done.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/13/henry-cavill-criticised-metoo-comments
 
The whole area is best avoided for comment, look at the slaughtering they gave Matt Damon for suggesting there is a difference in rape and staring at someone.
Cavil will be slaughtered by people who know little and are very loud with their empty vessel.
He isn’t wrong, but the whole area is best avoided.

A few weeks in Saudi and the #metoo would prioritise actual issues, many of which started the campaign and ignore the frivilous ****. I think Germaine Greer said something to that effect at one stage.
 
As long as you don't honk on the ******* or grab the ***** you will be fine my brothers.

Have people just forgot how to talk to women?
 
If I was a celebrity, I would try and keep my mouth shut on topics like #metoo, anything to do with politics, or just general opinion pieces :p

It's so easy with Social Media for someone to get offended and have a soapbox to stand on and shout about it.
 
You know there's a problem when even Superman is saying it

I have no interest in having children due to the direction humans seem to be going, I'm also pretty selfish with my time so have no interest in dating so I'm glad I get to avoid all this BS

Hopefully the SJW's will stop breeding and in a couple of generations all this stupidity will have gone the way of the dodo and we can actually focus on important issues like not destroying the planets eco systems
 
I remember at my cousin's wedding a few years ago one of the speeches was about how they'd worked together and he fancied her and essentially how it took him a lot of effort to get her to start dating him and how his persistence paid off etc...

I guess that sort of thing, trying to ask someone out again after first being rejected, is something that requires you to very carefully read the situation as if you get it wrong then what was supposed to be the romantic pursuit of a woman can easily become sexual harassment.
 
Thekwango said:
is that really what happens now are you as guilty as the #metoo crowd for over exaggerating? ;)
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Sexual harassment can include:

  • someone making sexually degrading comments or gestures
  • your body being stared or leered at
  • being subjected to sexual jokes or propositions
  • e-mails or text messages with sexual content
  • physical behaviour, including unwelcome sexual advances and touching
  • someone displaying sexually explicit pictures in your space or a shared space, such as at work
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Maybe not quite as littleas saying hi but lookimg at women or proposition them seems to certainly qualify for many.

Theres certainly the usual types on platforms like twitter that would have even more extreme views.
 
Caracus2k said:
Maybe not quite as littleas saying hi but lookimg at women or proposition them seems to certainly qualify for many.
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Don't be disingenuous

'your body being stared or leered at' is far more than just 'looking at a woman'

and it's 'sexual propositions' not just 'a proposition' - like asking out for dinner or drink.

Thankfully most men can understand the difference between chatting up a woman and sexually harassing her, it's just the internet denizens who like to argue out of context definitions that seem to struggle.
 
Glad i'm out the of this issue too, accourding to the wife i dont sexually harrase her enough these days. All jokes aside though I was never really one for going up to women in pubs and stuff anyway so never really had this issue but I can see how guys can be seriously put off, even if you do somehow find a chick who doesnt look down their nose at you, and you manage to take her home theres always a chance a week later your being cuffed and dragged off because youve upset her or shes spoken to her mates and is now playing the rape card.

Im sure there are some genuine women out there but a few bad eggs are the ones that get reported on and spoil it for everyone else in the same way that a few bad men have started it all off in the first place

Well glad to be out of it tbh
 
problem is its not easy though, how many threads have there been in GD about a lad getting hauled up to a judge cause he banged a nutter on a night out?
 
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