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This is the Twitter handle of Me Too Movement. Twitter has played a huge role in this movement because the hastag #metoo originated from here and millions of women shared their story, experience using the #metoo on Twitter. This Twitter page recognises those women and offer support to them and urge more women to come forward and share their stories. This page also posts the latest news and happenings across the globe on their handle. I admire and support the people behind this movement and would like more and more people to know about it.

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I found this picture on Instagram posted by a page and thought it's appropriate on this topic. It depicts that whatever a girl is wearing whether its a suit or a bikini, she is not asking for it. Instagram is a great way to share and view various pictures on almost every topic. I totally agree with what's in the picture. A lot of people accuse the girl and her clothes in many cases which is unfair. Dressing style of every individual is their own personal choice and no one should be judged on the basis of their clothes.

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Whatever you wear, wherever you go, yes means yes, and no means no! - - - #feminist #feminism #blacklivesmatter #sexualassault #bodypositive #hero #rapeculture #mentalhealth #survivor #consent #kavanaugh #loveyourself #whyididntreport #positivity #recovery #sexualabuse #ptsd #equality #domesticviolence #girlpower #gay #humanrights #pride #lgbt #lesbian #equality #motherhood #positive #woman #metoo #timesup

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146 Likes, 2 Comments - Advocate, survivor (@end.sexualassault) on Instagram: "Whatever you wear, wherever you go, yes means yes, and no means no! - - - #feminist #feminism..."

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This is a video from YouTube, another popular website. This video is about a survey conducted by Vox and Morning Consult. They asked a number of women various question regarding sexual harassment. Vox's overall result was that women are not as divided as it seems on the topic of #metoo. Even though some answered yes to some questions while some answered no, they somewhat had a similar perspective on the way they see this topic. Some people said in the video how women were considered inferior to men and I feel we can still see that in some ways.

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Women are not as divided on #MeToo as it may seem

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I got this Article from Quartz India which explains how it started and how events took place in the Metoo Movement of India. A few journalist gather all the information regarding this topic and are sharing it among the public on social media platforms. I like how people are coming forward and taking names without fearing the consequences. I feel- better late than never so its upto the survivors when and how to reveal their story and its applaudable when they do so because it takes a lot of courage. In the article, I agree with what Bhuyan and Chatterjee say about how people feel about opening up and how this movement can be taken further.

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Over the past week, #MeToo has outed some powerful men in the Indian media and entertainment industry over alleged sexual assault and harassment.

Several male journalists, standup comics, and movie personalities have either quit their senior positions or have been removed, even if temporarily, or lost lucrative deals.

Significantly, a handful of industry insiders are shepherding the snowballing movement.

These journalists, Anoo Bhuyan, Sandhya Menon, and Rituparna Chatterjee, among others, have been compiling accounts of harassment and coordinating resources for the survivors. They have also acted as conduits for the stories of women wary of speaking out-publishing their accounts anonymously. Now they are also organising legal help and trauma counselling for victims.

"It's very conflicting in an emotional sense, because we're journalists and journalists we know for some time have been named as predators," Chatterjee told Quartz.

First responders

India's #MeToo wave was sparked by Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta, who alleged in an interview a few weeks ago that actor Nana Patekar had harassed her during the filming of a song in 2008.

However, social media revelations didn't begin until Oct. 04, when writer Mahima Kukreja tweeted that comedian Utsav Chakraborty had sent her unsolicited pictures of his genitals. Soon, others were tweeting that he had behaved similarly with them. Since then, the micro-blogging website has seen an outpouring of stories-often with screenshot evidence-from women harassed by a slew of well-known personalities.

Heads began to roll.

On Oct. 08, comedy collective All India Bakchod (AIB) co-founders Tanmay Bhat and Gursimran Khamba stepped away following allegations of omission and commission on their part. Senior journalist KR Sreenivas of The Times of India was sent on administrative leave after a bunch of colleagues accused him of gross sexual misbehaviour. A Hindustan Times editor, Prashant Jha, stepped down following similar allegations.

Bhuyan and Menon, two of those coordinating #MeToo, were among the first to publicly call out their male colleagues.

A reporter with The Wire, Bhuyan tweeted on Oct. 05 that journalist Mayank Jain had made unsolicited advances toward her.

Jain resigned from his job at Business Standard four days later. "(MeToo) is really about figuring out how we as men and women-but certainly, especially as women-can serve other women better," Bhuyan told Quartz.

Menon, an independent writer and journalist, tweeted on Oct. 05 that Sreenivas had assaulted her in 2008 when she worked with him.

"This shame is not on me. There's no need for me to hide this."

Bhuyan and Menon were soon fielding direct messages from others with similar stories to tell. Menon alone has received about 135 such direct messages from women over the past week.

The most powerful messages, Bhuyan said, are the ones in which women are "for the first time having these lights go on in their head, saying, 'This shame is not on me. There's no need for me to hide this.'"

"Five years ago, if you'd asked me, hey, go and complain, I wouldn't even think twice about saying 'no one's going to believe me,'" Menon said. "Now, I'm going to think twice, and say, hey, I think I may be believed."

Pooling resources

Bhuyan, Chatterjee, and Menon, along with a handful of volunteer lawyers, have been compiling a list of those who could extend pro bono legal help to women who may face legal backlash from harassers.

"We're coordinating that behind the scenes-connecting survivors to lawyers," Chatterjee said.

The list of lawyers will be made public after it has been verified by the team collating it, who will ensure that each lawyer can be vouched for by at least one reference from a known party.

Besides, the Indian government's National Commission for Women told Menon that nothing could be done until the women had prepared written complaints. So now they are also helping the victims lodge formal complaints.

They are also compiling a list of therapists who have volunteered to treat trauma survivors.

One of the most difficult points, Chatterjee said, is that many are not willing or able to speak publicly yet. "The saddest part is most people still think that they need to be anonymous," she said. "Because for concrete action to happen you have to put (a) face to your accusation."

The way forward

Bhuyan said that since the legal system often fails women, the media's role is crucial.

"The fact is, the due process is broken," Bhuyan said, adding that media can help this by performing "due diligence" in reporting stories. "Due diligence can go a long way in plugging the holes in due process or responding to the brokenness of due process."

Going forward, the movement will have to widen its focus and include more people, Chatterjee said.

"We're only hearing from a very small fraction of women-of urban, elite, English-speaking women who are on social media," she said. "There is a vast number of women out there in India who are not part of this, who are not on social media...This is not going to be a MeToo movement unless every woman is heard."

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Meet the women powering India's #MeToo movement

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Over the past week, #MeToo has outed some powerful men in the Indian media and entertainment industry over alleged sexual assault and harassment. Several male journalists, standup comics, and movie personalities have either quit their senior positions or have been removed, even if temporarily, or lost lucrative deals.

