I reluctantly did the cut and paste of this, without adding any detail but now I'm glad I did.
For those of you who don't do Facebook, this is the post:
"Me too.
If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote "Me too" as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.
Please copy/paste."
That's it. The idea is to spread awareness. These attacks (these behaviours) are the shameful secret of the predator, not the victim. If it makes more people speak up in public or in private, that's all to the good.
It's heartening to see the solidarity between women (and yes, men can post it too, if they want to), saddening when you see if from younger women (one woman spoke of her sadness at seeing her daughter post it) and really quite sickening (for me) to see accusations of attention-seeking, "patting oneself on the back", anti-men hysteria etc. mostly from men but from a few women too. I've held my tongue today, as one of the people moaning the most about it posts on Facebook every detail of her life, from her shoes to her dinner to who she met last night. Maybe we're taking Likes away from her.
I don't really need to tell anyone here that if you see someone post "me, too", you should think a bit about what it's taken to post that.
For those of you who don't do Facebook, this is the post:
"Me too.
If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote "Me too" as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.
Please copy/paste."
That's it. The idea is to spread awareness. These attacks (these behaviours) are the shameful secret of the predator, not the victim. If it makes more people speak up in public or in private, that's all to the good.
It's heartening to see the solidarity between women (and yes, men can post it too, if they want to), saddening when you see if from younger women (one woman spoke of her sadness at seeing her daughter post it) and really quite sickening (for me) to see accusations of attention-seeking, "patting oneself on the back", anti-men hysteria etc. mostly from men but from a few women too. I've held my tongue today, as one of the people moaning the most about it posts on Facebook every detail of her life, from her shoes to her dinner to who she met last night. Maybe we're taking Likes away from her.
I don't really need to tell anyone here that if you see someone post "me, too", you should think a bit about what it's taken to post that.
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