Alyssa Milano started a Me Too tweeting storm when she asked people to write 'Me Too' as a reply to her tweet.
The 'Me Toos' haven't stopped since!
Why?
Because most, if not all, women have been at least sexually harassed during their lifetimes - I can't even pretend it's just women, it's girls as young as far as you can imagine. Men are harassed too! Don't forget that!
Men are harassed and, maybe not as much as women, but it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, emotionally and physically, as much as it hurts anyone else!
Some people you might know that joined the 'me too' movement (and admitted to being harassed) are:
Anna Paquin
Debra Messing
Lea Thompson
Kristin Bauer
Anika Noni Rose
Sophia Bush
...and many more people (not just celebrities) have come out and supported the #MeToo .
Sexual harassment and assault isn't a joke.
Raising sexual harassment and assault awareness is important. It tells the aggressors people won't just stand there and take it, be bought and sold like willing slaves, they won't just pretend it didn't happen and the shame the aggressors feel within themselves can't be transferred to their victims.
Alyssa Milano's "Me Too" Tweeting Invitation Is Brilliant
I like the concept. I guess my only thing about it is, while yes it does happen to guys too. I've met girls who called something harassment that wasn't even remotely harassment. I also know of women who outright lied about harassment. So on the other end for men is being victim of false accusations (like myself) and losing a job, or getting kicked out of school, or having their reputation damaged if not being thrown in jail on a false claim. Such as rape allegations.
That's why when I see that wave of #MeToo I have to wonder how many of them are real. Because straight up. a lot of women lie and some women lie about major things. Or the very least interpret something as something it wasn't. Like a girl who assumes a guy is hitting on her and it turns out he's gay and was just complimenting her outfit.
Love how the picture is of a man being harassed by a man, once again pretending that women never do anything evil towards men. Just as many men are harassed by women as women are men, but when we live in a society that excused women's sexual aggression and advances and considers male victims "lucky"... it's easy to say mostly women are the victims.
You try living as a male for one day and get back to me. It's easy to make your claim especially when you live in a world that tells you "hi miss" is sexual harassment. I was sexually assaulted by a female... I had no one to call, there was no shelters or help. There was no assistance or people to counsel me, no societal support. Just like the endless cases of female teachers who rape underage males and society says "good for him"... it isn't seen as a negative. So step down from your high horse, because when you come from your privileged protected bubble, it makes you look ignorant to pretend that you somehow have a horrible victimhood
If you mean you dressed up as a male and pretending that it somehow equals being a male... you didn't actually accomplish anything. You simply proved that in your fictional version of what you thought made you a male you experienced what you wanted to justify your cause.
You would need to be a male, have females be interested in you, want to be with you, etc.
Your claim to maleness being "proof" that we are not victims of women, is like me dressing up as an Indian for a day and claiming aboriginals weren't unjustly treated.
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