Me Too
The “Me Too Movement,” was successful in detailing the experiences of individuals across the United States who had either and ever been assaulted or harassed. It prompted more people than ever in the United States to examine their interactions through the gaze of equity, weighing the power dynamics in past interactions with either the opposite sex or the same sex. Nonetheless, according to the National Institute of Health, in a college study with over two-thousand participants, there was no evidence of changes in the prevalence of sexual assault post-Me-Too. Had, then, the “Me too Movement failed”? Was its goal to simply to get women to catalogue their experiences over tea-time and late-night conversations with their closest confidants? Or was its goal to prompt people to not only remember, but then to testify and then to get retribution for either perceived or real harassment and assault? In this age of the guru or in this age of going viral, personality, one could argue, has ...