Has the # metoo movement hurt women? If so, how?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Yeah because men can’t trust them now, ESPECIALLY when they make their cases political. “We hate one person/party so much that we’ll just make up fake stories to see them expelled from government!”

NO... allow the government to function fairly strictly down to policy that the people want. If you’re losing, form better arguments on your stance or simply improve your stance. These childish games trying to ruin people’s reputations NEED TO GO!

Now if a man simply makes a woman angry, she can just make up a fake story, and we #alwaysbelievethewoman no matter what right? Nope, nuh-huh, not gonna happen! These identity based politics are insulting, and only drive a wedge further between men and women.

If you can’t see that, you need to do some research. I know it feels good to want to always think women are right 100% of the time, but the SIMPLE FACT is that they are not. Sorry, but people need to start owning up to their mistakes, owning the fact that not everyone is going to be happy all the time, not everyone is going to agree, and move on! Be good to people. Don’t look to divide, look to be better in everything YOU do. Stop pointing fingers.

I’m not saying that women aren’t ever victims of such things as sexual assault, obviously it happens. But keep yourself out of threatening situations, say no when you mean no, and when or if you do give in, you consented, so if you regret it later, YOU made a mistake, not the other person who thought you were cool with it.

If women would just act like women and lady like and be more conservative, you could avoid a lot of these issues entirely, have some foresight and be responsible. Don’t just give in to your raw human impulses. Own your mistakes. Be better. Don’t point the finger!

I’m just so sick of all these people forwarding all these liberal feel good agendas that are completely void of common sense. Use your heads people, it’s causing division amongst us all.

hellionthesagereborn · Accepted Answer

Yes. Men are unwilling to mentor women now because a woman only has to make an accusation to destroy his life, this means that women are not going to be moving up as much in businesses and companies. Men are also less willing to perform CPR and things like that on women for fear of being accused of sexual assault thanks to the #metoo movement. Finally men are a lot more cautious around women in general which is going to make dating harder for women then before. All of this has been proven to be the case: fortune.com/2018/02/06/lean-in-sheryl-sandberg/
www.thestar.com/.../...aving-first-aid-teitel.html
www.insideedition.com/henry-cavill-suggests-hes-afraid-date-after-metoo-because-he-could-be-called-rapist-44971
www.dailywire.com/.../metoo-backlash-survey-shows-twice-many-men-now-ben-shapiro
But women did it to themselves, women decided they could capitalize on the fact that they would never be called out never be punished for lying and destroying mens lives, that they would never have to worry about their stories completely falling apart under analysis because they knew no one would ever bother. They treated men as if all men are evil as if all attempts at interactions with them where sexual in nature and now this is what they get for it. It sucks for men and women but its what women wanted so now they have it.

SueShe · Accepted Answer

It has not hurt them half as much as it has helped them to finally be taken seriously by the male gentry.

What was once considered as normal, meaning to abuse women financially, sexually and intellectually is now frowned upon, not because men suddenly understand women but because they are forced to accept equality up to a certain extend. Full equality will most likely never exist. Women will still be seen and treated as sexual objects that are solely good to get rid of excessive testosterone levels.

Nobody wants to give up privileges if not forced by law. It took millions of years for women to reach that status that give them an appearance of equality. Much is still left to do and it will take generations to come close to equality.

Taylor_C · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately it has. It undermined the credibility of female victims, and took focus away from real crimes on women by equalling some woman getting her ass pinched 20 years ago with real rape, genital mutilation and other real offenses.

CoffeeWC · Answer

I'd say it's further polarized men and women.

Anonymous · Answer

There is no question it has hurt women. The facts prove that. There have been a lot of studies that show:

1) People, both men and women, are less likely now than before MeToo to believe a woman when she accuses a man of rape.
2) As a result of 1), women are actually LESS likely now than before MeToo to feel comfortable coming forward when they have been sexually assaulted or harassed.
3) Managers are more likely now than before MeToo to be hesitant to hire female candidates.
4) Men are more likely to avoid associating with women in the workplace (the so-called "Pence rule"), which isolates women and hinders their professional development.
5) Men and women are more desensitized to the issues of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment now than before MeToo.

All the studies that support what I've said here are easily available to anyone who wants to to the research online. Google is your friend.

As with pretty much everything modern feminism does, MeToo has done far more harm than good to both men AND women.

