some of the taboos against women coming forth and telling their stories.

Seeing that many women marching together (and walking with them) had a powerful affect on me, and I don't know that it's a huge coincidence that there is a tidal wave of personal stories coming out after this travesty of an election, where a sexual predator was elected right in front of our eyes and it seemed that a lot of men just yawned (of course, now we know why, they didn't want their own tales to be told).

I'm calling it the Hillary Effect.

once you get to some sort of critical mass, things will actually shift.

catalyst. So many women are seeing their own abuse played out on national television and in the highest offices in the land and are finally saying "enough!"

I was 17. He was over 50. Disgusting. Told my Dad. He took care of it.

I think we are still only seeing the tip of the iceberg with #MeToo . I keep hoping that the "sunlight is the best disinfectant" truism applies here as well.

The worst work environment for young women is the fast food industry. There is absolutely nothing to stand between the girls/women and a manager who does the work schedules. They have to acquiesce or leave but if their next job is at another McDonald's it will happen again.

50 and 17. That's almost a difference big enough that he could have had grandchildren the same age as you!

That's pretty disturbed behavior.

because dems dropped him like a hot potato and they kept Trump and the Weinstein story reminds people of Trump's crimes.

It really is a GOP problem but they don't care. Weiner sent pictures of his covered dick to people and he'll never see the light of day but Republicans vote them back in office (Vitter) or keep them on the payroll (Bill O) or speak of them wistfully (I admit I do that with Weiner but only in the sense that what he did was stupid, GOPers want to forgive.)

While I admit dems are often guilty of misconduct, assault even, I think it is the GOP that keeps the culture alive. They don't exactly protect women's rights and never have.

Most are at least as bad as the US ... and many are quite a bit worse. Practically an institution in certain parts of the middle east.

It's not a Hollywood problem or a liberal problem or a conservative problem.

It's a men problem:

Some places in the Middle East requiem women to be fully covered.

Pretending it's just our culture won't fix the problem.

I'm lucky in that while my biological dad treats women like second class citizens (not that he treats anybody else particularly well), I had both my mom after the divorce and my maternal grandmother to make sure I didn't turn out like my dad.

Rape isn't new. Like racism isn't new. Just out of the news.

And there are a lot of us burning with ‘we told you, we fucking told you so’ —especially to the “lighten up” assholes who think this is now a political gravy train instead of the stark reality of women’s lives.

This is a festering problem that's harmed half the world's population for thousands of years. It's called Patriarchy.

It's finally coming out in a new way, standing politically, IMO, on the shoulders of BLM and LGBQ fights to demand justice.

and it's about time.

It's a sort of "porn/rape culture," in which the objectification of all women, in all settings, is normalized. Sex is the great seller and entertainer. I think that is something that is made worse by the Internet and the constant availability of such materials. Once a person is objectified, they are no longer seen as independent human beings with the same rights as the objectifier. It also degrades our ability to sympathize with the objectified individual.

By saying this, I am not intending in any way to blame the victims. I am not passing judgment on all sexy materials or porn, although much of it has always portrayed objectifying sexual behavior.

I believe we need to teach both men and women that sex, like everything else in life, has an appropriate time and place and that it is wrong to speak of, treat, or see any human being as an object.

That doesn't make sex dirty, two consenting adults can do whatever they want, but men need to be taught that women should not be harmed, not have things done to them that they don't want, and be treated with respect in every single situation. I don't know that is happening anymore.

and women loved that book/movie.

pure drivel

It never was, in many cases. The only thing different now is people are talking about it.
For millennia it was just swept up under the rug.

But now as we decry it with our words, our culture and society implicitly encourages it with a tsunami of objectification.

and there is no sexual transgression.

weinstein was a democratic donor....ailes was working in the trump camp