When it is this large of a collection, on both sides of the aisle, it is clear that they need to be taken seriously and definitely have substantial merit. The only point I have ever argued is that Donald Trump's hot mic wasn't him admitting to sexual assault. I'm not going to deny that his accusers have a valid claim. I believe they do.
The real question is though, when are we going to start hearing about the women doing this? And if they don't? Does that mean men really have no place in positions of power anymore? When do we as a collective gender decide to step down?
WTF? Don't pull another shorty "well, since there's soooo many, I guess we have to consider it has merit" type of nonsense.
The only point you have ever argued? Weird phrasing.
I don't get how you can even argue that point, considering he literally said exactly what he's been accused of doing. I don't know if you're trying to make it as a legal argument ("it won't hold up as an admission in court!") or something, but I don't even know why you're bringing that up as though you were being accused of something, or...I really don't know, as its just plain weird to be staking your position based on that, or why you're trying to argue that point in the first place. But whatever, we're in bizarro world where unless there's an extensive amount of claims, and they can't be hand waived away easily (guys, guys, its on both sides of the aisle now, so obviously it isn't just a political witch hunt), then we apparently shouldn't take it too seriously.
Hell, you're making the case for us not taking it too seriously because not enough powerful women have been accused of the same thing. You seemingly are ignoring the deluge of female teachers facing charges over having sex with their students. Oh, wait, that's right, guys response to that is "that's hot! where were these teachers when I was in school?"
Do you listen to yourself? Oh no, if women don't start rampantly sexually harassing and assaulting people, does that mean men have to give up
everything? What the fuck? JHumeC is your moral fortitude so shaken that you think men are wholly incapable of not sexually harassing/assaulting people?
Now, here's something, that, I don't know, maybe we're not hearing about women doing this, because, they're largely
not doing it? I mean, its not like they've been explicitly pointing out how they're overwhelmingly the victims when it comes to this, and that society has been leveraged against them on this topic (its not like we're saying that unless there's a bunch of women making the accusations that we have to start out believing they're not that credible or anything...oh wait, you're doing exactly that). That even when they're the victims and accusers, they're often attacked worse. That they rarely ever get charges to go forward, and even more rarely get convictions. That they have to hope there were others, and that they can go to the media who can then get public will against the perpetrators for them to face any consequences of their actions.
For the record, we should take these claims/allegations seriously regardless of the gender of the accusers/accused. It just happens that, like women have been saying for a very long time, that society is tilted towards enabling men to act this way. And that needs to change. And men need to start owning up to the behavior that enables worse aspects of it to flourish.