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pinky0926 posted...

The context would provide clues on what she's responding to.

Because it's true that there's usually someone who goes "yeah that sucks what happened to you but what about me?" in these conversations, and it doesn't need to be there.

i mean, honestly, the whole "now is not the time for your concerns" is pretty much exactly what was told to women in the past to silence them

whether a man airing his own experience of assault/harassment is valid really depends on the context. if it's a man seeing that people are coming forward and joining them, you really shouldn't be trying to silence him. if it's a man saying "Hey, *I* was hurt TOO!" on a woman's attempt to step forward, that's different

this seems like a reaction to the former, as if women as a gender own the hashtag trend and any men trying to join arms as fellow survivors are interlopers trying to talk over them

it screams of misplaced anger that alienates a host of potential allies

i mean really if in a month men tried to do their own version of this do you really think anyone would be paying attention? part of the motivation of joining the women's movement is people are more likely to notice and care.
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