Recently, on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, the “Me Too” meme has been trending.
See: http://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/558165331/in-the-wake-of-harvey-weinstein-scandal-women-say-metoo
See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/the-movement-of-metoo/542979/
See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/technology/metoo-twitter-facebook.html
The “Me Too” meme is, in large part, a response to recent revelations of Hollywood Motion Picture/Television Producer Harvey Weinstein’s longtime sexual abuse of women, in close succession to, and conjunction with revelations of similar long-term abuse by late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, comedian Bill Cosby who is accused of chronic use of “date rape drugs“ on women, and former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY, 9) who plead guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor for “sexting” (sending sexually explicit images, aka “dick pics”) to a 15-year-old girl with whom he connected via Twitter.
Women decided to show the world how many of them have been victimized sexually.
Men have also been sexually abused – as adults and as children – just like women.
However, sexual abuse just happens to be more prevalent among women.
Sexual abuse is a crime, regardless of to whom it happens, regardless of age.
Any unwanted sexual behavior of an adult is a criminal act, and Read the rest of this entry »