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I don't think there's anything wrong with "the men" these days that wasn't wrong with them 50, 100, 200 or 500 years ago. Men have always done things analogous to this prior to the existence of dating apps or smartphones or even telephones. I think we have plenty of reason to believe that men are behaving much better today than they did in the past - I'm sure the Australian statistics for sexual assault over the last hundred years would bear that out. [EDIT: not over the last thirty years, per /u/AshLael. Would still like to see a chart of the last hundred years.]
I don't think the people behind this bill have exhausted every possible course of action to attempt to remedy this problem and are now throwing up their hands in defeat and trying to legislate the problem out of existence. I think these people are petty authoritarians who want the state to intervene and control every facet of human behaviour. I think trying to legislate the problem out of existence was a first resort for them, not a last resort.
Twenty years ago we would have said that a man who's overly pushy and bad at reading signals needs to learn a bit of empathy and improve his social skills - not locked up. From a rehabilitative perspective, I have a hard time believing that spending a few months in jail for the crime of sending a few rude texts would make a man more respectful towards women.
Also, this is wrong. Data only goes back to 1993, but it's shown a clear upward trend in the 30 years since then.
Thanks for the source. Apparently Australia only outlawed marital rape in 1990. I wonder how much this contributed to the increase.
I'd have actually put "immigration from extremely misogynistic cultures" up on the list as as a much bigger contributor. There've been a lot of scandals with regards to explicitly ethnically motivated sexual abuse and I've even posted about some of them here on the Motte before as well. It got to the point that in the 2000s we actually had race riots over islamic sexual harassment in public places. To be honest I'd be rather surprised if we didn't have a proto-Rotherham waiting to be discovered too.
I hadn't thought of that. When I think about immigrants coming to Australia I immediately think of Chinese and Vietnamese, but I suppose there are a lot of Lebanese as well, aren't there? Would you happen to have stats on the most biggest immigrant groups by source nation over the last few decades?
The Lebanese were who I was thinking of with regards to the ethnically motivated assaults, but I don't have the stats on this front unfortunately.
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Can we PLEASE try to stay SLIGHTLY connected to reality here?
No one is trying to
No legislation has been proposed, no legislation is being drafted.
Likewise, there is absolutely no prospect of any man
What has happened is dating apps have been asked to write a code of conduct for themselves. This does not involve any legislation, it does not involve any penalties, and it CERTAINLY does not involve any new criminal offences applied to users.
This is an example of the government laundering legislation through private entities by pressuring the private entities that if they don't obey, they will be faced with legislation. If they do obey, then the government can claim to have nothing to do with it because it's "just private entities, surely they can do whatever they want".
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Okay, fair enough, I was being hyperbolic.
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