This is what shit toweling day in and day out does — it makes women feel like men really believe that their job is to just take men’s shit. Men should never be held personally accountable for their sexism. All sexism is really just women’s misunderstanding.

It was a joke.

It’s just locker-room talk.

Shit toweling as a response to events like this is like saying while what this guy did is bad, he’s not the one on trial because what’s really on trial, say these men, is women’s right to protest. Like so many contrarian press outfits, they ask the contrarian question: but do women really have the right to complain?

In so doing, these men insinuate that their personal interpretation of reality is the only valid one and that women who disagree must to be corrected. This is ridiculous. This needs to stop.

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