#Metoo

It's been more than a month since Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was toppled by multiple allegations of sexual harassment and sexual abuse.  For once the women were taken seriously and the flood of accusations has just gone on and on day after day with more and more powerful men falling.  #Metoo has provided a platform for more women (and men) to tell their stories of abuse.  It's not just white men in public positions of power that are abusers.  Women (and men) in all walks of life have experienced sexual harassment and abuse in their work and lives.   I hope this time represents a sea-change in our culture so that such abuses are no longer tolerated.  Maybe everyone just had it, when an abuser was elected President and this is in reaction to him.  For me, it's shocking and yet it isn't.  When I was younger, I had an instinct to keep away from " the dirty old men" as I used to call them.  Lucky, I've come across just a few such men in my life experience.  One of the Physics professors where Bob was a graduate student was known, at least by the women, to be too familiar with the grad students' girlfriends.  There were male parishioners at a churches I served who used to try to feel me up in too long hugs and I had to duck away from them and make sure the hugs were shoulder to chest.  It represents a big can of worms concerning the accountability - what will happen to these abusers.  I hope women (and men) will keep coming forward to tell their stories and will continue to be supported for their courage and that such behavior is no longer tolerated ever, ever again.  Maybe I'm being too hopeful here.  It's been a long time going on.
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