@Mathias, you’re part of the problem. “Nobody talks about the strong women” is a very unhealthy mindset. You’re not a safe human for anyone to be around.

You can have thousands of opinions on a topic, bad or good, right or wrong.. but even though I haven't given you mine already, you are daring me in a slightly agressive way. So that's why is hard to have an opinion. And if you ask me, yeah, if somenone is offended or opposed toto a movement that tries to make a conciense out of people, then that person probably is their main target (sorry about the bad english)

@Mathias *cough cough* pre-1916 england *cough cough*

Sergio Bicerra, thank you for your thoughtful reply, but I disagree that MeToo is about making a conciense for that topic, we had a conciense for it back in the 90s already when the situation and role models for women was way better actually - because women were raised to be strong and not to be victims like MeToo tries to teach. MeToo was started by a person who then became victim to her own movement, it was about power, that person saw her chance to rise to the top that way and that was it, it never was about changing something to the better. And then it turned into a revenge movement, just blindly hate on men (and women with a different opinion) instead of trying to actually improve the situation. Because doing it right is hard, it requires thinking and effort. It's so much easier to just blame others and keep doing nothing, that is by the way victim culture and so many love it. And of course hardly anybody likes criticism, that is why it's so important to be confronted with it :)

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@Sakeena so tell me where in the MeToo movement the women who said no were mentioned as role models. There was one actress who spoke out and said she was in the same situation, refused to these things and yet built up a career, she got attacked by media and the crowd for allying with those "old withe men" and being a part of the problem just like you tell me that I'm a part of the problem because I refuse to join a lnych mob, politicians that did nothing wrong were taken out just because they were accused, CEOs fell just because of the accusation, no proof was needed it was enough to accuse anybody and he was done. Our whole justice system that generations fought and died for was annihilated by that movement, so if you think turning the clock back 1000 years is a good idea yes then I'm part of the problem but then I happily want to be the problem for people like you.

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Well society didn't force these people to stay silent, it's hardly ever that society forces and individual to something. So the statement ist wrong in the first place. But individuals choose out of various reasons to behave the way they do and it's so much easier to blame somebody else for ones own decisions. Nobody talks about those strong women who said no to these people and yet built up a good life and career, that are the real role models. People that show that if you stay true to yourself and work hard you reach your goals. MeToo turned into a witchhunt where everybody loses, it was used for a shift of power without the need to change anything.

Mathias, there are women who wrongly accuse men of sexual misconduct (usually it's "revenge"), however, they are only a tiny fraction of real victims.

I think that Stille20 is talking about things less than assault and less, even, than harassment. e.g. lots of men used to think that whistling at a woman was a compliment, and they are learning more that it's not. People can make mistakes and learn to be better, and we should all recognize that that's difficult or else risk failing to see our own faults.

Well said!!

I want to point out the "Not all sexism/racism is malicious or violent" part, I may have misunderstood, but sexism/racism is malicious and harmful.