Is it too much to hope that the revelations about Harvey Weinstein – and the rage they believe unleashed – will bring about a shift in the culture?Me too may be another hashtag. With good intentions. But this time it is showing the ubiquity of sexual assault. “whether all women who believe been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status,we might give everyone a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” said the actor Alyssa Milano. Well, now it’s there all over social media whether you choose to see it. Women saying “me too”, and often describing their first sexual assault,some when they were not yet 12.
The experience of sexual harassment is not a one-off; it is ongoing – as I wrote last week. It’s the backdrop to many women’s lives. We are numbed by it because to mediate about it all the time would immobilise us.
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Source: guardian.co.uk