MeToo has kicked up the dust of some collective sexual pain. Sexuality itself is at battle. The French backlash against the semantically sinister #BalanceTonPorc (Call out your pig) fears a wave of puritanism, which has sparked some nods and some outrage. The movement continues its nuanced conversation.
I was assaulted by a Hollywood director and, in the wake of Weinstein, I have put in an incident report with LAPD. NYPD and Beverly Hills PD have since opened up an investigation against my abuser. Since reporting the assault, I have become part of a group of women who banded together on Twitter. We have met several times on either conference calls or meet-ups in LA streamed to others in other parts of the country, to further our mission for a safer society for women.
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Referring to the open letter French feminists wrote to Le Monde, being part of the movement certainly does not make me into a perpetual victim. My assault is also not the worst thing that has happened to me. Excavating it, however, has opened up the vault on a range of sexual experiences where things happened that I did not want to happen.
Source : theguardian
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