The MeToo movement will do more bad than good.
This is correct.
How so?
Many reasons:
A: It's more focused on eradicating male behavior and masculinity than preventing sexual harassment and assault. Even things as simple as calling a woman sexy, are looked as sexual harassment.
B: Because of above, it isn't actually doing anything against real sexual harassment, and victims cases are largely ignored by a bunch of rich Hollywood women that are more focused on being angry at not being treated like the royal princesses they are. Take this persons post as example:
The metoo movement is mostly about privileged, powerful, wealthy women getting in on the ‘I’m a victim too! Me too!’ Bandwagon.
The ordinary women who are victims of rape are not “omg me too ##”... their stories are all uniquely terrifying, traumatic, and largely ignored.
It just goes to show that the metoo movement is disconnected from reality, and rather, centered in the twitter and facebook bubble.
The thing is, (A) is by definition sexual harassment if it is unwanted.
#MeToo has the complicated problem of going against the grain of American thought that has objectified women for generations. Our culture has led us to think about sexuality in a mindset of gratification, and then, later, turns around condemns acting upon it with other people. It's no wonder most Millennials are alone.
There's also a problem in which excessively vilifying a small wrong, like the interaction in (A) makes us unable to admit, discuss, and repent of it.
Yet, at the same time, I can't say I think the MeToo movement is necessarily a bad thing. Ultimately more damage is generally done by covering up wrongs than by revealing them.
