#MeToo Movement and the Reasons Behind Its Effect

 

Intending to show that the number of women who have been sexually abused is not inconsiderable, the #MeToo movement made its way as women said: “Me Too!”. And there are a few reasons behind this achievement. To begin with, as our age is surrounded by technology, it lays the groundwork for the #MeToo movement to spread all across the world. The fact that a person’s sharing may enable something to go over with a bang is displayed clearly as Phipps states that the #MeToo movement, founded by Tarana Burke in 2006, made a worldwide impact eleven years after its establishment when Alyssa Milano shared it as a hashtag on her Twitter account (2). Social media is a beneficial platform for those who want other people to hear their voices. There is a reason why so many people like that kind of stuff: they want to take action by making others who are suffering like themselves stop their silence too. Tarana Burke defines #MeToo as a “movement about giving people access to a healing journey” (“This is the ‘me too.’ Movement” 0:41 - 0:53). It is a “healing journey” because it gives people a sense of security and relief from the trauma originating from sexual violence. Secondly, this issue is related to women from every part of the world and walk of life, that is, the prevalence of it contributes to the expansion of its effect. Even in workplaces, there is sexual harassment or assault. For instance, over 70,000 women from various zones that consist of "the cultural industry, the financial sector, the legal profession, the health sector, and professional politics" were assembled in Sweden through the #MeToo movement because sexual violence caused appalling incidents for them (Thanem 99). It is clear that women are fed up with the injustice they face in their country and they want the perpetrators to pay for their damaging behaviors—both physical and psychological. Finally, people want to change what bothers their lives and this adjustment can have a huge effect on things to come because, in this manner, the future may have great things for them and the next generations. If we want to change something, we should go against these problems together, no matter how we look or act, the pain we have been enduring is the thing that connects us as Lee highlights, “We all have to act and participate to achieve the shift and change” (433). As long as women who are the victims of sexual abuse approach the matter from this kind of perspective, nothing can stop them on the way to their goals. All in all, surviving both bodily and mental violence brought lots of women together, and apparently, this created a common area for them to say enough is enough. Widespread use of media, their support for each other from different parts of the world, and their hope to lead a life without any of these troubles paved the way for the #MeToo movement to make other people aware of what must be silenced in fact.

 

Works-Cited

 

Lee, Bun-Hee. “#Me Too Movement; It Is Time That We All Act and Participate in Transformation.” Psychiatry Investigation, vol. 15, no. 5, May 2018, pp. 433, https://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2018.04.30.

 

Phipps, Alison. Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism. Manchester University Press, 2020.

 

Thanem, Torkild. “The End of Diversity?.” International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies,  vol. 1, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 97-107, doi:10.13169/intecritdivestud.1.1.0097.

 

“This is the ‘me too.’ Movement.” Youtube, uploaded by Me Too Movement, 10 Apr. 2018, https://youtu.be/ZF55ItXWjck.

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