* So we have finally reached a turning point when it comes to calling out sexual harassment in America. It's a welcome thing, but clearly it has come too late. And forgive me if am not convinced that this is a watershed moment, after all we have been down this road many times before.
Had the #MeToo movement been in effect about 27 years ago, maybe there would be no Justice Clarence Thomas sitting in the Supreme Court today. No one believed Anita Hill then, and Thomas used the race card to escape the reality of his transgressions.
Poor Anita Hill must be wondering to herself: where was the #MeToo movement when I needed it?
Fast forward to 2017, and we are at a place in time where it seems that every day another woman comes forward to tell her story about being sexually assaulted, harassed, or abused by a male in a position of power.
There have been so many of late, that it has gotten hard for us to keep up. They are calling it the Weinstein effect, and powerful men from New York to Hollywood are shaking in their boots. It might just shake up a senate race in Alabama, because the candidate who was leading in the race is "allegedly" a sexual pedophile who has a predilection for underaged girls. It might also cause a sitting senator to have to resign his seat depending on where an investigation by his colleagues lead.
One person who has escaped the scrutiny is the man who should be scrutinized the most: the sitting president of the United States. He is a man who was accused by at least 15 women of sexual assault. He is a man who admitted on tape to assaulting women. He is also a man who has a history of publicly insulting women in the most misogynistic manner, and yet there he sits in the White House with no shame ----or fear of being called out for his reprehensible and possibly criminal behavior.
The president himself has weighed in on all of this with an unbelievable tweet condemning Al Franken for being a hypocrite (talk about living in a glass house and throwing stones). He just couldn't help himself, and now folks are reminded what a scumbag some of them held their noses and voted for.
I know of a few women who I am sure didn't vote for him. Ubet Ninni Laaksonen ,Jessica, Drake Karena Virginia, Cathy Heller, Summer Zervos, Kristin Anderson, Jessica Leeds, Rachel Crook, Mindy McGillivray, Natasha Stoynoff, Jennifer Murphy, Cassandra Searles, Temple Taggart McDowell,and Jill Harth.
I am sure there are others, let's hope that the #MeToo movement gives them the courage to speak out as well.
*Pic from democracynow.org
Had the #MeToo movement been in effect about 27 years ago, maybe there would be no Justice Clarence Thomas sitting in the Supreme Court today. No one believed Anita Hill then, and Thomas used the race card to escape the reality of his transgressions.
Poor Anita Hill must be wondering to herself: where was the #MeToo movement when I needed it?
Fast forward to 2017, and we are at a place in time where it seems that every day another woman comes forward to tell her story about being sexually assaulted, harassed, or abused by a male in a position of power.
There have been so many of late, that it has gotten hard for us to keep up. They are calling it the Weinstein effect, and powerful men from New York to Hollywood are shaking in their boots. It might just shake up a senate race in Alabama, because the candidate who was leading in the race is "allegedly" a sexual pedophile who has a predilection for underaged girls. It might also cause a sitting senator to have to resign his seat depending on where an investigation by his colleagues lead.
One person who has escaped the scrutiny is the man who should be scrutinized the most: the sitting president of the United States. He is a man who was accused by at least 15 women of sexual assault. He is a man who admitted on tape to assaulting women. He is also a man who has a history of publicly insulting women in the most misogynistic manner, and yet there he sits in the White House with no shame ----or fear of being called out for his reprehensible and possibly criminal behavior.
The president himself has weighed in on all of this with an unbelievable tweet condemning Al Franken for being a hypocrite (talk about living in a glass house and throwing stones). He just couldn't help himself, and now folks are reminded what a scumbag some of them held their noses and voted for.
I know of a few women who I am sure didn't vote for him. Ubet Ninni Laaksonen ,Jessica, Drake Karena Virginia, Cathy Heller, Summer Zervos, Kristin Anderson, Jessica Leeds, Rachel Crook, Mindy McGillivray, Natasha Stoynoff, Jennifer Murphy, Cassandra Searles, Temple Taggart McDowell,and Jill Harth.
I am sure there are others, let's hope that the #MeToo movement gives them the courage to speak out as well.
*Pic from democracynow.org
