Well, the sexual-harassment scalps keep piling up. Today it’s Matt Lauer (fine with me; I never could stand the guy), Garrison Keillor, and, if I recall correctly, some executive at NPR (who can keep track anymore?).
The wholesale termination of all these male media bigwigs will likely have a consequence that, so far, I haven’t seen anyone talking about (though I might have missed it): that the mainstream media will be, more and more, controlled by aspiring, overwhelmingly liberal, women. This will be something of an accelerant of existing cultural trends.
I can hardly wait.
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Those old enough and aware back in the 1960s and into the 1970s will remember the beginning of the “sexual revolution” and everything that came with it. The old standards of behavior had to end to make way for the new. Older people looked on in disgust and talked about consequences. The “new” behaviors took root in the upper levels of major institutions and over the years began to filter out to the middle class and then down scale to more vulnerable populations.
It looks like the “consequences” will start in the elite institutions before filtering through to the rest of our culture. There are those who will fight to their last breath to preserve the ’60s culture and all that came with it. Older more traditional ways might make a comeback among the young. That will upend much of our entertainment culture.