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Originally Posted by Makarov
It might be an even more powerful campaign if every man who was ever guilty of sexually harassing or even sexually assaulting a woman posted something like #ididit. I'm ashamed to admit that I've done it in the past.
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Thank you for this. I read something similar earlier today. I'm sure the knives will come out for me after I post this, but essentially the gist of the argument was, basically every woman you know is a "me too". Look at your Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc. And realize that for every "me too" there are also plenty of women who don't even feel comfortable disclosing a "me too" on social media about what happened to them.
So basically the message was, we all know someone who has been sexually harassed or assaulted. At what point can we change the conversation to say "we all know someone who has sexually harassed and assaulted women."
Because we all do. If so many of the women in your life have been harassed or assaulted, the logic just has to follow that in your circle of men friends, some of these guys are doing the harassing and the assaulting. But the focus of the conversation is still on the victims and not the perpetrators.