European Parliament member Terry Reintke (C) holds a placard with the hashtag MeToo during a debate to discuss preventive measures against sexual harassment and abuse in the EU at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
ON the heels of the “me too” hashtag (#MeToo) that flooded social media with women sharing the hashtag to emphasise how widespread sexual harassment is, a Malaysian tweeted that while men might tell off other men in private for sexually harassing women, they would not stand witness in sexual harassment allegations as men are supposed to be loyal to their friends (paraphrase mine, as the tweet was written in Manglish).
In 140 characters, this tweet exemplifies the crux of the problem.
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