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:
If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet. pic.twitter.com/k2oeCiUf9n
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) October 15, 2017
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
— LoveAndyC (@LoveAndyC) October 16, 2017
I saw that happened at a previous job to a coworker. She didnt say anything, but I did when I left shortly after.
— Shady Pines (@ricof85) October 16, 2017
I couldn't get anyone to write me a statement saying what they saw. Everyone was afraid for their jobs.
— LoveAndyC (@LoveAndyC) 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 Gard (@cassidygard) October 16, 2017
I was raped on Halloween 1992 in Golden, CO by a coworker. Today a run a national anti-violence nonprofit @NWCAVE. #MeToo @Alyssa_Milano
— Michelle Bart (@helpingheroespr) October 16, 2017
Story 6: Meiko
Story 7: Julie
#MeToo 6. The sleazy (frequently married) academics who assume that a young woman at an offshore conference must be in want of casual sex
— Julie Posetti (@julieposetti) October 17, 2017
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
back home in Indonesia, a police officer once grabbed my dick coz he thought he could turn me back into a straight guy I *never* was. #MeToo
— Adam MS
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Not sure if I’m allowed to join but there’s video out there of an old employer harassing me and yet no lawyer wanted to take my case. #MeToo
— RJ Aguiar (@DamnItRJ) October 16, 2017
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.
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