The Silent Battle of #MeToo
“I’ve been silent because I don’t have the fire to fight this battle – the battle where we are sidestepping the stories and investing energies in name calling and revenge instead. I’m not going to spend time in demeaning a whole class of citizens and generalizing misdemeanor. I can’t. Because they exist out of reach amongst us masked as people we know and love, or as those acquaintances that help you with your daily chores, or as those background actors in your life that exist but you never remember their names or faces. And this storm by itself will not move a whisker unless we all introspect and call for a higher order of morality in behavior from each other.
It’s not about who did what to whom. It’s about who did what they did and why. At the end of the day, aren’t we all responsible in some way or the other? Because we as society, created these monsters. You are a part of the problem. And I can’t ever let myself forget that. What about you?”
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