Anonymous · Answer

The longer term effects have harmed women (and men) more than helped them.

https://leanin. org/sexual-harassment-backlash-survey-results (<-- remove the spaces before and after the dot)

"Now more than ever, we need men to actively support women at work. Instead, they’re pulling back."

"60% of managers who are men are uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone, or socializing together.1 That’s a 32% jump from a year ago."

"Senior-level men are now far more hesitant to spend time with junior women than junior men across a range of basic work activities.3 They are:

12x more likely to hesitate to have 1-on-1 meetings
9x more likely to hesitate to travel together for work
6x more likely to hesitate to have work dinners"

"As for why this is happening, 36% of men say they’ve avoided mentoring or socializing with a woman because they were nervous about how it would look."

So why is this happening? Because men are afraid of being accused of something they didn't do or intend, and rightly so. And equally important, society in general and feminism in particular are unwilling to even acknowledge the elephant in the room, let alone try to do anything about it. That elephant, of course, is the issue of false accusations. The rate of false accusations is MUCH higher than generally acknowledged by feminists, and that must change before we can have an honest conversation about any of the above, and before men will once again be comfortable associating with women.

Women have harmed themselves, and men, with the MeToo movement, and now they need to fix it. It is up to women, not men to do so. And the answer, of course, is honesty. Without some honesty from feminism, we will never fix any of this.

bolverk · Answer

They are now learning object lesson on the law of unintended consequences but it is not the feminists who are suffering the blow-back the most.
Men who have to work with women are letting it be know to all of those that they have to work with why they are responding to #METOO the way they are, saying no individual meetings, no dinners, no after work drinks, no mentoring etc.
This response is just common sense & self defence on the men's part - You see a hazard to you and your career - You avoid it.
Well done feminists you created an atmosphere where women will now be getting LESS mentoring & support than they did BEFORE #METOO.

Uannoyme · Answer

Since it has become a giant bandwagon, I believe it has caused real victims to be taken less seriously. When we start considering it sexual assault when a woman is made to feel uncomfortable, it makes people stop listening.

IAmRedThunder · Answer

I appreciate what it’s done for victims of sexual abuse, but for some people who don’t want to tell anybody (myself included) it has hurt a bit. Sucks to be reminded over and over again on social media of sexual abuse and getting flashbacks. And seeing people who are much more brave than you, not ashamed to tell people about it.

Shezadi · Answer

I agree with the point about some women not being real victims. It gives women a benefit of doubt. In Ched Evans case, the girl filed a case just because she regretted having a one night stand. However, that case set precedent because in that case, a female judge allowed the lawyers to look at her sexual history. Thanks to that case, now a woman's sexual history will be considered because when they looked at her ex-partners, they told the court that the girl had the habit of crying in the morning because in the morning, she regretted it.

HomoFuge · Answer

I think a lot of people forget that the Me Too movement is not just for women. It is for men as well. A lot of male celebrities also came out talking about the sexual abuse they suffered. Terry Crews came out and said he experienced sexual abuse. I

Passinggas · Answer

It certainly has isolated women at work. Most men I know try to avoid them completely and they have less mentoring opportunities than before because men do not want to be alone with them. If a group travels, we now split them, separate hotels and cars. I never have a meeting without at least a third person. I turned down training one and I told them I will quit before I have to spend alone hours with one. I also will not fill in or take up the slack for any that have to always take time off, f-that. And, I now don’t give any rape or sh stories any credibility anymore. They have become liar bsht stories as far as I am concerned.

Celtero · Answer

Supposedly men are less keen to mentor women now, and both men and women are less likely to hire them, but this is according to poll data, and I doubt women would actually be affected.

Personally, I've always felt like showing interest in women would be unwanted, and metoo has exacerbated this. Sure, the movement started off fine, some nasty men exposed, but it devolved into women desperate to become a part of it, sharing stories of how guys hit on them and such. I even saw one women ask if being treated poorly by another woman in HR was grounds for her joining metoo.

dimetridrossos · Answer

Its hurt men and women. it's hurt men because women can simply "feel" violated and even if that was her fault for feeling violated when there was nothing going on, she then feels like she can convict him of rape even though he is innocent! and this negitivly impacts women as well because now men don't want to be near women in fear of them convicting them of rape for doing. nothing at all because she could "feel" violated and then thinks she can convict him of rape and ruin his life. Of corse a lot of women would be disgusted when hearing other women would do that, but most men just aren't willing to take the risk. So yes, the #MeToo movement has fucked up all of us... except the feminists who like ruining innocent mens lives and getting them to lose their trust in women.

