All you need to know about #MeToo, a Twitter campaign against sexual harassment

Thanks to Harvey Weistein's deeds coming out in the open, women are now speaking up--louder than ever.

Sonaakshi Kohli Sonaakshi Kohli
अक्टूबर 16, 2017
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If you've been checking out your Twitter feed regularly since Monday, chances are that you have already come across several posts by women sharing their personal account of sexual harassment and assault on the social media platform. The striking commonality in these harrowing posts happens to the usage of two very simple terms: Me too.

Thanks to the American actress and producer Alyssa Milano, #MeToo is now a trend spreading like fire in the forest on social media.

It all began when Milano posted a screenshot of a friend's suggestion on her Twitter handle in the wake of several high-profile Hollywood actresses speaking openly against Hollywood producer (and letch) Harvey Weinstein's and his deeds of sexual assault.

The post suggested that if women wrote 'Me Too' as their status, people might get a sense of the magnitude of the problem.

What next? More than 30,000 women and a few men including famous Hollywood personalities like X-Men actress Anna Paquin, Debra Messing of Will & Grace and Laura Dreyfuss, who starred in Glee.

Now, this trend has caught on, so much so, that women across the world are coming out in the open and contributing to making the world see how big a problem sexual harassment is.

Back home, actress Mallika Dua, known for her comic streak and Varnika Kundu (known for the infamous Chandigarh stalking case) too shared their harrowing experiences.

And now, many Indian are posting about it in full swing,making us happier than ever.

 

Obviously, this campaign does little or may be nothing to stop the wrong-doers. However, we're glad that at least, the world is realizing how huge the matter is. And being the optimists that we are, we're seeing this as an encouragement for women to speak up on these incidents rather than staying silent. What do you think?

 

 

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