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2 days agoThank you for commenting, friend.
All of the talk of civil rights being America’s priority has fallen short in the face of our economic priorities and our proclivity to agitate for war.
We have designed a society where empathy is scarce. A society overworked and without the bandwidth for most to process how their actions impact people on the other side of the globe.
Sometimes you’ve gotta skip out on the bullshit to live life and learn for yourself. All of these increases in productivity, and yet we have less and less time to be human and stitch together our society.
Rapists being targeted first often occupy prominent cultural/economic positions and replacing them all in a big wave is expensive and and inefficient and creates chaos.
Not to mention that the chilling and balkanization of social networks in the wake of “drama” can lead to repeated crises of their own.
A metoo movement has good intentions by trying to get us to address our highly problematic sexual relations. It can be rather sexist (refuses to grapple with problematic women), and it often leaves behind a cratered and broken social environment that is a breeding ground for misinformation, bigotry, abuse, ostracism, and violence.
A metoo movement responds to our pervasive and severely problematic sexual norms by elevating them to a crisis level. The crisis causes action to take place, which is seen to some as a relief because finally something is being done! But this crisis mentality is punitive, destructive, and only serves to exacerbate the root causes of sexual misconduct.
So, yeah. A metoo movement is absolutely a crisis caused by poor sexual norms bubbling up into a problem with serious impacts and wide reach across a society.