The #metoo hashtag that originated on Twitter is a movement started by a women that survived sexual harassment and was set out to start a chain of responses from other women who has experienced it as well. This created not only a safe place for women to speak freely, but it being on Twitter, it is public. The hashtag on Twitter allows anyone to see it. The amount of women that have had to and do experience things like that were able to speak on it publicly is which is very empowering. I thought it was amazing that there was a public platform for women, but then I started to think about how the comments posted were just the people that were willing and ready to share. There were already a lot of them to begin with so imagine how many women didn’t share. It’s also very important to get word out about people who have sexually harassed others because usually when they do it, they don’t stop at just one person.
