Perhaps with enough publicity and public shame, perhaps there can be change on how women are treated in all aspects of their lives, in the home ….in the workplace ….in the public markets …walking to the bus stop ….taking a plane.. going to the doctor’s office…. The arenas for abuse have been multiple. And it’s only one aspect of abuse that women have to put up with… have had to put up with… Because it looks like we’re not going to take it anymore…..maybe it’s about time for a change?? … Finally?.?
The hashtag caught fire over the weekend when actress Alyssa Milano tweeted a call-out to victims “so we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”
But the online movement didn’t start with Milano on Sunday. It started more than 10 years ago with activist Tarana Burke.
Burke is the program director for Brooklyn-based Girls for Gender Equity. Its goal is to empower young women of color.
But the seeds for the movement were planted earlier than that — in 1996, when Burke was a youth camp director.
After an all-girl bonding session, a young girl asked to speak to Burke privately.
“For the next several minutes this child … struggled to tell me about her ‘stepdaddy’ or rather her mother’s boyfriend who was doing all sorts of monstrous things to her developing body. … I was horrified by her words, the emotions welling inside of me ran the gamut, and I listened until I literally could not take it anymore … which turned out to be less than five minutes. Then, right in the middle of her sharing her pain with me, I cut her off and immediately directed her to another female counselor who could ‘help her better.’ "
Burke said she never forgot the look on the girl’s face.
“The shock of being rejected, the pain of opening a wound only to have it abruptly forced closed again — it was all on her face,” she wrote.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 6 years ago
Trump and Weinstein? Or Gingrich and Ailes? O’Reilly and Hannity?
Kip W over 6 years ago
Yes and yes. The women in the strip stand in for a lot more women than are shown. Likewise the pigs.
Sadandconfused9 over 6 years ago
Perhaps with enough publicity and public shame, perhaps there can be change on how women are treated in all aspects of their lives, in the home ….in the workplace ….in the public markets …walking to the bus stop ….taking a plane.. going to the doctor’s office…. The arenas for abuse have been multiple. And it’s only one aspect of abuse that women have to put up with… have had to put up with… Because it looks like we’re not going to take it anymore…..maybe it’s about time for a change?? … Finally?.?
Mr. Blawt over 6 years ago
I hope all the pigs are uncomfortable this is not the partisan issue some would make it.
Silly Season over 6 years ago
“Me Too”
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/us/me-too-tarana-burke-origin-trnd/index.html
The hashtag caught fire over the weekend when actress Alyssa Milano tweeted a call-out to victims “so we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”
But the online movement didn’t start with Milano on Sunday. It started more than 10 years ago with activist Tarana Burke.
Burke is the program director for Brooklyn-based Girls for Gender Equity. Its goal is to empower young women of color.
But the seeds for the movement were planted earlier than that — in 1996, when Burke was a youth camp director.
After an all-girl bonding session, a young girl asked to speak to Burke privately.
“For the next several minutes this child … struggled to tell me about her ‘stepdaddy’ or rather her mother’s boyfriend who was doing all sorts of monstrous things to her developing body. … I was horrified by her words, the emotions welling inside of me ran the gamut, and I listened until I literally could not take it anymore … which turned out to be less than five minutes. Then, right in the middle of her sharing her pain with me, I cut her off and immediately directed her to another female counselor who could ‘help her better.’ "
Burke said she never forgot the look on the girl’s face.
“The shock of being rejected, the pain of opening a wound only to have it abruptly forced closed again — it was all on her face,” she wrote.
donut reply over 6 years ago
It is probably not safe to say “Hi” to a woman anymore.