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Saloni Chopra- an Indian actress, I was shocked and disturbed when she came out with her story on Medium. She wrote her heart out and explained in what manner she was sexually harassed. I have seen her work in a show I really liked and the men who she took names of, I have also seen their work. So, it was a shock for me to see what they did to her or said to her. Saloni wrote her experience and said she did the because she did not want to stay silent anymore and wants a change in the society. I totally agree with her perspective.

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I have been finding it really hard to put my thoughts into words. It's often confusing and confronting and difficult to address the abuse or the sexism you have faced, but haven't had the courage to publicly address for so long.

Like most other victims/survivors, I blamed myself for a long time.

The men I want to write about today are Sajid Khan, Zain Durrani, and Vikas Bahl.

Before I tell you what happened with me, I want people to remember that #metoo isn't about Hollywood or Bollywood - it's about you being able to speak up about people that have abused you, it's about sexism, it's about you having a voice and not being scared to address the people that think it's okay to misuse their power over you. It's about not blaming yourself.

Industries like these help because they are in the limelight. The media doesn't always want to cover it when it's your father or your uncle, and that's the harsh truth. But the fact that famous people are being named, is supposed to give you the courage to speak up. For years, girls have been trying to speak up - often, they're silenced. But today this movement is supposed to help you come out with your stories. Whether its a family member or a friend or a co worker or an ex lover or a current partner or just a one off date - tell someone you trust. Speak about the abuse. Don't let all the attention that's been given to the film industries take away from your story. Your story may not make it in the news, but people, all over this country are only trying to cover the stories of these famous people to give YOU the courage to speak. I, today, am talking about my story to remind YOU, that so can you.

Because I didn't know where to begin, and who to begin with, I'm going to begin right at the start and hope you stay till the end.

This goes back to 2011, when I had barely just moved to India properly and wanted to assist a director to learn more about film making, and my first ever experience, was the most awful experience of my life. Unfortunately, I was naive and had no idea how to handle it at the time. He was famous for his interview questions. He asks questions like 'do you masturbate?' and 'how many times a week?'... he also asked me if I'd ever been sexually abused, I said yes. Then he asked weird questions like if I would ever get a breast job, and talked about how sex is really a mental connection. Of course he went into a philosophical rant about our human bodies and it's desires and how sorry he felt for people who had to go through abuse (not the only man who's said this shit before they take advantage of you, it's quite common) by the end of the interview I was in tears, and I wasn't entirely sure why. I didn't know if it was because I felt somewhat uncomfortable around him, or because I'd opened up too much.
I got the job.

When I first started working for Sajid, he said I was a 'director's assistant' and not an 'assistant director' which apparently meant that I'd have to do his work directly. I was okay with that. Slowly, he started calling at really odd hours. If I didn't pick up I was told it didn't matter to him if I was shitting or showering or having sex, when he called - I had to answer. I was petrified. The calls started coming at 12 am and 2 am. He said the industry never sleeps and work happens at all hours... except he wasn't talking about work. He'd ask me what I'm wearing or what I ate. He'd ask me to send him my bikini photos because he needed to know how I looked if I wanted to become an actor.

Eventually, that turned into mental and emotional torture. For months, he mentally abused me and I would cry myself to sleep every night. He'd tell me I wasn't sexy enough to be an actress. I didn't have it in me, I didn't have the 'oomph' factor. I talked too much. I didn't sit properly. I wasn't alluring or girly enough. Said he wanted to take me under his wing and make me an actress. Cast me in his next movie, but only if I was prepared for it. A part of me wanted it so bad that I kept working for him, and excusing his behaviour whenever I could. He'd say horrible, horrible things about his supposed girlfriend at the time, who also happened to be one of the kindest, nicest women I'd ever met in the industry. I wondered why she was with a man like that. He'd gloat about how he made her who she is today, and he could train me too. Then he'd go onto describe their sex life in ways I didn't need to know, and also remind me about his one vagina problem. He'd talk about his dick and how big it apparently is and his sexual needs. He would ask me to touch his dick and get irritated with me when I said I didn't want to. This one time, during a costume trial for a character in the movie he came in to see the girl in the outfit and asked her to lift her skirt and show her ass to him, she looked at me confused and I asked Sajid if it was necessary. She lifted her skirt and he started insulting her telling her she didn't have any breasts or any ass, how did she think she'd become an actress? Then he asked me to leave the room and let them talk, and I did. It made me sick, but I clearly hadn't had enough to quit.

This went on for a few months. The calls, the comments. He'd ask me to come stay over at his house and I'd find whatever excuse I could to not go. The 'I have to be on set at 8am' excuse didn't work because his response to that was 'you can come in late. I'm the director and ill ask someone else to do the job'. So I told him my mum didn't allow me to stay over at people's house.

One night, it got really ugly. I was so tired of the calls and the constant harassment, I asked him what he wanted from me. I told him that if this was just about sex then fine, I'd come over right now and fuck him but provided he backed off afterwards and stopped calling me every day. I was so tired of his behaviour that even my fear of him wasn't enough to shut me up.
He started yelling at me and claimed that I was so naive and stupid if I thought this was just about sex. This wasn't about sex, it was about me being his little bitch and doing everything he told me to do. He'd name directors that keep actresses at their homes for months and thats just how this works. He then said 'you think I want to fuck you? I have such a hot girlfriend, why would I fuck a girl like you thats not even sexy?' So I asked, almost pleading, what was it that he wanted from me? He said he wants me to do everything he tells me to. Stay with him. Maybe he'll ask me to touch myself in front of him, maybe he'll want to record it. He'll do things to me and give me orgasm and teach me the art of sex but maybe he won't actually put his dick inside me. Maybe he will. But it would be up to him what he wanted and if I thought casting couch was just about a one time sex then I was foolish. No one would cast me unless I was ready to be their 'keep'.
Frustrated, I asked him to fuck off and I hung up on him. That night I went and told my mother everything. She told me I should quit, or find a way to handle it, but whatever I chose to do, I should be strong enough for either.

The next time I went on set for shoot i was petrified of what he was going to do. But to my surprise, he acted like nothing had happened... for half a day. Then he called me to his 'directors cabin' and asked me to write an article for him for some newspaper that wanted to know his hobbies or more about him and his filthy self. I don't remember what the article was but I liked writing, and he knew i was good at it, so I took his laptop and started typing. I asked him questions and he answered them for me. We didn't talk about anything else, up until he pointed at the way I sat and snapped at me. 'Spread your legs when you sit!' I said I didn't want to. He started again about how I was so unattractive and there was nothing sexy about me. I wasn't even good enough to be an actress so how could he ever cast me. He could print a contract right now and make me sign it, but I just didn't have it in me. He said he was doing this all for ME, for MY GOOD. He tried to grab my hand and put it on his dick to show me that I didn't give him a boner. I shrugged it off and asked him to stop. He frantically started walking around the room telling me I was never going to have a future in this industry and no man would ever find me sexy and he should have a boner but he doesn't, he doesn't have a boner looking at me. And then, he pulled his pants down and showed me his dick as he kept yelling 'see? You don't even make me hard!'

