![]() Penny, in a statement released through his lawyers, said he did not intend to kill Neely. Neely, who was homeless and mentally ill, was reportedly screaming and confronting passengers he was killed after Penny put him in a chokehold, while two other passengers held him down. On May 1, a 30-year-old man named Jordan Neely was choked to death on a crowded New York City subway train by a 24-year-old Marine named Daniel Penny. This question has been on my mind this week, for the most tragic of reasons. The narrow question is, when does an annoying man become an evil harasser? The broader one is, when does a tolerable nuisance cross the line to become an intolerable transgression? This early rift in the movement represented a deeper philosophical disagreement, about the nature and importance of resilience. “It’s sad you think you have to,” said the Youths. “We’re tough enough to take it,” said the Olds. The older, according to the younger, were cozying up to the patriarchy, in a desperate attempt to stave off their own irrelevance. Did an awkward joke, a bad date, or-as one memorable entry in the infamous Shitty Media Men list alleged-a “weird lunch” really constitute a form of harassment, let alone a cancellable offense? But other women, usually but not always younger, clucked their tongues: it was only because women kept putting up with such behavior that men kept thinking they could get away with it.Īt the time, the younger cohort appeared to the older like a bunch of hypersensitive harpies, retreating to the fainting couch at the slightest whiff of insult. This was where some women, usually but not always older, rolled their eyes. On the one hand, there was the question of what men shouldn’t do on the other, there was the question of what women could be expected to tolerate. She raises many important points in her piece, which we are reprinting below. -BWĭuring the peak of the #MeToo movement, the conversation about sexual harassment came down to two related but ultimately separate questions. Why, she asks, should women accept serious violence on the subway, or even the threat of it, and at the same time be expected to hold a policy of zero tolerance toward any kind of sexual harassment? As she writes: “If you argue that a woman can be traumatized by bawdy humor in the office or awkward come-ons in a bar, surely you would agree that she’s entitled to be fearful when trapped underground on a metal tube with an erratically behaving stranger twice her size.” Kat Rosenfield, meanwhile, has written a brilliant piece for UnHerd that explores our collective hypocrisy over different types of crime, particularly in our post-MeToo era. On the right, many are hailing Penny, who was charged with manslaughter on Friday, as a hero for protecting his fellow passengers at a time when crime in the city is on the rise. Many on the left are calling for Penny to be charged with murder after he put Neely into a fatal chokehold for behaving in a threatening, and possibly dangerous, manner. It is a tragic and controversial case that has divided the country. ![]() See /privacy for more information.On May 1, Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man, was choked to death by subway rider and former Marine Daniel Penny. To read the rest of the article and to see the accompanying graphs click here The Swedish media has not spared the retired professor any criticism. With typical Swedish punctuality, he returns to UnHerd - a day early. He is similarly gruff, but notably more cautious this time around, after a year-long fight which had become, in Sweden, just as political and personal as it had in the UK and America. He contended that the difference in infection and death rates between countries would “come out in the wash”, regardless of their lockdown policies and promised to return in a year’s time to review the evidence. The world was shutting down and he was the first voice to speak out so bluntly early in the pandemic. Johan Giesecke, advisor to the Director General of the WHO, former Chief Scientist of the EU Centre for Disease Control, and former state epidemiologist of Sweden came out forcefully against lockdowns. This time a year ago, something extraordinary happened. ![]()
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