The ME TOO Movement 2017 - Stopping Sexual Harrassment for Once and for All

11-21-2017:  Now Charlie Rose, respected veteran author and journalist and morning show host, has EIGHT women accusing him of sexual assault!  As far back as the 90’s they say, he would grab women’s legs, groping, presenting himself to several women naked at least a dozen times, and making unwanted advances, ‘lewd’ phone calls and comments.  “That’s just Charlie,” some would say – but the behavior was allowed to continue.  He admits behaving insensitively and tells the women, “I hear them…”; but claims he thought he was “pursuing shared feelings.”  CBS has suspended him, effective immediately and more women are expected to come forward against him in coming weeks.  They say there was a lot of ‘talk’ and some people (on the inside) actually knew, allowing the behavior to continue.  Harvey Weinstein?  I’ve lost track of how many women have come out with accusations against him.

A second woman has come forward against Al Franken too, grabbing her rear end when they posed for a photo her husband was taking of them, while he was a sitting Senator; he says he “feels badly [she] came away from [their] interaction feeling disrespected.”  The other woman, whom he was shown pretending to grab boobs of in a photo, now viral, has also accused him of forcibly kissing her backstage after a USO tour.  Governor of Alabama, Roy Moore, a current candidate (for Senate, I believe) has more than a dozen women who say he either tried, or did actually, sexually assault them AS TEENAGERS, when he was a 32 year old District Attorney..  He says he “never dated any girl without the permission of her mother.”  Oh my god, are you kidding me???~!  Louis CK has been basically blacklisted by everybody; a movie he just finished making, ready for release, has been pulled from release, all contracts cancelled, sponsors pulled out… his career is over.

Numerous accusations against executive producer, Roger Ales and reporter, Bill O’Reily, at the FOX network came out last year; they say the cost to Fox was about Fifty Million dollars; this includes sponsor withdrawals and advertisement withdrawals, as well as settlements paid out to accusers; now, the paper that exposed the allegations against O’Reily {The New York Times} has a journalist, John Thrush, with four female coworkers making allegations of sexual harassment against him!  This IS happening.  Men and women are realizing that this kind of treatment does not have to be tolerated BY ANY BODY; victims are noticing more and more that it is okay to tell!  It’s the only way this type of behavior is ever going to stop; and it’s about time.  Dan Abrams explains that even “unwanted touching” can be a criminal act and people, both male and female, need to be more careful with their behavior.