That's when I threw his laptop and I walked out of the room. I was petrified and disgusted and I couldn't believe what had just happened to me. I couldn't work for this man anymore.

That night he called and told me to take a few days off, threatening to fire me. I said nothing to him.

Then a few days later he called me up and asked me to come back to work again, and thats when I told him I wouldn't work for him anymore. He threatened to end my non existing career and throw me out of this industry, and once again, i was scared, but I knew if I kept working for him I'd probably kill myself because I couldn't take the abuse every day, so I told him to end my career if thats what he wanted to do, but i was done.

Just like that, I was gone. No one on set wondered why I quit or what happened. Maybe he said I was fired, maybe he didn't. This isn't a story no one knows... I've told a lot of people about these incidents, and they usually laugh at the audacity the man had, or everyone just says 'thats Sajid khan for you, he's pulled off this shit with so many girls'. It was as though it's just... accepted and known by everyone and no one cares enough to do anything about it because clearly he was working with some pretty big stars. So I decided I'd just shut up, and forget about it. What was I going to do anyway? Fight against him? That thought made me laugh, even at the time. It took me years to get over the trauma he put me through. I was so scared around the people I worked with. And I'm sure he's done this to so many other girls, I just want them to know they're not alone. It's been 7 years, and it's about time I said it out loud.

2. Zain Durrani

Zain and I met in Delhi while I was working on Kick, and we went onto date for around one year. Through out that whole year he cheated, lied, and abused me. The worst part about that relationship was that he was the opposite in front of other people. Everyone considered me so, so lucky. I was dating a wonderful, hot man that treated me with so much love and respect in public. He talked about poverty and his eyes welled up when he saw poor children and he didn't believe in religious wars and was extremely well read. He wrote poetry for me and sang songs and called me Chanda. He'd look at me like he'd never looked at anyone and tell my mother she'd given birth to the most amazing woman he'd ever met and that he was going to marry me. She never had to worry about me ever again, I was his responsibility now. But a few months into that relationship, I thought I was going crazy. The man that everybody thought was the worlds most amazing boyfriend, was a completely different person when we were alone. I don't even remember the first time he ever hit me. Sometimes I think it happened at a halloween party in Bandra, when the management tried to kick him out. But then I think, it was in my bedroom one night? The memories of how it started are blur and painful to extents I cannot explain in words.

But the night I remember so well, was when he slapped me in the middle of a fight and I fell on the floor, and by the time I got up to understand what had happened, he slapped me again. My world fell apart. I couldn't understand why he did it. I asked him to leave, but he started crying and howling and said he couldn't breathe and had some sort of attack in a corner of my room and couldn't move... I got him some water, said he should go to sleep, and leave in the morning.

The abuse didn't end there. In fact, it got worse. At every fight, he would raise his hands. He would grab me and push me onto walls, he would suddenly get really angry and choke me. After every single incident of abuse, he would howl and stop breathing and 'faint' - by the time he woke up, he didn't know what had happened. He'd ask if he'd done something, and would call himself a monster and a horrible person. He would send me 10 page long emails referring to himself as a horrible human. He'd tell me he needed me, and he needed my help because without me he couldn't live and often, tell me I was bringing out a monster in him. He led me to believe this was all my fault. I was the reason he was hitting me. I was the problem, and him, the victim. I thought I had to fix this, and only I could. I mean, the world thought he was wonderful... so something must be wrong with me.

I stopped talking to all my friends and disconnected from everybody because I didn't have it within me to tell them what was happening. After all, I believed that this was all my fault. I hated myself. I was the girl that always said I would never put up with anyone's physical abuse. I'd ignorantly wonder why those women even stay? and here I was, in every woman's shoes who's ever been abused and then led into believing that it's her fault. That he did it, because he loves her.

Slowly, he started telling me he could never tell his family about me because I drank alcohol and I wore shorts and they would never accept me. I reminded him that he had a drinking problem himself, and he said that was different. I said I wouldn't control the things I wear, and he said none of my behaviour was acceptable for his family and this was never going to work out. He would tell me how he wanted to have threesomes and experiment, but also said that I couldn't do the same if I wanted. He was bisexual, which was fine, but also completely comfortable with hooking up with other men while we were still dating. He'd sleep with other people and tell me he had to do this for his career and how could I not understand that. Why was I trying to slow him down when he was going ahead in life. So I shut up, and I let him do what he wanted. This was just the overall dynamic of our relationship. Him making decisions he couldn't live with then telling me everything was my fault.

It wasn't until one time when we were in Rishikesh with his then best friend, who happens to also be a very close friend of mine, that someone else actually witnessed the abuse and I questioned what I had been living with. The three of us were travelling together and staying in a tent and that night, he got angry at me for saying something in front of the man who lights the bonfire and owns the tent and we got into a huge fight. He pushed me hard in front of our friend, and after I fell, dragged me across the floor. After which as always, he couldn't breathe and he fainted and forgot everything. His friend, who had known Zain since he was 10 years old, said he'd never had a fit or fainted like this in his life and told me he didn't believe any of it. Which for me was difficult to process at the time because I'd just put up with months of abuse, excusing it because I thought he maybe wouldn't remember... and that this was all my fault. But honestly, other than right after hitting me, he never fainted or lost his breath nor his memory.

That still wasn't the end. One of the last times he hit me, was again in front of his friend. We were drinking at his friend's house and we had a fight, as usual about something I said and why I had to be so vocal all the time. He came and grabbed me hard in the fight and pushed me on the wall. Every time he did that, I always froze. I was so, so scared of him. I didn't know at what moment he would get up and hit me, and then he would faint. So I said nothing, like always. He controlled his anger and said he didn't want to drink anymore and that he was going to sleep. 20 minutes later, I was really, really angry. I was pissed off that he thought he could hit me or push me around anytime he wanted to and for the first time I felt like this wasn't okay. So I walked into the bedroom where he was lying down but wasn't asleep, and I slapped him. He got up and he slapped me back hard and I fell on the floor, so he grabbed my hand while I was on the floor and dragged me till the door to throw me out. His friend came in the middle to stop him and he pushed him too. The other house mates came out and stopped him. The episode repeated. The crying. The not breathing anymore. The fainting. Forgetting everything he'd done. It was the most coward thing to do to run away from his actions, and I was foolish enough to have lived with it.

