Brent Budowsky: 300 powerful women in Hollywood have announced a new group called Time’s Up to lead a national campaign against the systematic sexual harassment of women from Hollywood to working-class communities across America.
Sexism
Sexism or gender discrimination may stem from the belief that a person of one sex is intrinsically superior to a person of the other. The articles in this category focus primarily on discrimination in employment but may contain pieces on discrimination in lending, housing and other vital areas of life.
The Ties That Bind Sexual Assault, Gender, and 21st-Century Capitalism
Harriet Fraad and Richard D. Wolff: The pervasiveness of sexual assault today reflects the combined effects of households’ feudal class structures and enterprises’ capitalist class structures.
Fighting Gurls: Women & Martial Arts
Caroline Heldman: Martial arts were made for women. While they may be dominated by men, women’s bodies are uniquely suited for fighting.
#MeToo in Our Schools? Hearing Black Girls in the Sexual Abuse Backlash
Sikivu Hutchinson and Ashunda Norris: The sexualization of black girls at very young ages contributes to an atmosphere where sexual violence against them is viewed as inconsequential. If black girls are stereotyped as “unrapeable”, then everyday sexual harassment is something that “they bring onto themselves”.
Punishment Sustains Patriarchy
Robert Koehler: We live in a deeply problematic and unfair world, but suddenly social awareness has solidified around the wrongness of sexual abuse, so much so that powerful men are feeling the sting of accountability for stupid and cruel behavior that until recently seemed consequence-free.
Broadening the Scope of Sexual Abuse
Tom Hall: What if we said that using government money to teach little children that girls are inferior, and that boys should be allowed to “have their way” with girls, IS sexual abuse?
The Origins of the #MeToo Movement
Caroline Heldman: Tarana Bruke coined the name in 1997, and Alyssa Milano popularized it via social media two decades later, but this is the fifth round of organized activism against harassment/violence in the United States.
The Politics of Sexual Assault
Steve Hochstadt: The national attention to victims of sexual abuse and punishing perpetrators is new, but it’s been a long time coming.
Objectifying Women Harms Everyone
Darlene Lancer: From an early age, many girls are objectified as objects for male attention and admiration. Their appearance becomes their primary value, rather than their internal worth and many other skills and attributes
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Tom Hastings: Even men of goodwill should take this opportunity to listen and learn, re-evaluate and rehabilitate, not make determinative rulings on increments of impropriety
Turning Me Too into We Too
Jamala Rogers: In the African American community, the silent nature of sexual violence is real. The stats are alarming yet Black women – even mothers of child victims – are less likely to report incidents than white women.
I Believe Franken’s Accusers Because He Groped Me, Too
Tina Dupuy: The Democratic Party needs to stand with women who have been harassed—and not defend the politicians who abused them.
Sexual Harassment: The Gender Chasm
John Peeler: One of the dwindling advantages of being old is that you remember a lot. I remember how behaviors that now qualify as sexual harassment were taken for granted in many workplaces.
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