The #MeToo situation in social media...

Is filling me with so much rage. I’m so damn angry for my fellow women out there, and a hashtag isn’t enough. It’s just isn’t. These are my thoughts:

I want to say “me too” but that’s not enough for any of us.

- the coworker who told me my mis-buttoned sweater reminded him of campus date rape

- the customer who would text me obscenities and explicit sexts at 2 a.m.

- the coworker who insisted on hugging and kissing every young woman in the office at events

- the client who tells me every day how sexy he finds my intelligence

- the coworker who told me I was “nerd hot”

- the boss who made sexist (and racist) ‘jokes’ in the office daily

- the sous chef who told me that I liked “headboard banging music” at age 16 (he was talking about The Clash)

- the coworker who told me he liked “the way I walk”

(^^ that’s the the crap that happened at work that I can quickly recall. That’s not counting street harassment or the public sexual assaults.)

And here’s to every woman who has FUCKING LOST TRACK OF THIS SHIT because it happens so frequently, we lost count at a very, very early age.

Harvey Weinstein is both a pariah and the exception - he’s been made a public example while our culture still lauds men like Woody Allen, elects men like Donald Trump and (yes) Bill Clinton, and ignores and silences women like Anita Hill. Don’t fucking congratulate yourselves for paying lip service to women now that a few powerful among us have been elevated (by a male reporter, I must highlight) to the public conversation. Women have been saying these things FOR YEARS and not a whole fuck lot has changed because most men haven’t been compelled to be a part of that change.