Soon after that night, we broke up. It took me almost a year more to actually tell people what had happened to me. I didn't tell the men I dated, I didn't tell most friends. I told no one the truth for far too long. I wanted to forget it all. Erase it from my memory, but I couldn't. I was depressed, and so ashamed of what happened, I still blamed myself. I had spent a year being slapped and abused and I didn't leave. I woke up with bruises every second day and struggled to hide them from the world. I blamed myself for staying too long. So after the break up, to get away from the pain I was feeling, I channelised all of that anger and hate into my writing and started talking about women, to women. Hoping that maybe I could save someone else from going through what I had gone through. I finally moved on.

Earlier this year, I found out that he had hit his current girlfriend, the one he dated after me (who chooses to stay anonymous and we who know her, have respected her choice). When I found out he had cheated on her and then hit her, I was furious. I was a stronger woman now. I knew what happened all those years ago wasn't my fault. But I always thought that if I am the only girl he's done this to, maybe it is was just me. Maybe I did bring out the worst in him, this 'monster' he keeps referring to. It was an awful thing to tell myself. When I found out he'd been hitting someone else, I was so ashamed of myself for what happened to her. I realised... that I never spoke up. I never warned her, I never spoke up about the abuse I went through, or who caused it, and maybe if I had, I could've stopped it from happening to her and other girls. So I wrote about it here without actually naming him, and Onir, his director happened to read it and know exactly who I was talking about. He reached out to me and helped me address what happened and was so, so supportive. He made a statement and said he wouldn't work with such a man anymore. Some other people that worked with him called me up and showed support. I was relieved that someone wanted to stand by me through this. Someone believed that men like Zain, deserved to be named publicly. I didn't feel alone anymore.

When he found out I'd talked to Onir, he went and asked his friends to 'save his career' and wrote me a self serving email apologising for his behaviour in the past but never actually addressed what he had done. It was an essay in evasive writing and I felt further insulted that he couldn't even own up to what he'd put me through. And that, is exactly what I told him.

3. Vikas Bahl

Before I begin I want to address that while a lot of the behaviour women face isn't 'abuse' - it is absolutely sexist and needs to stop. I'm not really talking about this incident because his name is all over the media, but because the incident itself is something that is so, so fucking common in our industry. It happens every day, to so many women, and is sexist to the core. People need to realise that sexism and this kind of an abuse is not just physical but also verbal, emotional and always an abuse of power. It is shocking that we choose to live with such behaviour every day and accept it as normal in our industry.

A few years ago, at Anurag Kashyap's Holi party, I bumped into Vikas. It was a very overwhelming moment for me because he was one of my favourite directors. Anyone that's watched Queen and is a woman would say the same. It was an empowering film that an industry like ours desperately needed and I had so much respect for the man for making it. We started talking and I told him more about myself when he turns and says 'You're in the wrong profession. Go become an activist or something if you want to save women, why try to become an actress? I wouldn't hire an actress with so many opinions and things to say. Like shut up and just smile' I was shocked that I was hearing these words from a man I considered wonderful. I asked him why make a movie like Queen if this is what you really think? And he laughed and continued 'because you make the movies the world wants to see. It was all empowering and shit. But no one is going to hire you if you talk about Womens rights and have so many opinions. Who cares? Stand and look pretty, or do something else with your life. You don't need brains to be an actress!' I thanked him for his time and walked off before I lost my shit at the man. He continued to get extremely drunk that day and ended up in a fight with the girl he arrived with inside a locked room where they broke things and I heard him yelling and abusing and I left soon after. The way I looked at him had changed, forever.

My encounter with him wasn't sexual abuse, it wasn't assault, but it was definitely sexist - and it made a difference in my life. This shit happens every god damn day in our industry. I can't count the amount of times I've been told not to write the things I do if I want to be an actress because no one will hire me if I'm so vocal. 'act dumb, till you make it big' is the advice you get. 'just smile and look pretty'. It's exhausting how much we insult and abuse a woman's rights to work in this industry. No wonder in a lot of the biggest hits, the only job the actress has is to stand around and look hot. She's only the 'love interest' of every hero. That's her character description - and no one seems to have a problem with that.

There's so many people out here that aren't named or shamed because everyone is so scared of talking about it. Women are afraid they'll never get casted if they speak up. The 'I really like you, you're so talented. Lets create some amazing things' and 'i'm going to make you a star' eventually turns into 'I have feelings for you' which really means 'I want to fuck you' and when you deny them or say that you don't feel the same way or you aren't ready for it right now, you never hear from them again. THAT is an abuse of power. Fucking my director should not be part of the audition process. Neither should having feelings for him be. So many actresses have done it, and have had to do it to get where they are today and it saddens me that we look at the new girl on screen and say 'she would've fucked her way up' but you never look at the same male actors and directors and say 'he must've abused his power for sex with so many women'.

Even today, we're judging the women for doing something when they're not actually given a choice. If she had to sleep with someone despite her talent, if that was the only way she was given the role she had - the person casting and the person hiring is abusing their power.

I wish more women who have had to do it would speak up and say they had to do it, and it wasn't okay for that to be a necessity to become successful. But India obviously isn't ready for that yet. We'll judge her and slut shame her and tell her she wanted success so she slept around and now she's whining. We say 'oh she got famous by fucking and now wants to speak' - I don't understand. Shouldn't we be glad she wants to finally speak?! We don't give the women that have done it enough credibility to turn around and say 'yes I did and I shouldn't have had to' because we've already judged them for doing it instead of seeing what is really wrong with the society we live in. We love them and admire them, as long as they shut up and act like nothing happened.

Unfortunately, we still victim blame instead of addressing the power abuse.

But to everyone that judges the women who have chosen to speak up about their stories and says they're doing it for 'publicity' - you're clearly forgetting that the only publicity the girl is getting is negative publicity. There is no overnight fame or a successful career from speaking up about abuse. No girl signs a movie or gets awarded. People troll her, question her story, call her names, and more often than not, no one wants to work with her.

Anyway, this was my story and these were the people that I wanted to address from within the industry I work in, because I'm tired of being silent. It has been really hard for me to have relived these memories in public without thinking about how my family would feel but if I didn't today, I might never have. I can't preach what I don't practice. People will ask why I haven't filed any complaints, but as of now, I'm not looking to legally punish the people mentioned because in a society where this is so prevalent, I believe putting these individuals in jail for what they did to me won't eradicate the problem. This is about wanting a change. If I want something to come out of this, it's for more people to voice themselves without being afraid and remember - that you are not alone. We're here, and we believe you.

