I have watched, from afar, the outrage over sexual harassment in America.
And, par for the course, the real message got lost in the silliness.
I have a few things to say and I’ll go back to reading a book about baseball.
First of all, the people who are celebrating Roy Moore’s defeat in Alabama need to remember something….nobody won. Doug Jones may have been elected senator, but there were no winners.
Why?
Because Americans have refused to seriously have a conversation about how we view sexual harassment. Trying to politicize and rationalize sexual harassment is the biggest bunch of bullshit going right now…along with race and gender. No one wants to talk about it….only to use shame and outrage as an easy way to make a statement.
And no, Americans did not do the right thing. Americans did not vote in the Alabama senate race. The people of Alabama did. Take your pontificating heads out of your asses, America.
Sanity did not win, as many on my Facebook were posting.
We still lost.
Republicans and Democrats, and the people who fall on either side have chosen to ignore what is the real issue: how do we address sexual harassment and improper behavior.
We didn’t win shit, folks.
We still lost.
Much ado about a pithy ass election to point fingers. Start pointing the fingers at yourselves, along with me.
