6 December—I had never heard of Chris Cuomo before his sick bastard brother Andrew’s well-deserved contretemps, which, since blood is thicker than water, Chris got involved in. And now Chris himself has been accused of sexual harassment because he groped a woman at a party 16 years ago. Allegedly not required because he apologized when the woman expressed her displeasure. Of course, Chris Cuomo has been fired from CNN. I can’t say I’ll miss him, because I’ve never watched CNN and don’t know where it is on my cable box.

Now that the screw-Chris Cuomo bandwagon has started rolling, expect other women to crawl on it as it wends its way down the tortuous and torturous boulevard of character assassination. Some of the accusatory revelations of inappropriate behavior may well be true, but I suspect that most, if not all, will be fabricated for whatever reasons. Because that’s what happens.

Men can’t win when they’re accused of even perfectly innocent actions—not just inappropriate touching—where women (and, these days, other men) are involved. Remember, 30 years ago, when Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas, then a federal circuit judge nominated by Bush 41 for elevation to SCOTUS, of sexual harassment simply because he had been lewd and crude? She didn’t claim he had tried to make it with her or even that he had touched her inappropriately.

So what if Clarence Thomas was being a typical guy? He has denied it, of course, but it shouldn’t matter. Guys will be guys. And gals will be gals. As opposed to men being men and women being women. (In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve been known to make crude remarks on all sorts of inappropriate occasions. And I’ve been known to hug and even kiss women with whom I’m not having sexual relationships.) Whatever women say is gospel, whatever they do is defensible. Unless they’re teachers who have it off with under-age pupils of either sex, of course.

If a woman is standing naked in a window and a man looks at her, he’s a voyeur, a peeping Tom. If a man is standing naked in a window and a woman looks at him, he’s an exhibitionist. In both cases, the man is the guilty party, the woman is the victim. That may be somewhat of an exaggeration, to be sure, but it’s not far from the truth.

Modern women may resent men holding doors open for them and other common courtesies, but they take full advantage of the legal preferences and privileges they’re given by modern political correctness . . .