Saloni Chopra

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After all the years of silence, here's #metoo - Saloni Chopra - Medium

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I have been finding it really hard to put my thoughts into words. It's often confusing and confronting and difficult to address the abuse or the sexism you have faced, but haven't had the courage to publicly address for so long. Like most other victims/survivors, I blamed myself for a long time.

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I found this photo on Google from a site called Imgur. It shows a view of some people who feel that the women who are sharing their stories on social media platforms should rather go to the police station. I totally disagree with this point because I'm sure there's women out there who do want legal action and will take steps to do so but sharing it on social media and calling out names of the people will make them feel that they are not alone and afurther humiliate the accused. The people with this mindset do not know the power of social media, it can bring a person from 100 to 0 and vice versa overnight. Also, there's nothing wrong with sharing your story, whether you're doing it sitting at home with your friends or going online and sharing it with the world.

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I'm looking at you, people from the MeToo movement

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Annoyed Picard Meme: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU MAKING ALLEGATIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NOT TO THE POLICE?

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This is Ezra Miller's (an Hollywood actor) story which I found on the website of Gulf News. He shared his experience without giving out details about it. In the interview, without taking names he told us a little about his sexual misconduct experience. Also, he said what a lot of other Hollywood people have to say about it. They felt they had to endure sexual assault even though it was unacceptable. I agree with what he has to say that since these type of experiences are common in the film business, they are considered okay. In reality, they are totally unacceptable. Just because there's no check or control on them, this behaviour is tolerated. Like him, many other actors are speaking up but still a lot of them are not so there's still a long way to go.

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The actor the current state of the industry 'amazing for a lot of us to watch'

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Actor Ezra Miller says he had a #MeToo experience in Hollywood when he was underage.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Miller, 26, shared his story for the first time about being underage and given alcohol by a Hollywood producer and director, reports Daily Mail.

Miller didn't divulge the names of the men he claims plied him with wine and made suggestive comments.

"They gave me wine and I was underaged," Miller said as he explained his experience with the men.

He then described an awkward exchange with the men.

"They were like, 'Hey, want to be in our movie about gay revolution?' And I was like, 'No, you guys are monsters'," said the actor.

The New Jersey native didn't expand on the story past that but he did share his feelings about the post #MeToo world.

"It's a great [expletive] age of being like, 'You know what? That [expletive] unacceptable'," the actor said.

The Perks of Being A Wallflower star then called the current state of the industry "amazing for a lot of us to watch".

"We all knew it was unacceptable when we [expletive] survived it. That's what Hollywood is. I thought we all knew we were sex workers," he added.

The actor also touched on the Time's Up movement briefly when he suggested that powerful men don't know how bad they want to submit to a woman.

"I advise they do it immediately because they're [expletive] the world," the star said.

He will next be seen in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, opening in the UAE on November 15.

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Ezra Miller shares his #MeToo story in Hollywood

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The actor the current state of the industry 'amazing for a lot of us to watch' IANS Actor Ezra Miller says he had a #MeToo experience in Hollywood when he was underage. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Miller, 26, shared his story for the first time about being underage and given alcohol by a Hollywood producer and director, reports Daily Mail.

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This is an article on where Hollywood is Now after the #MeToo Movement which I got from USA Today. This article is about the current condition and after effects of Hollywood after a year of #MeToo Movement. This article covers the survey results taken by USA Today, the women who shared their stories, the accusations made my women and the repercussions, the political changes, the changes in Tv and Film sets, etc. The thing which was a surprise to me after reading this article was the result of a survey where 94% women said they have faced sexual harassment in the course of their careers. Again, this is highly upsetting and unacceptable and the people of Hollywood should take further action required.

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There's a consensus in Hollywood: Change is slow and it's coming, but the industry can't afford to let the gas run out. And it might.

A year ago, the #MeToo movement took flight as The New York Times and The New Yorker published stories cracking open the decades-long predation of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Since then, the producer has been banished from the glitterati's ranks, and more victims began speaking up about the horrors behind Hollywood's doors. (A New York judge will decide if a case against Weinstein involving assault and rape will move forward on Nov. 8; aside from civil suits he is also facing a civil discrimination case brought by the New York attorney general ).

With their stories, so too went the standing (and careers) of top executives and formerly revered figures like Charlie Rose, Louis C.K. and Kevin Spacey. Some cases have proved too old or flimsy to hold up in court; prosecutors rejected filing charges against stars including actors Ed Westwick and Anthony Anderson, while director Brett Ratner settled with one of his accusers, whom he sued for defamation, just this week.

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But jobs were lost by the likes of "Transparent" star Jeffrey Tambor, who was fired by Amazon following sexual harassment claims (he has denied the allegations), and "Today" show's Matt Lauer, who was dismissed after allegations rose against him. And just last week, Bill Cosby, whose accusations from more than 60 women mushroomed before #MeToo, went to state prison for drugging and molesting a woman.

But as the one-year anniversary approaches - and the country focuses on whether Christine Blasey Ford's emotional testimony will deter Judge Brett Kavanaugh's ascent to the Supreme Court - it begs the question: Is Hollywood's #MeToo movement in full flux or in danger of losing traction?

Much of that answer so far comes from the actual changes women are seeing off the red carpet. On the ground. In meetings. In auditions. On sets.

In February, a USA TODAY investigation found that 94% of women surveyed who worked in the entertainment industry said they had experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault over the course of their careers.

The 94 Percent: How common is sexual misconduct in Hollywood?

The 94 Percent: First-hand accounts from 8 Hollywood professionals hoping for change

It is, of course, futile to expect a dramatic change in the pervasive extent of workplace sexual abuse in a mere 365 days, in Hollywood or anywhere else in American life. The entertainment industry is 100 years old and functions the way it does - the "casting couch," for instance - for reasons that go beyond just the selfish or criminal behavior of some of the powerful men who have run it over the decades.

Moreover, quantifying change in a reliable and understandable way is tricky when dealing with a complicated multi-billion-dollar international industry that operates at the intersection between economic and artistic priorities.

Having said that, how has the industry fared, one year after #MeToo exploded, in its effort to put new protocols in place to prevent history from repeating itself?
Analyzing new pathways to reporting sexual harassment in Hollywood
First, in the past year more tools and pathways have become available to victims. Time's Up launched and raised $22 million for its Legal Defense Fund, administered by the National Women's Law Center.

Women in Film's Los Angeles chapter launched a new helpline in December, and has since received hundreds of calls from women who have experienced sexual abuse and harassment, according to executive director Kirsten Schaffer. They have referred roughly 100 women to pro-bono attorneys.

And just this week Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law in California that prohibits secret settlements and non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases. Beginning in 2019, a victim can choose to keep his or her name private, but the perpetrator's identity cannot be confidential.