Prof_Don · Answer

The downside to #MeToo is the fear of false allegations affecting men wanting to mentor women.

For me, a false allegation WILL derail the career he has worked so hard to build. Men all know that a broke man isn’t worth jack shit in society, so we will protect our income at all costs.

If that means only having close 1-on-1 mentorship relationships with male employees, then so be it.

Taking on a female 1-on-1 mentor would be WAY too risky.

Thus, women will have a glass ceiling in the workforce due to #MeToo. This could have been prevented if women were more diligent and open about defending men who are falsely accused of sexual crimes.

Chadnelson1973 · Answer

Sooner or later it will do more harm than good. Sooner or later there will be false accusations and someone's life will change for the worst. Yes there possative things going on with the me too movement but there's some very questionable things going on too.
As with any movement it comes with both good and bad intentions. The problem with any movement once you let the genie out of the bottle you can't put the genie back in.
So for those who are thinking of using the metoo movement you need to think do you want to be in the media spot light or are you better off finding another way? And for those doing dumb stuff think do you want the metoo movement to catch you and have unwanted game or attention? There are people who have done things 10 and 20 ,30 40 years ago and it was socially acceptable but is catching up to them now. So be careful what you do now it will catch up later. I see the metoo movement as karma on steroids

winterfox10 · Answer

It seems to have reduced women's credibility, and made men more cautious about how they deal with women.

Anonymous · Answer

Half the people who are coming forward now aren't even real victims and because of them they make it very hard for real victims to believed

sawno · Answer

Its made dating harder for them since men are scared of being falsely accused.
Women will be on average less likely to be approached until the imbalance is corrected and the guy can not get sue'd for trying to flirt.

CubsterShura · Answer

Absolutely not. Now more men will think twice before doing things they should have been thinking twice about before doing in the first place. If they did #MeToo wouldn't exist and I have to kinda say that men brought this onto themselves. We had a whole generation of men who were too comfortable treating women like their feelings aren't valid.

MlleCake · Answer

I really don't see how.

Miristheiss · Answer

Maybe.
Less apt to hire women.
Women's charges are looked at as ridiculous.

For example the non-legit stuff like...20 years ago this well known person touched my butt.

Ok,... and?

Why are you making this public now?
Do you expect us to just fire him?
There is 100% no way to prove or disprove this.

This stupid type of crap.

40 years ago someone said something that made me uncomfortable.

Ok... thanks for sharing that.

White-American89 · Answer

It's taken away a lot of trust. Like you can't trust any woman now who isn't your wife or related to otherwise you risk your life being destroyed.

SirRexington · Answer

Well, it is certainly made me a lot less likely to believe them. I've also noticed it has caused hiring issues. men are less likely to approach women, as per studies reveal.

But let's look at how it benefited women... Oh, there are no real positives or improvements that came with it? Oh well.

loki35 · Answer

I'd say yes, and before you cast your stones at me realize your using #metoo just for women that stuff happens to men as well. On the same note as long as it's the truth it should be brought up and be supported but a false accusations can destroy the lives of many people so it's a very delicate situation.

worldscolide · Answer

I will leave this here...

Anonymous · Answer

There are always upsides and downsides to everything usually. But I think more positive has probably come out of it than negative. I mean not feeling like you have no voice is awful, so changing that can only be a good thing, men being more reserved is hardly a complaint in that context is it.

Anonymous · Answer

No. It has helped beyond words. We know we're not alone and we now have the strength and support to come forward when someone abuses their power.

tara987 · Answer

It hasn't. It has empowered women to speak up about times they have been mistreated or abused. It is good for all of us.

stardust101 · Answer

No, if anything it’s made women more self empowered rather than feeling angry and annihilated

grega239 · Answer

From what I've heard men are refusing to mentor women, be alone in a room with them, leaving the doors open in officess and so on..

This isn't bcs of metoo itself but bcs some women have used it for selfish gain by leveling false accusations against men.

MusicMayhem · Answer

It's hurt everyone. It's just increased the negativity both genders have for each other so now even less men are willing to approach women.

Sammy165 · Answer

It’s become a voice for women. I don’t think it’s impacted us negatively at all.

