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Men Respond To #MeToo With #HowIWillChange, And Every Woman Should See It
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Actress Alyssa Milano has started the #MeToo social media campaign, showing women they aren't the only individuals facing sexual assault and harassment. The campaign went viral, generating thousands of responses, retweets, likes, giving a supreme sense of magnitude to the problem.
Australian journalist and screenwriter Benjamin Law has created the hashtag #HowIWillChange in response to Milano's effort. He used it as a tool to publicly announce his support and to commit to change against the culture of sexual violence.
The act of sharing devastating #MeToo stories on social media shook the public, highlighting how many women have had similar experiences. Eventually, as the flood of these messages continued, women started asking men what are they going to do to address the situation. Law's #HowIWillChange is just what everyone needed. It will give voice to all who want to stand up. "I will never blame a victim," one guy wrote. "I will keep showing my 3 sons and one grandson how to honor and respect women," said the other. Scroll down to read how men are getting involved and upvote your favorite pledges.
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On Sunday I asked my father when was the last time he catcalled a woman. He looked me dead in the eye and said never. I asked him why. He told me his father had told him to not do that to a woman. My father is just short of his 88th birthday. He has always been a beacon of integrity, honour and honesty and calling a spade a spade. He is not and was not perfect. He is one of the finest human beings I know. I love you dad. I thank you for being a father to this crazy daughter.
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I have taught my son how to respect women. He is only 15 and I am so proud of how he steps up daily to tell other teens to knock it off when they are cat calling, touching, teasing the young girls.
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I give them props. They're recognizing and trying. I say Good for Them.
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An easy tip for my fellow women as well: if you see someone being harassed, walk up to him/her while saying something like "hii it's been ages since i've seen you! How have you been?!" Take him/her by the arm and just walk away from the situation with that person. It seriously works, have done it a dozen times and the pervs never know how to react.
Agreed. I've done this to girls at bars countless times. Of course part of them wonders if they're going from the frying pan into the fire, but they'll gladly accept the first bit of charity and worry about the consequences later, haha. Bar-stars were never my thing, so at least from me they had nothing to worry about.
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or walk up to the pervs and tell them to back off.
Sure if that's an option, but in my eyes the priority is to get the person away from that situation safely. If you start a confrontation you don't always have that guarantee.
And risk a punch? No, better get the woman out of there.
Caitlyn McCracken - sometimes it's an option, sometimes it just isn't. Every situation has to be taken on it's own merit. More often than not, the above method is the safest option.
I just prefer to make it about the victim rather than the creep. Getting them to safety, if possible without making a scene because they might not want that - it might embarrass them (plenty of people hate calling attention to themselves). It might also make the creep come back to harass them later if they're petty.
sadly sometimes they turn violent.
Well I'm a woman and 100% would risk a punch to protect someone else, man or woman. But I know not everyone is like that
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It's always an option. Scream at them to back the hell off and embarrass them to make a scene. Then they will get anxious and leave. I don't know why so many people put up with it. I guess I would risk my safety to get some creeps away from someone else.
I really hope everyone remembers all this. The MeToo HowIWillChange, I hope it isn't forgotten because we are fighting harassment and this is a huge step to stop it. So I sincerely hope that this movement isn't forgotten.
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im sure it will disappear by next year..
This is honestly really cool to see, it's unfortunate that something like this took a while to happen, but I'm really glad it is
An easy tip for my fellow women as well: if you see someone being harassed, walk up to him/her while saying something like "hii it's been ages since i've seen you! How have you been?!" Take him/her by the arm and just walk away from the situation with that person. It seriously works, have done it a dozen times and the pervs never know how to react.
Agreed. I've done this to girls at bars countless times. Of course part of them wonders if they're going from the frying pan into the fire, but they'll gladly accept the first bit of charity and worry about the consequences later, haha. Bar-stars were never my thing, so at least from me they had nothing to worry about.
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or walk up to the pervs and tell them to back off.
Sure if that's an option, but in my eyes the priority is to get the person away from that situation safely. If you start a confrontation you don't always have that guarantee.
And risk a punch? No, better get the woman out of there.
Caitlyn McCracken - sometimes it's an option, sometimes it just isn't. Every situation has to be taken on it's own merit. More often than not, the above method is the safest option.
I just prefer to make it about the victim rather than the creep. Getting them to safety, if possible without making a scene because they might not want that - it might embarrass them (plenty of people hate calling attention to themselves). It might also make the creep come back to harass them later if they're petty.
sadly sometimes they turn violent.
Well I'm a woman and 100% would risk a punch to protect someone else, man or woman. But I know not everyone is like that
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
It's always an option. Scream at them to back the hell off and embarrass them to make a scene. Then they will get anxious and leave. I don't know why so many people put up with it. I guess I would risk my safety to get some creeps away from someone else.
I really hope everyone remembers all this. The MeToo HowIWillChange, I hope it isn't forgotten because we are fighting harassment and this is a huge step to stop it. So I sincerely hope that this movement isn't forgotten.
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im sure it will disappear by next year..
This is honestly really cool to see, it's unfortunate that something like this took a while to happen, but I'm really glad it is