But the law can only go so far. Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey established a task force of specially trained prosecutors after the Weinstein news broke to investigate allegations of sex crimes in the entertainment industry. To date, law enforcement agencies have referred 36 cases to the sex crimes unit but there has yet to be a criminal filing.

Lacey's spokesman Greg Risling says 10 cases were declined because they were outside the statute of limitations; open cases involve Weinstein, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal, Kevin Spacey, adult film star Ron Jeremy and producer David Guillod.

On the ground, most Hollywood studios and companies say they have retrained their staffs on harassment (with many including unconscious bias training). But what follows the (frequently pedantic) sessions is often laughter.

"The way people react when they walk out of those meetings, it's almost, like, funny," says Brittany Rostron, the founder of FACES, a nonprofit organization aimed at helping women develop their careers in the entertainment industry.

"It's not taken that seriously for the most part," says Rostron, who has worked on several studio-backed productions in the past year. "It seems more like a 'this is what we have to do now' and less 'we're trying to change the culture of the industry.' "

Some studios don't want to talk about how they address sexual harassment within their studio systems. Warner Bros. and Sony each issued statements to USA TODAY affirming their commitment to workplaces free of unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Disney, 21st Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios declined to comment or respond.

But unions have beefed up their support systems. A sampling:

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees says they've redoubled outreach efforts to inform members about available resources, and have seen an increase in reports of inappropriate workplace conduct to its hotline and representatives.

As of July 2017, prior to Weinstein hitting the news, the Directors Guild of America began including a provision for employers to provide sexual harassment training for all members.

The Producer's Guild of America now urges the practice of naming multiple, gender-diverse crew members on sets as points of contact for reporting harassment.

And the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists called for a ban on auditions and interviews in hotel rooms or residences unless a support peer is present. SAG-AFTRA is expected to work the proviso into their 2020 contracts.

More recently, SAG-AFTRA began to offer counseling services and scenario-specific guidance for members on how to avoid and/or address sexual harassment in the workplace.

The audition guideline "has had a powerful impact," says Gabrielle Carteris, SAG-AFTRA president. "I've heard directly from members that they are seeing a shift in industry norms. Our members are feeling more empowered to decline these types of meetings and value the ability to request a support peer."

But is it enough?

"It's awesome that unions are putting things in place, now it's just a matter of time of waiting to see them take effect," says Morgana McKenzie, a freelance camera operator who previously shared her story with USA TODAY of the daily harassment endured on set. "People are this way because of habitual behavior. So we can post as many posters and PSAs as we want, (but) the ultimate problem is getting fully formed and grown adults to break habits, and that's hard."
'There's still a real big price to pay for coming forward'
What Hollywood continues to lack, say experts, is a centralized system for identifying repeat offenders. Non-union employees and employees who work for smaller companies, some of which lack dedicated HR teams, remain vulnerable. And still, many people fear retaliation for speaking out. Being blackballed. The loss of the ability to pay their bills.

Terry Lawler, executive director of New York Women in Film & Television, says they've seen "an uptick in calls but not necessarily an uptick in legal action" on their partner hotline, managed by the Human Rights Commission. "There's still a real big price to pay for coming forward."

L.A.-based labor lawyer Genie Harrison, who represents a former Weinstein assistant and recently filed a John Doe case against Kevin Spacey, stresses that "every single" hotline caller with a harassment complaint should be referred to a lawyer, so as to understand "what the consequences are going to be if they choose not to take action within the statute of limitations."

The odds remain stacked against the women who come forward unless investigations are handled appropriately - which, in many cases, comes down to whether an organization brings in a third-party to investigate, says Angela Reddock-Wright, managing attorney of Reddock Law Group.

Reddock-Wright, who has seen a 25 percent increase in calls for investigations by Hollywood-related corporations and guilds, stresses that impartiality remains a major factor in investigations. That's especially the case when it comes to high-profile figures like Ryan Seacrest, who was cleared by an internal probe, or former CBS chief Les Moonves, pushed out after he was accused of sexual misconduct and retaliatory practices.

"The biggest lesson for companies in entertainment is to act quickly when they get the complaints," says Reddock-Wright. "Even with Les Moonves, they sat on it. You're supposed to bring in someone independent and you're not supposed to put any inhibitions on the investigation.That's going to be the next stage of the #MeToo movement -companies understanding they need to get on top of these complaints right away."
A new temperature on film and TV sets
Has behavior on the ground changed? That depends on who you ask.

Last month Julia Roberts acknowledged she was the wrong sort of starto speak out , given how seldom she dips back into the throes of the industry. "I can't say that I'm a credible witness because I don't really participate in the world enough," the Oscar winner told USA TODAY. "But I would say energetically I feel that people that felt they had to be silent don't feel that way anymore."

Talk to those in the trenches and it's clear there has been a shift, at least as far as representation goes.

Actress Megan Densmore, who came forward with her story of sexual assault in USA TODAY's investigation, says agents used to tell her: " 'Well, you're not blond enough and your boobs aren't big enough so you can dye your hair red and get a boob job,' " recalls the actress, who is also a professional body builder with short blond hair. "Now I look even more specific and unique look and I'm getting auditions."

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Densmore says that since the past spring she's auditioned for roles that weren't necessarily written for women. "I get a lot of auditions that were clearly written male that even sometimes have the pronouns adjusted," she says, noting "a slight open-mindedness," by those casting traditionally male parts, such as doctors or military personnel. They're "trying to find room (for more women), is what it feels like," she says.

And more women are being hired below the line.

"People are specifically reaching out and saying, 'I would really love to have more women on my team or in my department,' " as location scouts, production assistants and directors of photography, says Rostron, who shared her story of harassment by a college professor with USA TODAY earlier this year. "That is the real benefit of the MeToo movement."

A changed mood is affecting big projects, too. Keira Knightley will soon begin work on "Misbehavior," an intersectional feminist story she doesn't think would have been greenlit a year ago.

On the surface, everyone is noticing the optics, Knightley says. "We did a crew photo and somebody made a comment like, 'Oh, where are the 10 women we've got?' " recalls the two-time Oscar nominee. "People are actually looking around and going, 'This is really white and male.' And that's a change. Because I've never heard that, even though it was obvious before."

The spotlight has grown in the past year to push equality across the board, in pay and opportunity. Companies like NBC instituted Female Forward, which gives women a pipeline to directing its TV shows and HBO retroactively fixed gender-based pay disparities within their shows.

"I've definitely seen a commitment to hiring more women as directors and in other positions," says Lawler. But when it comes to #MeToo, "I think men are just being much more cautious, but I don't think there's an actual understanding of what needs to change culturally. Considering women to be lesser, not equal, is still there."
When women are the boss
But many could do without the snark.

