Response to #MeToo : Sexual Abuse is Not a Gendered Issue

Original Publication Date: October 20, 2017

Original YouTube Description: The latest hashtag campaign making its way around social media is #MeToo with the supporting text “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote "Me too" as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”

As it says, the campaign is designed to raise awareness of sexual harassment and assault. Let me clarify… sexual harassment and assault of women. By men.

I am a woman who was sexually abused by a woman. #MeToo...?

My issues with the #MeToo campaign are three-fold:

1: By implicitly stating that only women can be victims, it’s dismissing all male sexual abuse victims.

2: By implicitly stating that only men can be perpetrators, it’s dismissing all victims sexually abused by women.

3: It’s lumping sexual harassment together with sexual assault, which are two very different things.

Men, women, boys, and girls can be sexually abused by men, women, boys, or girls. Focusing on female victims of male perpetrators, the #MeToo campaign is ignoring the statistical majority of sexual abuse victims, and ignoring the prevalence of female perpetrators altogether.

Full text of the video can be found here: https://steemit.com/women/@evdoggformayor/response-to-metoo-sexual-abuse-is-not-a-gendered-issue

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REFERENCED ARTICLES:

'The Understudied Female Sexual Predator' https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-understudied-female-sexual-predator/503492/

'When Females Rape Males' https://blogs.psychcentral.com/full-heart/2017/10/when-females-rape-males/

'Sexual Victimization By Women Is More Common Than Previously Known' https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sexual-victimization-by-women-is-more-common-than-previously-known/

'The MeToo Movement Reveals Feminism's Obsession With Victimhood' https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/10/the-metoo-movement-reveals-feminisms-obsession-with-victimhood/

'MeToo May Exaggerate Prevalence of Sex Crimes' http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452808/metoo-may-exaggerate-prevalence-sex-crimes

'Male Rape In America' http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html

'Why MeToo Can Be For Men Too' http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Why-MeToo-can-be-for-men-too-12281653.php

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ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:

Gender Symmetry in Sexual Assault: http://www.femalesexoffenders.org/2014/05/new-study-finds-that-women-rape-men-nearly-equally-to-how-often-theyre-victimized-by-them
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/press-releases/high-prevalence-of-sexual-victimization-detected-among-men-similar-to-prevalence-found-among-women-in-many-cases/

Male victims: http://www.ncdsv.org/publications_malevictims.html

Sexual Abuse of Boys By Mothers: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0145213489900343

Approximately 65% of prison inmates that reported staff sexual misconduct reported a female aggressor:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svpjri0809.pdf - 2009
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/svjfry12.pdf - 2012

50% of homeless youth reported being sexually abused by a female: http://www.nursing.ubc.ca/PDFs/ItsNotWhatYouThink.pdf

Long-term effects of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators: http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/19/10/1137.short

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