{"id":740,"date":"2017-12-21T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=740"},"modified":"2018-10-11T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:38:30","slug":"me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2017\/12\/me-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Me too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0099cc;font-size: small\"><strong>Image: <\/strong>\u00a9 Lila Mabiala<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Lila Mabiala<\/p>\n<p>Nothing can describe the recurring sinking in my stomach, or the invasion of shivers. My complete inability to understand whether I should like, send love, be sad or show anger; \u201cwow\u201d could never be a solution. Also difficult to express is the deep gratitude in feeling that this time, we\u2019re on a roll. Not all of us are marchers, or politicians, journalists, rappers, or have access to a platform from which to express ourselves. But what a lot of us do have in common is social media. And through this system we insist on calling perverse (which it is, but that can\u2019t overshadow the ways in which it is effective&#8230;!), we have managed to create a true wave. And what with? Two words. Two words to lend our voices to a cry which should never be quietened, let alone silenced.<\/p>\n<p>In only a few days, we have shone a light on a monster we love to ignore. And you know what, I\u2019d love to see how you go around ignoring us this time. The numbers are undeniable; you cannot argue provocation, drunkenness, na\u00efvet\u00e9, or any of the other \u201cexcuses\u201d you cower behind. May you be damned if you don\u2019t prick up your ears, ready to finally listen, or if you choose to deny the truth, again.<\/p>\n<p>More than the sinking feeling and the skin crawling, I\u2019ve been crying. Crying at a pain that\u2019s so normal, we never even bother mentioning it anymore. An injustice we should fight against together, but that we are all too tired to address, faced as we are with other unrelenting assaults to our integrity. When I see how many of us are involved, somehow, I feel even more helpless. If so many of us have been through this, how come it\u2019s still going on? But this, this feels like a new opening for this conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, here is a feminist wave, a current event, that makes the involvement of men obvious. Without the oppressing group gaining consciousness, it all stays the same. So when each of us says \u201cMe too\u201c, we are lending you our voices \u2013 so that you can join our ranks, stronger from our avowals \u2013 and be a part of this fight against a patriarchy that makes sexual harassment and assault part of the normal fabric of society. This is not normal. It\u2019s time we overthrew this system, all of us together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: \u00a9 Lila Mabiala Author: Lila Mabiala Nothing can describe the recurring sinking in my stomach, or the invasion of shivers. My complete inability to understand whether I should like, send love, be sad or show anger; \u201cwow\u201d could never be a solution. Also difficult to express is the deep gratitude in feeling that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-winter17","7":"tag-essays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}