"My experience of it so far has been a lot of lip service," says Tatiana Maslany, the Emmy-winning star of "Orphan Black." "I'm on set or I'm in a situation and somebody will be like, 'Oh, you can't do that anymore.' They'll say that in general and it seems like it's an affront as opposed to an actual internalized change."

When women are the boss, it still often only takes one misogynistic voice to poison the well, says Emmy-nominated director Kari Skogland of "The Handmaid's Tale."

A year into #MeToo, Skogland says she's less afraid of speaking up and being labeled hard to work with. Still, disrespect "can come from anywhere. I've found crews to be very respectful. I think it often comes from only one bad egg who has enough of a voice that it polarizes a situation. I'm very good now at identifying that voice and making sure that they understand we're equals and that I won't tolerate it."

Director/producer Ryan Murphy's sets now require 50 percent of women behind the camera in accordance with his Half Initiative. But the Emmy-nominated "American Horror Story" actress Adina Porter says when it comes to reception of male and female directors, "there's totally a difference."

"Sometimes I have seen women having to prove themselves to the crew," Porter says. "I love the crew and everything, but I have witnessed it. And I see her having to kind of take a breath and decide when she's going to speak up. ... I've seen women directors, their minds kind of going 'OK,' a little bit, like when I'm dealing with my kids. Like, ' OK, I'm going to choose to pick this fight but not that one.' "

It's why bystander engagement is so important, say experts.

"Even one person making an effort to contribute as best as they can to promoting a safe and respectful work environment has a positive impact," says Laura Palumbo, communication director at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. "We need for changes to be happening at all levels, at the policy level, but also with individuals that are seeing this as an opportunity to be a part of changing the workplace culture.
The numbers reported are still harrowing
The biggest imperative? Many say it's keeping a stadium-sized spotlight on #MeToo, because the numbers - about workplace sexual harassment and about the lack of women in power roles in Hollywood - are still sobering:

Nearly all of the women who responded to USA TODAY's survey said they have experienced some form of harassment or assault, often by an older individual in a position of power over the accuser. Worse, more than one-fifth of respondents (21%) say they have been forced to do something sexual at least once and 69% of women said they had been touched in a sexual way at work.

Recent studies mirror these results. A survey conducted by the Writers Guild of America West found 64 percent of women say they've faced sexual harassment at some point in their careers in film and TV. A 2018 study from Hiscox found 41 percent of female workers country-wide say that they've experienced harassment in the workplace.

"There have been times throughout the year where people have been over it, or tired of it or the (accused) men were going back to work," says Schaffer. "We can't get tired of it - the media, the culture. It's still happening. It's not over."
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#MeToo a year later: Where is Hollywood now? For some, it's still 'lip service'

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There's a consensus in Hollywood: Change is slow and it's coming, but the industry can't afford to let the gas run out. And it might. A year ago, the #MeToo movement took flight as The New York Times and The New Yorker published stories cracking open the decades-long predation of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

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This is an article on What Men Think about #MeToo, it was conducted by GQ who partnered with Glamour. They shared the results and their views about the results in this article. They asked questions regarding various topic on what they know about #metoo, what they feel about it, how it changed the ways of men, if it made them look back, what they think about consent in relationships, etc. After reading this article, I was a little happy about how some men feel they need to re-evaluate their past in order to move forward and how they understand what consent is and the need for consent in a relationship. But it was sad and disgusting to see that half of the men did not even know about what #metoo is or their knowledge about the same. I feel they need to wake up because they make up half of the population of this world and in order to bring a change in the society, they need to be serious about this issue.

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We partnered with Glamour on an exclusive survey of more than 1,000 men about #MeToo, and the results were eye-opening.

If you ask an American male between the ages of 18 and 55 a thoughtful, good-faith question about his perspective on the #MeToo movement, the Twitter-born hashtag that's shined a klieg light on widespread sexual harassment in the corridors of every industry, that man is likely, statistically speaking, to give you a blank stare. Because according to a survey conducted by Glamour and GQ, more than half of the men who responded have either never heard of #MeToo, or they know so little that they can't explain what it is.

The Glamour x GQ "Men on #MeToo" survey was administered by Toluna in April of 2018. It asked a series of multiple choice and write-in questions to 1,147 anonymous American men between the ages of 18 and 55 across a wide variety of geography, careers, incomes, and racial backgrounds.

Another statistic we couldn't ignore: 47 percent of Glamour x GQ survey respondents haven't discussed #MeToo. Ever. With anyone. In tandem with the oblivious men from above, the numbers lay bare a difficult truth: men, we need to get our heads in the game. The broader survey results reveal genuine worries ("I made a point of limiting my conversations with female coworkers to strictly business matters out of fear that that they would take a compliment the wrong way."), deep gaps in the political and cultural awareness of men, and areas where the social structures have failed (e.g., dismal sex education with limited coverage of consent). Some of the survey statistics require extra context; some only inspired more questions. As a whole, the responses made one thing clear: to make real progress on the subjects #MeToo tackles, particularly sexual harassment and consent, men are going to have to catch up. And in order to do that, they-we-have to join the conversation.

So we did just that. GQ editor Benjy Hansen-Bundy and Glamour editor Justine Harman sifted through the survey data and spoke honestly about what they saw. Here are the findings we found most interesting and the dialogue it sparked between Benjy and Justine. (You can read Glamour's response to the survey here.)

Men Are Scared of #MeToo

GLAMOUR: This is what we've been seeing in our personal lives too: The term #MeToo makes men want to run and hide. Why is it so scary?

GQ: I think the lesson a lot of guys learned very quickly during all the #MeToo revelations, myself included, was that this moment called for men to basically shut up and listen for a while. Now it feels like we're in a new phase-it's time to start the conversation about how we fix the big structural problems. I mean, a guy who groped women still got elected president. So everyone has to participate. But I think guys are still a little wary. One guy wrote, "The movement doesn't come across as inclusive to men." To be honest, I feel some of that trepidation too.

The Many Ways #MeToo Hasn't Changed Men

There were survey respondents who realized that their behavior needed to be re-examined (and there were men who completely retreated from the dating game out of paranoia). As one #MeToo-influenced guy wrote, "I am more aware that everything must be done under the strictest consent, and in my case, for example, do not assume that my wife has a sexual obligation with me." Yet, that number, it's so low! The 35 percent improves to 59 percent if you discount the oblivious men mentioned above-self examination isn't on the table for the men who don't know #MeToo from R2-D2.

