GOP Mississippi gubernatorial candidate refuses to be alone with female reporter

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People making "he can't control himself" comments are being deliberately dense. The issue isn't that he's worried he's going to get uncontrollably horny, it's that someone's going to make sh**t up about him. If you're a controversial public figure where there's a motive for someone to want to smear you it makes sense to be cautious about meeting alone with women you don't know. Especially since the mainstream norm these days is to automatically treat every allegation by a woman against a man as 100% true before any evidence is available. Even in cases where the allegations are outright proven false (Duke Lacrosse) or dubious (Woody Allen) certain people are going to mindlessly say you just love rape if you don't treat them as 100% true. If the left/feminists don't like this state of affairs then they should approach allegations fairly and not form strong opinions unless there is strong evidence.

This isn't a political thing, I think the allegations against Trump/Kanaugh/Roy Moore are probably true based on the weight of evidence. I wouldn't really blame it on metoo either since it's been going on before then. In fact a lot of metoo seems to be about strength in numbers, i.e dozens of people accused Weinstein so we know it's highly unlikely they are all lying, so I don't think it's made things any worse in this regard. This attitude has been prevalent since the 90's or so.

[HisGrace]

The issue here is not that false accusations exist. I am not particularly worried about being falsely accused of being a murderer or drug trafficker because people generally don't believe accusations like that without evidence. I am not those things, so evidence against me does not exist. In sexual misconduct allegations people get emotionally involved and immediately demand that anyone accused lose their job and leak their address online so an angry mob can show up where they live and so on. Then even if the allegation is disproven it won't matter and you'll still have people denouncing you as a rapist until you die. There wouldn't be so much paranoia about this stuff if the left and feminists would drop the lynch mob mentality. Which doesn't mean you assume accusers are liars either.