#metoo has been in the buzz. Be it the micro-blogging site Twitter or friendly networking site Facebook.
Talking about its origin, prominent public figure, Alyssa Milano, posted on twitter, urging all women who have been assaulted or harassed in the past, to write #metoo on Twitter. So, within ours an epidemic was seen, many women started using their Twitter handle to post #metoo and slowly it spread to Facebook as well.
Most importantly what was the need of it? Don't most of us know how much women have be exploited?
Well, I think there was a need, women are supposed to speak up on such issues, which they might have been facing and turning away from them so that there is no damage done to their social image or to their family's social image.
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Women need to speak it out and not be ashamed of it, as it was never their fault in whatever they have faced. They need to open up and tell the world that whatever is happening is not good and is not acceptable by them, turning a blind eye to such instances increase the defaulters courage to repeat such offence in future as well. There needs to be an end to all this, and I think this is the start of the end of all that women have been suffering.
Many women who used #metoo on the networking sites also described how they had been harassed, what this did was, it helped many other women to know that whatever they are considering and ignoring as a usual thing is not so, and is actually a form of harassment. Many defaulters have come to know that what they have been doing saying just for fun, isn't very cool and they should feel ashamed and guilty of whatever they have done.
Using the social media platform, it becomes easier for the women to commute their suffering and also their reach increases to such levels that the defaulters would be humiliated by what they have done.
So, will this epidemic of speaking out about your harassment continue and go to next level or will it end just in the form of hastags?
Well, let us see #whatisnext.
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