Feminism on social media

In the fall of 2017, the numerous testimonies raised by #MeToo remains to this day, as the culmination of the use of social networks in the fight against violence on women. In a tweet on October 15, 2017, the actress Alyssa Milano accused Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, and invited other female victims to come forward on the #MeToo thread. The call quickly spreads all over the world including France, where journalist Sandra Muller had already started publishing the hashtag #BalanceTonPorc in France on October 13. These hashtags will be followed on Twitter by thousands of subscribers, and many women have denounced the attacks they have suffered in their private or professional life. A rebellion movement is underway and is not about to stop. Women want to report. It is not up to them to be ashamed but to their attackers. Women are not sexual objects and no longer accept to be treated as such. Women speak, they no longer want to close their eyes. On Twitter, numerous videos circulate, women display the heads of their attackers in public transport, the way they are approached in the street. A lynching made viral in a few hours thanks to a few retweets, the man is then identified and humiliated. In addition, new hashtags are born with the famous #menaretrash which laugh about the male gender. Posters on feminicides are shared, they write on the walls the names of women killed by their executioner. The photos taken of these works circulate everywhere, to the streets from networks such as Twitter or Instagram. A pervasive societal evolution with also two months ago #oscardelahonte. Polanski rewarded, women are angry, particularly women victims of sexual abuse who identify themselves and do not feel recognized as victims of these criminals. The César are then humiliated on all networks, accomplice and tolerant with a rapist. A debate opens and ideas diverge, but what is certain is that the world is changing and evolving. Women no longer want to be silent and make their voices heard as loud as possible through social networks and demonstrations organized around these themes. A woman is not allowed to be hit by her spouse or to be raped because "she was wearing a skirt that was too short". Social networks are a weapon and can have beautiful sides like developing customs. Social media impact us.

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