This question-Has your approach to dating changed in response to the #MeToo movement?-and the responses it garnered also exemplified why raw survey stats can be messy. Here's a quick sample of "no" responses:
"No. I think I had managed to recognize and change some of my shittier teenage/early college attitudes surrounding sex and dating well before #MeToo hit. Which is not to say I think I ever did anything approaching sexual assault in my youth, but I probably could have been more thoughtful and kind." "No. Because I'm married." "No. Because I am a conservative and we know how to treat females." "No. Because I am a stand up person who treats women correctly." "No. Because I don't let fads inform my decisions."
Point being: two men could answer "no" for radically opposing reasons. A large number of survey respondents (mistakenly) declared themselves exempt just for being in a relationship. Even the self-declared "good guys" seemed to come from two different hemispheres. On one side, men who consider themselves enlightened allies of the Dan-Savage-listening, Roxanne-Gay-retweeting variety. And on the other, men like Mr. Conservatives <3 Females and Mr. Fads, who find the #MeToo movement to be irrelevant and condescending.

Still, we're choosing to find some glass-half-full hope in the fact that 59 percent of the men who knew about the #MeToo movement and its mission took the opportunity to examine how they approach sex and dating. We need that majority to carry on the conversation.

The Surprising Portrait of Men Who Understand #MeToo

Think of these as #MeToo police sketches-loose interpretations based on a few key pieces of respondent info from the Glamour x GQ survey. Southerners on the whole showed the least #MeToo awareness; execs were, on average, more oblivious than men with lower-paying jobs, particularly those in manager-type roles where the rules of working with female subordinates might inspire more trepidation. A college education didn't seem to have an effect on awareness whatsoever.

Millennial Men Are Looking Back to Move Forward

GLAMOUR: Looking back on my own past, I'll admit that I wasn't particularly "woke" in college; I vied for male attention in an almost competitive way. I never called out bad behavior, and I didn't look out for my girlfriends the way I would now. Did the movement make you revisit your own experiences?

GQ: Of course. I was in a frat in college, and it wasn't a temple of progressive politics. For a lot of guys, #MeToo has been a humbling moment because they didn't realize how extensive sexual harassment was in our society. There's an interesting distinction between my peer group-guys 18 to 34 years old-and older men: 51 percent of millennials went back to reevaluate their actions, but in the 35-to-55 group, only 28 percent did. That's not great, but this still strikes me as a positive trend, since it's this next generation that will define the future of harassment and consent. Thankfully, millennials seem to know their shit. Or at least are more willing to figure it out.

GLAMOUR: About half of this younger age group said they're worried about being wrongly accused of sexual harassment in the workplace. But the group who had heard of #MeToo were less worried, which says to me the movement is helpful in both promoting awareness and modifying behavior.

GQ: I think fear might actually be a good thing; it's part of a course correction. The data also shows that younger men are more likely to say Me Too will improve workplace equality. Which I think shows that the movement is educating guys on a broader cultural level.

Men Are Confused About Consent in Relationships

This is one of the more demoralizing results from the survey-a glimpse into a deep vein of sexual entitlement among men. Are the majority of us this retrograde in our definition of what's expected in a relationship? We desperately want to believe that perhaps there's a mis-interpretation of the survey question happening here, one borne out of a belief that a healthy relationship entails a healthy sexual dynamic. Because we'd also like to believe that 59 percent of men aren't showcasing a predilection for ownership over a partner's body.

Since this was a degree-of-agreement question, we don't have the benefit of knowing exactly what the survey respondents were thinking. But we do have advice for men who wonder whether sex in a relationship is guaranteed. From Lauren Larson, who answered eight tough questions from men about consent:

"In some ways consent does become more implicit the longer you're in a relationship. If you've been together for a while, you've probably become more familiar with each other's boundaries and non-verbal cues. On the other hand, when you've been with someone for long time, you may have to work even harder to make sure they feel comfortable saying "no.'"

Most Men Are Ready to Talk About Consent

GQ: Well, at the very least this shows that most men are not horrible monsters.

GLAMOUR: But I feel like if I were at a sports bar or a frat, the way I would be treated by men would be different than what our findings suggest. Especially since 50 percent of guys ages 18 to 34 agreed with this statement: "If your partner is willing to kiss you, they must be willing to do other sexual acts." That means Aziz Ansari-type scenarios, where the man and the woman are having very different experiences during the same sexual encounter, will continue.

GQ: I wish I could say I thought we'd see an immediate reduction in those Aziz-type situations, but I think it's going to take time. These stats probably speak to the broader fucked-up-ness of our sex education in this country. I'd also say that the discussion seems to be missing a broader examination of human sexuality so far. For example, when we asked, "How do you define the boundary between unwanted but harmless advances and harassment?" there was this pervading sense of defeat in the answers. One guy said, "I feel that there is no line anymore, so you better just keep to yourself." For as long as Western literature has covered courtship, it's almost always the man in pursuit of the woman, with varying degrees of doggedness.

GLAMOUR: When one guy said, "The principle that I employ is that everyone gets one free pass. When you put your interest out, regardless of how overt or covert the advance was, that is all that you are entitled to," I had to pause. Back when I was single, I would always turn down the first inquiry-a guy had to try at least twice to prove he was actually interested. It was all part of the game.

GQ: That's what I mean. It can feel like there's some cognitive dissonance between what is by-the-books acceptable and what actually works between two people. It made me nervous to say that out loud. We're definitely opening a can of worms.

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What 1,147 Men Think About #MeToo: A Glamour x GQ Survey

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We partnered with Glamour on an exclusive survey of more than 1,000 men about #MeToo, and the results were eye-opening. If you ask an American male between the ages of 18 and 55 a thoughtful, good-faith question about his perspective on the #MeToo movement, the Twitter-born hashtag that's shined a klieg light on widespread sexual harassment in the corridors of every industry, that man is likely, statistically speaking, to give you a blank stare.

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I found this photo on Facebook on the page of Statistic Canada. Its about the increase in police cases reported of sexual assault after the #MeToo Movement. They have an article too on the same. They explained how the police reports of sexual assaults peaked after #MeToo Movement, how 9/10 were females, the daily average, the various types of cases reported and overall change in Canada as well as the individual provinces. I was mildly surprised and somewhat pleased after I saw this because its a good thing that people have been affected by this Movement and are taking an initiative to come forward and take steps in order to get justice. This is the change we need to see in our society.

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What was the impact of the #MeToo movement in Canada? 

Our new Juristat article compares police-reported sexual assaults in Canada before and after #MeToo. http://ow.ly/BsMq30mxUNF

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This is a bit irrelevant since this is not a social media element but I thought I should share it since it is relevant to the topic. I saw this poster on a board in one of the hallways of Durham College. Its about how women feel and what they want to convey to men.

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Another picture of posters I saw on a board in one of the hallways of Durham College. Its about how women feel and what they want to convey to men. Its a great way to make people aware and support the movement. So, thumbs up to Durham College :)