#Metoo
Quotes about metoo
The #MeToo movement represents a powerful wave of courage and solidarity, echoing the voices of countless individuals who have experienced sexual harassment and assault. Originating as a simple yet profound hashtag, it has grown into a global phenomenon, shedding light on the pervasive nature of these issues across various sectors of society. The movement is not just about sharing stories; it is about reclaiming power, demanding accountability, and fostering a culture of respect and equality. People are drawn to quotes about #MeToo because they encapsulate the strength and resilience of those who have bravely come forward. These quotes serve as a reminder of the collective struggle and the ongoing fight for justice and change. They inspire empathy, provoke thought, and encourage dialogue, making them a vital part of the movement's narrative. In a world where silence has often been the norm, #MeToo quotes resonate deeply, offering both solace and a call to action for those who seek to understand and support the cause. Through these words, the movement continues to inspire and empower, reminding us all of the importance of standing together in the pursuit of a more equitable future.
Media markets, like all markets, are profoundly nihilistic. Clicks, likes and shares are a multi-denominational currency. As long as they accumulate, as long as visibility (and revenue) is gained, it does not matter why. In other words, the media using sexual violence as clickbait does not imply support for feminist goals.
In 2017, after the Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault scandal went viral, the #MeToo movement grew like wildfire. It triggered my trauma. Flashbacks of horrific injustice. Old memories resurfaced.
White feminist narcissism has no truck with the idea that we are anything but victims.
If #MeToo has made men feel vulnerable, panicked, unsure, and fearful as a result of women finally, collectively, saying "Enough!" so be it. If they wonder how their every word and action will be judged and used against them, Welcome to our world. If they feel that everything they do will reflect on other men and be misrepresented and misunderstood, take a seat. You are now honorary women.
Anywhere can be dangerous. Get yourself a vagina for a day, B, and then we can talk.
Deconstructed, I find its bits and pieces everywhere around me in the architecture of my social world. I find components of its violence in the sexism of your comments. I find it in the way you touch me without asking. I find it in the way you call that girl a whore. I find its bits and pieces of violence, the building blocks of sexual assault, in the psyches and vocabularies of my boyfriend, my professors, and my friends.
The response to naming and shaming is often what I call ‘institutional airbrushing’: neoliberal institutions and organisations obsessed with how things look rather than how they are merely remove the ‘blemish’ that has been exposed.
Political whiteness is the systematic privileging of bourgeois white women’s wounds at the expense of others. Its obsession with threat is both sexualised and racialised, because of the role of colonialism in co-constructing race and sexuality.
We want Harvey Weinstein in prison. We want Brock Turner to have a longer sentence. We want Judge Aquilina to sign Nassar’s death warrant. We rely on a third party to take these ‘bad men’ away, usually in the form of an institution or the state. And this White Knight or Angry Dad is patriarchy personified. This is how our outraged activism fails to dismantle the intersecting systems of heteropatriarchy and racial capitalism that produce sexual violence – and strengthens them instead.
Violence against women is a pivot for the intersecting systems of heteropatriarchy, racial capitalism and colonialism. It results from the tussle for material and emotional resources, between commodity production and the reproduction of human life.