#MeToo founder Tarana Burke blasts the movement, calling it unrecognizable

[satam55]

Tarana Burke says women are being vilified and the movement is "being talked about as a vindictive plot against men".

The founder of MeToo has said the movement has become unrecognisable amid a media backlash that has framed it as a witch-hunt.

Tarana Burke founded MeToo more than a decade ago, in response to sexual violence that was endemic in her community.

The movement was built on years of organising with young black women in low-income communities, connecting survivors with resources, developing activists and creating a community of empathy and healing.

And when last year's surge in media attention transformed MeToo into a hashtag and a national movement - with millions speaking out to share their experiences - those foundations were tested.

"For survivors, we often have to hold the truth of our experience," Ms Burke told an audience in Palm Springs, California.

"But now we are all holding something, whether we want to or not."

Speaking as part of an event organised by TEDWomen, Ms Burke said that as the MeToo hashtag spread the media vilified women who spoke up.

"Suddenly, a movement to centre survivors of sexual violence is being talked about as a vindictive plot against men," she said.

She also warned that MeToo risked losing its original purpose.

When it began in 2006 it framed sexual violence as being about some people having power and privilege and others being vulnerable, and sought to dismantle that structural imbalance.

"We shape that imbalance by raising our voices against it in unison, by creating spaces that speak truth to power," she said.

"We owe future generations nothing less than a world free of sexual violence. I believe we can build that world."

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

well

white women took it over....

 

[DoomzdayzV]

nikkas risking a sex assault charge for Raekwon in a wig?? fukk this heffer

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

this dehumanisation of a black person just because they don’t look like the status quo is fukking appalling

breh don’t have kids. frfr

nikkas risking a sex assault charge for Raekwon in a wig?? fukk this heffer

 

[Brandeezy]

Rose, Olivia Munn & that pedo lady fukked it up for everyone else

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Her ugly ass got fukked over by white liberal feminuts she never should v of been fukking with in the first place.

You know damn well them white people were roasting her while they hijacked the movement and made millions then used it jam up Cosby and no one else.

Meanwhile this ugly ass taking about don't forget about me.

 

[MikeyC]

nikkas risking a sex assault charge for Raekwon in a wig?? fukk this heffer

 

[Mindfield333]

this dehumanisation of a black person just because they don’t look like the status quo is fukking appalling

breh don’t have kids. frfr

Breh low key made the case for the need for a me too.

 

[AlainLocke]

All good things will slowly become corrupted by reactionary forces and capitalism...

It's a law of nature regarding our society...

Nobody cares about sexual assault they just care about people losing their jobs...

Nobody cares about sexual assault...they just care about the reputations of men...

Nobody cares about sexual assault they just care about being potential perpetrators by their rapey actions...


No good deeds shall prosper in our current socio-political economic system...

 

[Gravity]

well

white women took it over....

No, she gave white women the reigns once they gave her a pat on the head.

Now years later, she’s finally realized that she’s been hustled and all the money went to the white women

 

[stave]

"She also warned that MeToo risked losing its original purpose."

it did that like a few weeks after it became a hashtag

it did that again when ESPN ran Michigan State stories all last year, because of Nassar, but also with foot on neck of football and basketball teams. Implying coaching changes needed to occur. Gave those victims a tennis bracelet at the Espys and then threw them all in the bushes


this happened with the slutwalk. When actual hoes decided they would take over an event for VICTIMS.


this is what toxic femininity looks like. it does nothing but scream for attention and ignore the actual problems women face

these are the hoes on Twitter whose posts often end up here in platinum thread
attempts


do not look at these mentally ill degenerate women as the majority. the loudest is often the smallest in number

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Ugly is ugly

Calling someone ugly is dehumanizing now?


STOP

 

[Gravity]

"She also warned that MeToo risked losing its original purpose."

it did that like a few weeks after it became a hashtag

it did that again when ESPN ran Michigan State stories all last year, because of Nassar, but also with foot on neck of football and basketball teams. Implying coaching changes needed to occur. Gave those victims a tennis bracelet at the Espys and then threw them all in the bushes


this happened with the slutwalk. When actual hoes decided they would take over an event for VICTIMS.


this is what toxic femininity looks like. it does nothing but scream for attention and ignore the actual problems women face

these are the hoes on Twitter whose posts often end up here in platinum thread
attempts


do not look at these mentally ill degenerate women as the majority. the loudest is often the smallest in number

So why don’t the majority of women call out these minority women? Face it, the majority of women are complicit with the bullshyt. A good percentage of men are too.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Her ugly ass got fukked over by white liberal feminuts she never should v of been fukking with in the first place.

You know damn well them white people were roasting her while they hijacked the movement and made millions then used it jam up Cosby and no one else.

Meanwhile this ugly ass taking about don't forget about me.

c.a.c alert

"She also warned that MeToo risked losing its original purpose."

it did that like a few weeks after it became a hashtag

it did that again when ESPN ran Michigan State stories all last year, because of Nassar, but also with foot on neck of football and basketball teams. Implying coaching changes needed to occur. Gave those victims a tennis bracelet at the Espys and then threw them all in the bushes


this happened with the slutwalk. When actual hoes decided they would take over an event for VICTIMS.


this is what toxic femininity looks like. it does nothing but scream for attention and ignore the actual problems women face

these are the hoes on Twitter whose posts often end up here in platinum thread
attempts


do not look at these mentally ill degenerate women as the majority. the loudest is often the smallest in number

very true

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

c.a.c alert





very true

Stop crying bytch