{"id":714,"date":"2017-12-21T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=714"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:46:16","slug":"me-too-moi-aussi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2017\/12\/me-too-moi-aussi\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Too \u2013 Moi Aussi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Image:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a9 Corey Heimlich<\/span><\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> Corey Heimlich<\/p>\n

When I say \u201cme too,\u201d it\u2019s not because I\u2019ve been sexually harassed or assaulted as the viral hashtag suggests. I say \u201cme too\u201d because I too participate in this patriarchy that has long been in need of a smackdown. I say \u201cme too\u201d in acknowledgement of the machismo that filters my world, in a myriad of ways that I don\u2019t even realize. I too am guilty, not in the Agent Orange \u201cgrab them by the p****\u201d kind of way, but by engaging in a society that silences and shames women after verbal and physical abuse. It is paramount that men are proactive in the fight for this fundamental human right, or we will never rewrite our \u201cherstory.\u201d Movements like \u201cMe too\u201d should not feel alienating to men\u2026it should not make men put their heads down in ignominy, but make us begin the long overdue rewiring of our brains and patriarchal social conditioning. It\u2019s like we\u2019re watching a 3D movie without the flimsy glasses.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t consider myself to be \u201clucky\u201d because I\u2019m a white male. Lucky isn\u2019t the right word to describe a person that receives undeserved privilege. It\u2019s more accurate to say that I have it\u00a0easy, when I consider that I could easily do nothing about this for the rest of my life without being bothered. I don\u2019t have to deal with the hardship of being\u00a0valued merely for my physical appearance. I won\u2019t feel muzzled and ashamed because I was raped or groped, and my boss won\u2019t make inappropriate sexual advances on me at work. White men and all men are not \u201clucky,\u201d and they should not have it \u201ceasy.\u201d For any meaningful, lasting change to happen, men will have to swallow the stubborn pride of masculinity and face the problem straight up.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Democracy Now!<\/a>,\u00a0Tarana Burke speaks about the \u201cMe Too\u201d movement she started some ten years ago:<\/p>\n

[\u2026]this movement is really about survivors talking to survivors, right? \u201cMe Too\u201d is about using the power of empathy to stomp out shame[\u2026]it\u2019s not a hashtag, right? It\u2019s not a moment. This is a movement.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an epidemic, pandemic even, right? If you applied the numbers around sexual violence to any communicable disease, the World Health Organization would shut it down[\u2026]But in actuality, it is that\u00a0pervasive. And so, we need to stop thinking about it in spurts, and think about it as something that we need to constantly work on.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is not the time to be quiet, like a dog with its tail between its legs, only to forget the lesson in due time. This is a time for men to recognize the severity of their actions and stop it from the ground up and on every front. Women participate in all kinds of social movements led by men, but why do some men feel uncomfortable with a Women\u2019s March or the Feminist movement? So, I say \u201cMe Too\u201d not because I\u2019m a survivor of abuse, but because I\u2019m open to have the most important conversation of our time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeet Tarana Burke, Activist Who Started \u201cMe Too\u201d Campaign to Ignite Conversation on Sexual Assault.\u201d\u00a0Democracy Now!, 17.10.2017. https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2017\/10\/17\/meet_tarana_burke_the_activist_who<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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