The Vekta-Helghast Empire wrote:Honestly, the #Metoo movement mutated into something far beyond its original scope. Initially, it was bringing attention to sexual abuse in the workplace, to real rapes and other acts of misconduct. But as with many things like this, it grew legs and bolted in every direction - and now it's grown into this thing where people are causing witch-hunts over someone patting their shoulder, or making a simple one-off comment.
It's not only damaging to its original mission now, but it's also damaging to gender-relations as OP states, because it makes male colleagues reconsider even speaking with their female counterparts for fear of backlash from it. And now, a large section of the population won't take the original message of #MeToo as seriously, simply because now there's too many people who've saturated the brand with petty issues.
You don't understand the movement then. The initial part is used to crush dissent and claim moral authority for a witch hunt that ultimately doesn't care about anything other than vilifying men and harming them while attacking their human rights to due process and so on. Like if every time a Black man ever raped a white woman, the Klan threw a massive shitfit and made sure everyone knew about it, but soon enough they're just burning any black people they can because they hate them and that's why they flipped out in the first place.
They don't flip out over male victims, nor female perpetrators. These people don't actually care about rape victims or sexual assault victims. They care about hating men and pushing a narrative that pathologizes their behavior. You can tell this is the case because their dogmatisms about what causes assault/rape ignore female perpetrators entirely and discusses it as a "problem with masculinity." and so on, sort of like if there was a group discussing "crime" as "A problem with black culture." constantly. The reason this narrative is advanced is because it fits with the prejudices of the adherent, and it functionally justifies their belief that mens groups, organizations and so on, should be shut down and suppressed, and pushes the notion that men should be kept isolated from eachothers influence and subject to feminist demands entirely and without recourse.
Feminists aren't willing to admit they were full of shit on this idea, even in the face of "toxic masculine" traits being far more common in boys without fathers, for instance.