Now, as a good mamas boy, who have always treated women with respect and has never exhibited any sort of sexually aggressive behaviour (and hence has been much less sexually succesful than my less polite brethren), I would very much welcome a change in culture.
Have you ever considered the idea that your sexual frustration may lie in your complete misunderstanding of women? Harassing a woman into sex or preying on their insecurities is no more "sexual success" (a rather disgusting term, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt) than committing fraud or theft is "financial success".
1) I am not a misogynist. I am a lifelong feminist and proponent of womens rights. I have voted for women in the vast majority of elections I have participated in. I have two daughters who I wish will grow up in a world that actually treats women and men as equals.
2) I do not condone sexually aggressive behaviour and infact in that post wrote that I wish the culture would change. Explaining something is not the same as condoning something. Likewise, the fact that you don't think a criminal should be disqualified for life does not contitute an apology for said criminal action.
3) I am married with three kids and I am not "sexually frustrated". I used to be as a young man, sure. But I am probably amongst a minority of men who can 100% say that they never engaged in any sort of sexually aggressive behaviour or sexually inappropriate action.
4) I am a psychologist (high school teacher by current profession) and as such trained to understand human behaviour. This is basically what I am doing here. Patterns of human behaviour exist for a reason and that reason is generally that this pattern has resulted in succes of some sort for those who exhibit it. The PUA's mentioned in this thread do what they do because it works for them.
5) A LOT of this type of sexually aggressive behaviour pre-MeToo, stems from either a misguided idea of what women want or simply from miscommunication. Men are pretty bad at reading women's signals in general and given that the cultural norm is that the man should be the initiator of sexual contact, that will lead to things that shouldn't have taken place. Some men will be succesful being highly sexually aggressive while others will be regarded as dangerous creeps for the very same behaviours. This is confusing to young men in particular.
6) Largely because of point 5, I generally do not see sexually aggressive behaviour as disqualifying and especially not if said behaviour was undertaken whilst young and stupid (and often intoxicated). I STRONGLY dislike Brett Kavanaugh and see a multitude of reasons why he should never have been allowed to serve in the highest court of the land, but that reason is not something he did as a college kid.
7) And just to clear it up, I am obviously NOT talking about actual rape here. Neither am I talking about clearly malicious sexual actions of any sort. I am talking about inappropriate touching. I am talking about lewd comments. That kind of stuff.
Even if you are correct that our culture does ask men to take initiative with regards to sexual activity, that simply doesn’t excuse literal sexual assault. Lewd comments are one thing, and are highly inappropriate but shouldn’t necessary be disqualifying, but inappropriate touching is both vile and should be completely disqualifying. I am a young male and arguably very stupid, but I do not have a single reason nor a right to sexually touch a women without her consent. And that is how it should be. Age isn’t an excuse and you can make a move without sexually assaulting someone.
Consent is a thing, and every single teenager knows what it is (except for some sheltered freaks)
I don’t believe the Reade accusations for a variety of reasons, and honestly don’t prioritize the issue right now because Trump is committing a genocide, but that doesn’t mean sexual assault is okay. Under normal circumstances, sexual assault would be a disqualifyer for me, especially if the incident was denied at first (and actually did happen)
