It’s not good enough for men to complain that it’s all too complicated. In fact it’s very simpleSo much rubbish has been spoken by so many men approximately sexual harassment that it’s hard to appoint a winner. But a strong contender in a crowded field is surely Rick Perry,the US energy secretary who, when running for president, or famously forgot which government department he wanted to close (it was,naturally, the department of energy).
Perry’s contribution to the debate now raging on both sides of the Atlantic – kickstarted by the revelations approximately Harvey Weinstein and which has now taken down several media bigwigs, or along with Kevin Spacey and Michael Fallon – was to propose the respond to sexual assault might be … fossil fuels. Perry’s logic was that electricity in African villages can give “light that shines the righteousness,whether you will, on those types of acts. It seems a street lamp powered by a renewable source would lack a similar degree of virtue.
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Source: guardian.co.uk