It’s 2017, and sexual harassment is a no-no. In recent times, Hollywood Producer Harvey Weinstein has been made to face the music for sexually harassing actresses throughout his career, starting with his being fired from the Weinstein Company.
Time and again, when women share stories of sexual harassment on Twitter, the popular clapback is #NotAllMen.
Actress Alyssa Milano, in light of recent events, began a social experiment on Twitter to expose how ubiquitous sexual harassment really is.
See below:
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/919659438700670976
So far, her tweet has garnered over 59,000 replies and 21,000 retweets. And the stories are so numerous, Twitter helped the trend along by curating it on Moments.
These are seven women sharing traumatising tales, whose effects some are yet to overcome.
See below:
Story 1: Sam
Story 2: Kimbo
Story 3
Story 4: @LoveAndyC
#MeToo pic.twitter.com/GqQAHYeks8
— Cindy Cee (@LoveCindyCee) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/Carter_retrac1/status/920018591570939905
I couldn't get anyone to write me a statement saying what they saw. Everyone was afraid for their jobs.
— Cindy Cee (@LoveCindyCee) October 16, 2017
Story 5: Cassidy
Me too. At a press junket by A-List celebrity. Witnesses. I didn't report it because I didn't want his name attached to my career forever.
— cassidy rainforest gard (@cassidygard) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/helpingheroespr/status/919791735416356864
Story 6: Meiko
Story 7: Julie
https://twitter.com/julieposetti/status/920146998476529664
And Gabby shares her story too
https://twitter.com/GabbyEveryDay/status/920179324292091904
Men open up, too
While I know this is about women as I man I was sexually abused by a man when I was child and it haunts me to this day #MeToo
— NW Bucs fan (@NWBUCFAN) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/Muh_Sadam/status/919735004011249664
https://twitter.com/rj4gui4r/status/919973939429773312
Here’s the unfortunate thing
Candlelit vigils to protest a rape
While cities burned to protect the rapist
" #MeToo " roared the collective voice
While the perpetrator sits in silence
Never admitting that "I too" am the cause— Ujwala Menon (@UjwalaMenon) October 17, 2017
Action plan
Men,
Don't say you have a mother, a sister, a daughter…
Say you have a father, a brother, a son who can do better.
We all can.#MeToo
— Nick Jack Pappas (@pappiness) October 16, 2017
Do better.
