The shadow went into Mi-Tu's minefield and came out in one piece

There is a lot of talk about the change in discourse following Mi-Tu, but when do men take part in it?

Especially when they talk about their difficulty adjusting to a world where "you have to think twice about each compliment".

It's hard to remember cases of high-profile people like the shadow who put themselves on the table and said "I did" and "I regret"

Strider Schleider Putschnik

14/01/2022

Friday, 14 January 2022, 00:08

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A deeper and rounder figure than it seems.

The Shadow (Photo: Shuka Cohen)

Is 537,000 followers of the shadow also one of Asi Ezer? If so, he could have learned an important lesson this week in defusing bombs. In a post he posted on his Facebook page, the shadow admitted that he was guilty of misconduct and harassment of women over the years, acts he claims he did not understand then how much they hurt while today he sees them in a different light and strikes at sin.

What would have happened if Assi Ezer - who does not deny trying to "start" with Yehuda Nahari during a meeting at his home about ten years ago - instead of going for a polygraph test (and answering very engineered questions), had written a comment in the spirit of the shadow post? This question can also be asked from another direction: what will happen if in a week, two weeks or a month someone claims that the "shadow" has bothered her? Understand where I'm heading?

It is impossible to rule out the possibility that such a thing will indeed happen, and even perhaps that Eliassi himself fears and anticipates that there is a reasonable chance that it will happen - which is why he wrote the post.

To anticipate a cure for mecha.

Maybe that's the point.

And yet, my impression is that the post is authentic.

The "shadow" is not a person of subtle allusions or sub-text.

It has no filters.

For the most part it is going to shake him, in my eyes at least.

This time it was credited to him.

Such a post coming out of the mouth of a character like "The Shadow" is a piece of jolt.

Let's say that I felt this earthquake much better than the earthquakes that were allegedly felt here two days ago following an earthquake in Cyprus.

The Shadow has been cultivating a stenciled macho figure for years, a cartoon of a male man - muscles and bristles, guns and flags, bibist rightism, racism and militarism.

The post he posted on Tuesday, in which he details his own inappropriate behaviors, and also briefly mentions a case where he himself was harassed by another man, as if not settling on these patterns.

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The shadow reveals: "I was harassed many times, I was touched inappropriately"

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For the girl.

The shadow with his family (Photo: Shuka Cohen)

How exactly does this man become one of the most significant Harley adapters of the post-Mi era?

Is it possible that the "shadow" - who deliberately tries to create such a one-dimensional image for himself - even the name he chose for his public persona embodies flat contours, a person's silhouette - is a deeper and rounder figure than it seems?

Judging from this post, the answer is yes.

And the fact that he himself refers to himself as 'Yoav', and not the shadow, also contributes to this.

And not just Yoav, but if Yoav is Thie's father.

Put aside for a moment his sometimes oxymoronic rhetoric - say, the fact that he burns a sentence like "I really am not a violent or aggressive person ...", a few lines after the sentence: "If someone had treated my daughter the way I treated some girls, I would leave Him without teeth in his mouth. " His post is not obligatory, his Mia Kolpa manifesto goes down to the details: I judged in contemptuous competitions (wet shirt), exerted pressure and sanctions on women to have sex with me ("I took girls halfway out of the car when they refused me"), spoke repulsively, etc.

I also put aside (for a moment) the sentence "I did things that were once considered normal and today would not be accepted", which can and should be argued with (take someone out of the car halfway because she did not agree to have sex with you - pretty sure it was never considered normal) .

But there is something right in this reflection, at least regarding some of the behaviors he regrets (provocative clips, wet shirt contests, using status and publicity to rake in sexual benefits, etc.) what to do - really suffered much more easily in the past, not to mention were considered very legitimate.

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"Suddenly Asi Ezer pulled out the organ. 'Doesn't that excite you?', He asked. 'Try, what do you care?'"

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What happens when his audience reads such a post?

The Shadow (Photo: Nir Peking)

There is a lot of talk about the change in discourse following Mi-Tu, but when do men take part in this discussion? Mostly as a reaction after being blamed or someone close to them for something of the genre, or when they talk about their difficulty adjusting to a world where "you have to think twice about any courtship or compliment." Do not remember too many cases of people in high profile as of the shadow who put themselves on the table, not the "issue", and said "I did" and "I regret".

The Shadow's post managed to speak in a very natural and honest way about something that for quite a few men who are portrayed as "enlightened" or liberal is a minefield that they fail to neutralize. They talk around him but not about him for fear he will explode and they will be hit by shrapnel. The shadow enters this minefield with a heavy leg and without a vest and manages to come out on the other side in one piece. You can be overwhelmed. One can also learn from it.

Not cool to make generalizations, but many of Shadow's followers still have common characteristics.

Men, young people, right-wingers and some even racists.

This is not a liberal audience, what happens when that audience reads the message of the shadow - a character they appreciate and admire, perhaps strive to resemble?

How might this change the way they themselves think and act in front of women, or their intuitive response to the next harassment affair to be exposed?

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