Well said.
If parents -- especially dads -- start teaching their sons to respect women, #MeToo wouldn't be necessary. Parents also need to teach their daughters to respect themselves and demand the same from others.
Exactly. This ties back to a post to someone else I left earlier about American puritanism. It was a cancer and unfortunately formed a good part of the society's foundation. To shift from the "wife as subservient servant/women as mothers and opportunities for breeding" to "partners as equal/women as powerful individuals who can pursue or reject sex whenever and as forcefully as they want" mindset is nothing short of an intellectual and cultural revolution.
I realize that plenty of men and women prefer "conservative" or "traditional" roles in courtship and mating and partnering, but a woman whose natural tendency is to be docile or demure does not reactionarily create a man who advances on other women without their consent.
I go to Burning Man every year (well, at least before COVID brought Armageddon to the planet). The experience is life changing and difficult and beautiful. It encompasses so many things, but the core principle for every burner, without exception, is consent. You don't hug someone unless they agree to accept your hug. You don't drink from someone's Camelbak unless they give you permission. You certainly don't put hands on or have sexual contact with a person who doesn't provide consent in a physical condition required to provide actual consent.
I would invite all of the men who have trouble respecting boundaries to Burning Man so they can get a weeklong, survival lesson in consent, but most men are not the type of people we want there.

