The end of MeToo

Patriarchy wins!! flawless victory

Me too has been around long before Cosby, also this #metoo started with Weinstein and not Cosby. As long as there are victims there will be a Me Too.

You believe that there is/was no culture of sexual harassment going unreported and prosecuted and that no women were or are intimidated and coerced and paid off by movie industry figures?

Hollyweird is all good now? Or was it ever bad?

Victims of assault should always be heard but not the way metoo was doing it. If any one group is always deemed automatically in the right then everyone else is vulnerable .

It's like a random religion, kinda. Such as Scientology, for example. That specific form of stupid may not have been around for long and may die off sooner than later. But it doesn't matter. Once it's gone, the irrational cognitive machinery that causes something like that to arise in the first place will still exist, resulting in yet another religion taking its place. Another worshipping of something ridiculous that helps someone find purpose in their existence. As long as emotional reasoning and confirmation biases continue to triumph over critical thinking, this is a song that forever plays on loop. What's going on today, after all, is no different than what went on with the likes of Michael Jackson or Woody Allen in the early 90s. Or, heck, even Fatty Arbuckle in the 20s. It's only gotten worse due to social media causing baseless beliefs to spread and go viral more quickly than ever (pretty much the instant an accusation is made).

The news gets more attention when they have sensationalized stories with clear-cut villains, heroes, and victims (especially when the characters are famous). And they get even more attention when they report on something as early as humanly possible and take a hard stance (nevermind that this results in them popularizing ideas before enough time has passed for evidence of those ideas to come to light). So the media is always going to be inclined to prematurely burn someone at the stake, as that's what sells the best. And everyone reading about it will thus make their decisions prematurely (because that's what humans do), marrying into that belief, and then fighting tooth and nail to hold onto it regardless of what info comes out later.

I don't see the media stopping this any time soon. And I don't see everyone else suddenly adopting the "maybe I should withhold judgment until more evidence comes in" mindset. So even if the MeToo label is gone, the MeToo brain will continue to screw people over, in my opinion.

I thought it started with this case, the Standford swimmer who raped a drunk girl and got too light of a sentence.

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/ncaa/ex-stanford-swimmer-rapist-released-after-serving-half-his-term

his release has nothing to do with #metoo though. It was a due process problem.