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...and begin to talk about power. Sexual violence is about power and privilege. That doesn’t change if the perpetrator is your favorite actress, activist or professor of any gender. And we won’t shift the culture unless we get serious about shifting these false narratives.
My hope is that as more folks come forward, particularly men, that we prepare ourselves for some hard conversations about power and humanity and privilege and harm. This issue is less about crime & punishment and more about harm and harm reduction.
A shift can happen. This movement is making space for possibility. But, it can only happen after we crack open the whole can of worms and get really comfortable with the uncomfortable reality that there is no one way to be a perpetrator.
...and there is no model survivor. We are imperfectly human and we all have to be accountable for our individual behavior.
People will use these recent news stories to try and discredit this movement - don’t let that happen. This is what Movement is about. It’s not a spectator sport. It is people generated. We get to say “this is/isn’t what this movement is about!”
My question is why did you have to wait for one of the #metoo
spokespeople to be accused of sexually assaulting a male minor in order to make this generous tweet supporting equality among genders? How come there wasn’t more of an effort to support both genders before this?
Damage control, male victims were rarely highlighted and no victims of women were highlighted at all. This is just more disingenuousness
You could always encourage those doing the ridiculing to ridicule the shitty people like the person to rudely tagged in here (Ro). That’s really bad form. You could also choose to not be shitty to the woman doing the most damn work but, hey, that’s just me.
Rape is only nominally a gender issue. It is substantially an impunity issue. http://sathyagraha.blogspot.com/2013/01/rape-is-only-nominally-gender-issue-it.html?m=1 … Indeed, Tarana ji, unless we precisely identify the enablers - the abusers of power and privilege for personal satisfaction - we'll never get a grip on this burgeoning evil.
I agree with everything but the crime & punishment part. Sexual assault is a crime because it is sexualized violence. Crimes must be prosecuted, & criminals must face consequences or no one will be safe.
If men started coming forward en masse, there wouldn't be a woman in power left standing with her reputation preserved. Can anyone on this planet honestly say that they've never crossed some form of sexual line? How long are we going to allow this conversation to ruin people?
You better get right with why you needed to respond this way, sir. #blackmirror
I've got dirt on three female bosses of mine. The difference between me and you is I respect them enough to confront them rather than ruin their lives publicly.
Your assumptions just get bigger and bigger, don’t they?
Yeah, it's only been a year or so of men getting told to shut up and stop trying to make it about them when they come out with their stories. But you know, thanks for trying.
I think that the idea that this is not about punishment would come as a surprise to all the men whose careers and have been turned into wreckage without a trial, how do they heal, especially if they were innocent of wrong doing?
I agreed w/all that U said except for 1 thing. Up til now, it HAS been abt crime & punishment, just as much as harm & harm reduction. IDK your motive behind that tweet but, it's funny that it comes when a woman is accused. We need that SAME ENERGY ppl had when it wz only bad men.
sadly any famous men/children who try to come forward about the ritual abuse they endure(d) will be "silenced"
THIS THIS THIS. I’m with you @TaranaBurke!!
The issue is about POWER, and sometimes, women have it and use it for hypocritical or false accusations. (Has the #metoo movement moved into the real world yet, or is it still stuck in Hollywood and DC?)
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