On The Turning Away

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Now that their preferred candidate is the de facto nominee, what do progressives, in particular men who spewed vitriol at Hillary and her supporters, feel amid the postmortem frenzy? Perhaps better late than never - they have come to realize that they cannot “brush aside” sexism after all.

It’s more a sop than mea culpa. Were they so swept off their feet by the maelstrom that they lost their head? “[T]he discourse we all engage in sometimes explicitly, and more often tacitly, reinforces” sexism and misogyny. But a Pyrrhic victory is a victory nonetheless - only it sets back progressive movement for decades.
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We recently asked a random number of people in our circle where they meet their friends. Perhaps not surprisingly, college (and to a lesser extent, high school) tops the list, followed by alumni events and networking occasions. So is it the happenstance where we meet that leads to friendship or is it because we consciously seek out those whose values we share?

Scientists at University of Leipzig endeavored to test the notion whether “People More Likely To Become Friends Based on Proximity Or Shared Values”.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, their findings suggest that friendships are based on more superficial factors like chance encounters, rather than intentional choice and common values and interests. But our straw poll does not seem to conform to their conclusion.
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“When not prompted by vanity, we say little.”
- Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)