It’s been six months since #Metoo began trending on social media. Since these two words have sparked a conversation about sexual harassment against women, which has spread around the world and in all spheres of life. Six months on it is time to take stock and ask what women gained from this movement.
The charges against Harvey Weinstein a lot of actors and employees and going decades, now skin-crawlingly familiar. However, a New story York times, in which the actress Ashley Judd and other for the first time publicly detailed the alleged sexual harassment Weinstein that led to his resignation just three days later would make headlines for a week and then faded into history. Instead, the story continues and the list of victims and those accused—ROS.
A week later, the actress Alyssa Milano tweeted: “if you have been sexually harassed or abused to write ‘me too’ as a response to this tweet.” Milan did not understand that she is using a phrase first coined by activist Tarana Burke offer solidarity to women victims of sexual violence. More than a decade later, and with the support of celebrities, #Metoo quickly spread to become a global movement that has spread far beyond social networking.
Membership in the Metoo #attractive. Women share their stories become part of the community (although there are more in the imagination than in reality); they get to check their sufferings and provide moral beatification of innocent victims. Significantly, #Metoo not about women, wallowing in victimhood; on the contrary, it seems empowering. The more loud men who were charged, convicted after trial on social media and left the livelihood and reputation destroyed, especially #Metoo movements grew bolder.
No doubt some men in the abuse of power they held over women: they should be dealt with in court and, in the case of recognition guilty, suffered the appropriate punishment. But those of us seriously concerned about the rights of women, must pass the euphoria of belonging to a powerful movement and honestly assess the impact of Metoo#. When we do, we find a number of reasons for concern.
#Metoo became Orthodoxy is intolerant of criticism or even question. Women who suggested that he may have gone too far, that the connection of rape with risk crude flirting banality of serious incidents and falsely denigrate innocent people were fired for thoughtcrime. Katie Roiphe has prompted outrage when it was rumored that she may publish a list of “fucking men”, which was widely circulated among writers and journalists. Roiphe recalls that “before the piece was even finished, not to mention published, people would call me ‘Pro-rape’ ‘human garbage,’ and ‘hag,’ and ‘the monster from Stephen king’s “it”, ” a ” ghoul,’ and ‘bitch’ and ‘garbage man.” Catherine Deneuve and more than 100 other prominent French women met with tsunami-like name-calling and criticism after their open letter comparing #Metoo to the witch hunt. The result was a strict closure of the debate on the crude division between “good” women to adhere to #a script, Metoo and “bad women” who were distracted.
Criticism of poor women with no limitations. Producer Jill Messick, best known for his work on “mean girls” and “Frieda”, committed suicide in February. Messick worked in the Studio miramax Weinstein between 1997 and 2003 and was the Manager of rose McGowan in the late 1990-ies. As #Metoo got the land, McGowan alleged she was raped by Weinstein, and that Messick knew, but did not take appropriate action. According to reports Messick already suffering from depression; it seems unlikely that being sandwiched between McGowan and Weinstein, between the claim and counterclaim may have did much good for her mental health. The speed with which Messick was written out of history, it becomes clear that activists #Metoo some people’s lives are worth more than others.
#Metoo is a moral crusade where facts are easily sacrificed for the benefit of the business. When it comes to saying rape, sexual violence or harassment, it is important that activists are not objective characteristics that can be proved or disproved, but subjective feelings of the accused. #Metoo revised sexual harassment as unwanted behavior. Since the case against the actor Aziz Ansari has shown, defining violence as an undesirable behavior, leads us into the realm of a bad day. Leaving the restaurant too early, pouring wine without asking, without even trying to kiss, can be rude, but they are only disturbances in the mind of the most ardent #Metoo crusaders. Women in such cases are deprived of any Agency; apparently unable to say “no”, they must rely on the presumption of male skills, to protect them from spam. It is not only to prepare the ground for miscarriages of justice, he makes all the interactions between men and women are associated with risks.
It is perhaps not surprising, then, that #Metoo removed, the polls suggested that men feel uncomfortable mentoring women, or just work with them in the office. As a result, women’s opportunities for promotion can be re-installed. And those women, fortunately, employment: thanks to the raised under the banner of #Metoo women who worked as Formula 1 “grid girls” lost their jobs. A woman without a job they enjoy now a feminist act. New York the waitresses were, fortunately, did not pay attention to them, when a group of Hollywood Actresses became the application for termination of the restaurant tipping culture. “Shut up!” brought them back to a clear answer.
Motion #Metoo treats women like children, unable to fend for themselves or be able to make their own choices in life. In the UK there are calls to street harassment of women whistling and catcalling should be made a criminal offence. Last week, the screen actors Guild has proposed to prohibit the “listening hotel”. Recommendations to women was that if a safe place cannot be found to listen, they must be accompanied by “peer support”. We need to ditch the therapeutic language and call it what it is: companion. The previous generation of feminists fought against this protection, the infantilism. Today activists #Metoo is all too happy to see to demonize men, and protects women.
Six months we see that some women definitely got louder due to the movement #Metoo. Unfortunately, all they can do is to proclaim their victims and require greater protection. #Metoo with his constant repetition of outdated tropes of predatory men and women, constitutes a serious invasion of our personal liberties. We need to challenge this campaign before it does more damage.
Joanna Williams is the author of women against feminism: why we all need relief from the gender wars.
Sourse: theamericanconservative.com
