"Tweet me your first assault"

by Guest Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:54 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/us/politics/sexual-assault-survivor-reaction.html

https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotOkay?src=hash

It was the author Kelly Oxford, a social media powerhouse, who got things started on Friday night.
“Women: tweet me your first assaults,” she wrote on Twitter at 7:48 p.m. “They aren’t just stats. I’ll go first: Old man on city bus grabs my ‘pussy’ and smiles at me, I’m 12.”

Yet by Saturday morning, she was getting as many as 50 responses per minute: often-explicit, first-person accounts of molestation. A hashtag had materialized: “#notokay.” The Twitter posts continued to pour in through the weekend. And by Monday afternoon, nearly 27 million people had responded or visited Ms. Oxford’s Twitter page.

For many women watching and reacting to the weekend’s events, the surprise news conference on Facebook Live that Mr. Trump staged before Sunday night’s debate, with three women who have long accused Mr. Clinton of sexual assault or harassment, only compounded the damage he had done in the original recording. They saw him not as giving voice to victims of sexual abuse but as using the women as props.

“It’s pretty sad when you see it as, ‘My behavior is not as bad as another man’s behavior,’” said Sonia Ossorio, the president of the National Organization for Women of New York. “The irony for me is, in a campaign short on any concrete policies, Donald Trump has accidentally shed light on a very serious issue.”

by Guest Mon Oct 10, 2016 10:34 pm

Bill Clinton is no less, but Hillary supported him and put down the women he abused. My conscience doesn't allow me to vote for Hillary(not just this, but for other issues too). Can't vote for Trump either. I'm getting sick of the whole thing. I decided to vote for Jill Stein. No, my vote won't go waste. I would voice my opinion and my conscience will be clear about not voting for someone I don't approve.

"Tweet me your first assault"

"Tweet me your first assault"

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