#MeToo

October 20, 2017

#MeToo, two simple words that have taken over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Actress, Alyssa Milano, suggested women write ‘Me Too’ if they’d been a victim of sexual assault or harassment – “if all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me Too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem” she tweeted.  Women listened. Within hours, #MeToo tweets and posts appeared in droves. The two-word rally cry for women quickly became the top trend nationwide on Twitter. Men also expressed their continuous support and effort to stop this. Comedian Nick Jack wrote, “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.” Twitter specifically helped the #MeToo movement by promoting it on their Moments, the social channel’s platform of curated stories. The social platform said that it was proud to empower and support all the voices on their platform and it was honored to share their stories. The #MeToo movement is not the first campaign to use social media to talk about abuse against women (and men). We saw #YesAllWomen in 2014 and #EverydaySexism in 2012. With the tens of thousands of people replying to this message, hopefully, this a wake-up call for us all.

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