Sexual Harassment of the DAY
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- colin_s0
It's cool that this is finally happening, but much like Black Lives Matter, I fear that this is the media using the hype of anti-Trump-ism to finally let a few stories through the cracks that would otherwise be stifled airtime-wise.
Cops haven't suddenly changed to be 'the good guys,' nor has any real reform been seen. People of color are still, and perhaps moreso now, are still subject to the law enforcement of America... it's just last year the cameras seemed to care more.
This will go on for another month but I'd imagine by the new year, the media will move on to cover something else that gets big attention as a moral issue, and then forget about it.
That's the interesting thing to me about all of this - that we're looking at power dynamics between individuals and finally exposing them, and hopefully doing the best to tear them down. Yet the true power dynamic is between the cultural narrative at large and those responsible for overseeing the systems that perpetuate it.
Weinstein is probably the only name on this list that matters to anyone outside of the individual victims, because it isn't just a guy losing his career but an industry taking a hit. That shit doesn't happen much.
(For those who might say "But social media will care ...", I'd say that there have been many mass shootings that social media cares about that the powers that be stop the flow of information for.)
- It has nothing to do with trump. He was accused of sexual misconduct by 20 women though.monospaced
- You don't think the media hype of left-populist stories in the past year had anything to do with the shock of the election?colin_s
- Like I'm as far left as they come and this is popcorn season in terms of watching the powerful eat shit, but there's obviously more than retweets happeningcolin_s
- maybe but I recall this kind of hype for years on both sides ... I wouldn't give so much credit to how low trump has set the bar for human decencymonospaced
- I think it more has to do with news directors using anti-Trump stories as tentpoles for ad revenue. But I'm cynical as fuck about the journalism industrycolin_s
- they weren't starving for ad revenue before Trump ... he simply gives them a lot of shit to report on, because he's an ass clown of epic proportions, daily.monospaced