The Rage of the New Puritans Is Sweeping America

Dec 12, 2017 by

by John Horvat II, Crisis Magazine:

The announcement that the “Silence Breakers” have been named “Person of the Year” by TIME magazine has catapulted the sexual harassment scandals into the national spotlight. Sexual assault in the workplace has taken on crisis proportions.

Many are saying that men and women will soon revert to minimizing contact among themselves. They fear a new “Puritanism” will sweep over corporate America increasing anxiety in the workplace and hindering communication.

No Puritanism from the Distant Past
Such fears are exaggerated. There is no danger of a wave of old-style Puritanism because the target of the anti-harassment offensive is not the hypersexual culture that permeates everything. There is no going back to old Puritan times.

Rest assured that the hook-up culture with its vulgar talk, drug use and immodest fashions will continue to degrade society and office. The media will also keep promoting the greatest possible sexual freedom wherever it might be found.

All this will happen despite the fact that these promiscuous habits are the incubators that prepare the way for sexual harassment. They are the gateway drugs that lead to the hard stuff. However, they are curiously not the target of the anti-harassment blitz.

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