As you know "projection" has many meanings. We will explore only one of them for the purpose of this post.
Projection includes,
"...a psychological defense mechanism
whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations,
desires, feelings—basically parts of oneself—onto someone else..."
I have written recently about the sexual harassment epidemic consuming left wing institutions. See "Good News" and "This and That #7."
As I mentioned we on the right have been accused, as a group, of misogyny and hypocrisy for a very long time. Right wing men in particular.
I have always assumed that the accusations were a manifestation of projection.
Since no one I know engaged in the often complained of behavior and most of those with much higher profiles than mine also had only very rarely been demonstrated to have manifested those behaviors (Newt Gingrich comes immediately to mind) I often thought projection might be at work. But, like our accusers, I had precious little evidence to support my theory.
Not anymore.
We now know that Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein were not outliers, they were main stream for lefty institutions.
CBS, NBC, NPR, Broadway, and a thoroughly astonishing list of other cesspools are now being exposed as hotbeds (forgive me) of sexual predation.
And apparently everybody involved in those institutions knew. The most egregious example of the extent of that knowledge is the 2008 "secret" roast of Matt Lauer . Do not follow the link unless you are prepared to be offended.
The audience was filled with all the people who claimed ignorance once he was exposed.
So where did the Republican War on Women and Republican Misogyny come from?
Unfortunately it was projection. More unfortunately the women complaining loudly appear to have been cowards (a very common human condition) at best, and enablers at worst. These unfortunate people were living and working with misogynists and predators so they naturally assumed that all men behave this way. Surely these ugly impulses could not be confined to just their men.
Well ladies and all you feminist gentlemen of the left, it seems, for the most part, that they are. Enjoy what your constant efforts to be "progressive" have earned you. Destroy all the rules of civility as you have been doing for 40 years and people will behave badly.
Those of us who have been watching in horror as women turned themselves into Victoria Secret wannabes are not surprised at the world you have created.
