That doesn't make sense to me. Like at all.
The western world is literally the safest place in the history of the world, that is an undeniable fact. Compared to any other era, there is less crime, murder, rape and assault than ever before and there is no other place or time where anyone would have been better off. Yet somehow, women seem to now be more paranoid, afraid and angry than ever, even though they are safer, richer and in many areas doing much better than their male equivalent, than ever before.
Just as an example, spend some time on /r/TwoXChromosomes or /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy (some of the largest female communities on the internet), and you'll quickly understand how out of control things have gotten. According to these communities, western countries are rape and murder filled wastelands, where evil, dangerous men hide around every corner just waiting to catch their next prey. And all men are secretly in on it and protecting these vast groups of people, which is why ALL men should be feared, avoided and treated like 'loaded weapons', as they would phrase it. Almost every day I go on reddit, I see at least one or more posts on the front page of /r/all reading something like 'A guy said hello to me, so I ran away in fear because he might be a rapist', with people responding along the lines of 'You are so right, maybe you should get a gun'. It's insane.
Social media has allowed a small group of people to spread false ideas around society (this applies to much more than this subject) that do nothing but create needless opposition and paranoia. #meetoo is one of them. It started out as a righteous and justified protest regarding the revelations surrounding Harvey Weinstein, targeting a small number of rich, powerful individuals (plenty of women in hollywood have abused people too, and people like Terry Crews and Brendan Fraser spoke up about it but were ignored) in the movie and music industry. That lasted for about 5 minutes before the well was poisoned.
Instead of it developing into a useful movement against abusive people in powerful positions, which is what it originally was about, or it opening up a dialog for both men and women to speak about their experiences (in a productive way that brings people together), it quickly developed into a chaotic, mysandrist mess, where everyone who had an awkward date, an uncomfortable conversation, or got a weird look from someone, piled on in the name of this 'rape culture' narrative. Before you knew it the 'not all men' and 'believe all women' memes were brought into existence and the plot was officially lost. And after so many years of this nonsense (alongside many other factors of course), the primary result seems to be that young men are choosing not to date at all anymore,
in shockingly large numbers, and both young men and women are taking
more antidepressants than ever before.
Secondly, the idea that
men are these privileged, oppressive, murdering, raping, beasts, that did nothing but live like kings whilst oppressing and taking advantage of women for the entirety of human history, is categorically
false. It is a
lie that is being spread by politically motivated, bitter people that seek to divide us. Men and women, from the beginning of time up until the late 1800's, both suffered
tremendously, and they did it together. Yes women had their unique struggles and suffering, and of course that should be talked about, but let's stop pretending and pushing this narrative that life was a paradise for men. War, slavery, torture, disease, starvation, crippling back-breaking labour, dire poverty... life was all around hell for men as well. The vast, vast,
vast, majority of men living today (and most of the men who are dead and buried) can in no way recognize themselves in the narrative that is being pushed, and I deeply fear the long-term consequences this will have for young men growing up today.
The simple truth is, people in positions of wealth and power have always abused and taken advantage of people who have nothing and no power, throughout the entirety of human history, and then those in power use politics, religion, race, sex and whatever else they can to divide us so we're too occupied with hating each other to make actual systematic changes, or understand eachother's struggles in a meaningful way.
As far as I am concerned, #meetoo is just another item to be added to that list, a loud, chaotic distraction that is driving us towards division and hate. This whole Depp trial, and all the social media attention around it, is a giant symptom of how fed up people are with it, and how frustrated young men are with being painted in this horrid light all the time.
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