Do you remember the dial phone. The one that you stuck a finger into a hole of the first number, spun it clockwise until you hit a metal stop, pulled your finger out to allow the dial to return and repeat with the next number. How about the toy walkie-talkies that had a range of maybe 10 yards. Or the cans on a string that had a range that was limited to how loud you could shout. What about those notes that you passed in school; that said I like you, do you like me? With the box beside yes and no. 

 

Then along came the pushbutton dial phone. And the CB radio. Oh, nothing will ever replace the cans with a string! Then email and Facebook and Instagram and Whats App and Skype and on and on and on........... Now you can bombard him or her with all these tools and you don't have to include a yes no box. But be careful, there is a current rash of ultra-sensitive people that never had an experience that they did not instigate therefore YOU are invading their safe space, therefore, YOU must be a pervert.

 

Question. Has technology rendered the average person unable to understand and react in the moment to unwanted advances? Have people now decided that what they need is their 15 minutes of fame by tooting their horn in public because they are too coward to truly address the problem at the source and then immediately reporting it to whatever powers that be to attempt to ensure that the perpetrator has his/her proper day of reckoning? In other words, strike while the iron is hot. 

 

Before you go off half-cocked let me explain. I am not saying nor inferring that the current wave of women and men that are coming forward to share their stories, accusations or nightmares, whatever the case may be, that their plight should be taken lightly. Nay, these possible transgressions need to be properly investigated and the appropriate actions need to be implemented because then the light of truth has been shone. By the same token, if one or more of the plaintiffs accounts are found without merit then they too should suffer the wrath of their actions. However, in today's climate of, woe is the accuser, their actions will probably be forgiven. If so that's a damn shame. Whatever happened to, 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander'?