R_Cakes91 · Answer

If anything it exposes the rapists/ sexual assaulters who got away.

ask67 · Answer

I think the original idea was very helpful. It's been exposing rapists and giving the victims a voice. It's all about control with rape, but this movement has given some of those women their control back.
Now on the flip side, I think in a few cases people have made it into a fad. I think some people have come out and falsely accused to be a part of it. Anyone who does that deserves jail time.

wittymilf · Answer

It’s sad that women feeling empowered to talk about things that make them I comfortable has to be referred to as a movement. That effected me more than the movement itself. That’s some crazy shit.

Anonymous · Answer

Since most of the whining was over bullshit like "unwanted advancements" which included simply asking a girl out.
Taking females seriously is hard to do now.
If a female claims some horrific thing, I am instantly skeptical (and often right) about their motives.

Anonymous · Answer

I think so becuase most of those metro allegation was proven to be lies or not enough evidence. And now it's kinda hard to believe them. Becuase woman know that most people will see them as victims. It makes you look them as liars unless they close in your circle chance are I dont care what happens to any random female

MecheD · Answer

I believe it has opened a lot to talk about. Women I believe should have rights but at the same point in time with those rights comes the extra things along with it.

Curmudgeon · Answer

Like most other Leftist movements, it has touted out and out lies against some men, while excusing very real abuse of women by other men.

bannacookies · Answer

It's hurt everything. Its gone too far.

SomeGuyCalledTom · Answer

It's got justice for some who genuinely deserved justice, but it's hurt many others because of the movement's tendency to overreach in its accusations.

AlaeTenebris · Answer

I think it has. Not all of them, but the false accusations that are coming out against men, and womenas well, just make it more difficult for actual victims to be heard/ taken seriously.

crazy8000 · Answer

Those that has misused it creates more negative effects then people realize no matter if it's sexsistic to shame attack those that has been through harassment just because of their gender or for that matter made up stories or tempered stories.

YHL6965 · Answer

Yes, in my opinion, it has given a false sense of importance to many women while reducing the "relative importance" of actual victims. It hurt real victims because of all the attention whores that hijacked the movements.

Dante19xx · Answer

I'm actually happy false rape accusations are starting to get the accuser a felony charge

Ellie-V · Answer

I’m sure it has for some. There are positives and negatives to everything.

Anonymous · Answer

No I think it’s good hopefully guys become less desperate and stop talking to women and approaching women and just get sex dolls. Guys need to quit putting women on pedestals hopefully this has made guys less desperate

Syrian_survivor · Answer

It's a powerful movement, and logically many people will try to abuse that power, which is why the movement turned bad really quickly as it's so accessible to everyone, it was meant to be good.

OddBeMe · Answer

Nope. It’s finally told the dirty truth we’ve been hiding for centuries. We’re a patriarchal society. We can still take a critical and logical approach to Me too claims, ie, Aziz Ansari.

DDpsy · Answer

Hurt lower class and lower middle class women. Helped upper middle class and upper class women. Most mainstream "progressive" things do exactly that.

Anonymous · Answer

I think there have been enough fake cases of metoo where it has eroded there credibility of accusers and the concept of believing guilt before anything proven makes it a farce.

Anonymous · Answer

Yup no man wants to deal with woman in a professional setting now because all she has to do is lie and his life is ruined so women have a harder time receiving promotions and working in general

AuroraRoseat · Answer

Nope. It’s helped a lot.

JadeOFluorite99 · Answer

I think it has helped them by probably making perverts more reluctant to sexually harass people.

curiousvirgin55 · Answer

A lot of men are afraid of being let alone with a women so women are losing higher job opportunities, because bosses don't feel comfortable to taking female apprentices

Anonymous · Answer

In a lot of ways, it has hurt women and men. It made it easier for people to lie about harrassment/assault. This made legitimate claims less believable. It also ruined some innocent people's lives.

NerdInDenial · Answer

It hurts women in a sense that less men approach them resulting in less mating opportunities.

GreatnessBack · Answer

Yes and no. I'm glad assaulters got their comupance, but sad that good guys are even more actually to approach women.

Nikunj70 · Answer

Definitely not actually every one has their right against bad things happened to them and Mee provide this platform

bamesjond0069 · Answer

I would never hire a woman. If a cute girl applied to work for me id say no way denied and then ask her on a date.

JackofSpades · Answer

It makesit harder to trust the legit cases of harassment and assault because a handful of women who are overreacting or straight up crying wolf.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, according to the latest survey female hiring managers are more likely than male hiring managers to not hire an attractive women. Once again, women stabbing other women in the back.

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