Community Chat

[Laura14]

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

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@Laura14 wrote:

I was pulling for one of the others but I understand going with the issue du jour.  Time's way of staying relevant and riding the wave.    

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For the very reason some minimize it as "the issue du jour" is why I am so glad this is indeed the choice selected. It's still very necessary to bring this to the fore and address it seriously. 

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@Caaareful Shopper  I'd rather they would have been courageous enough to go with the issue which is still not completely addressed in this country and got sidetracked into a completely separate issue that had zero to do with what the man who created the movement intended.  His and those voices still are not yet heard.  They were silenced by the best red herring ever thrown. 

Time to get over an age old issue that I believe everyone including women have some culpability in and move on to others that are in desperate need of address.  No one has died in #MeToo that I am aware of.  I am still standing with an issue that is more serious and I'm not even a member of the community most greatly affected by it.     

My opinion.  My issue of the year.   

[software]

Celebrating people who kept silent all these years, making them in collusion with the abusers.  

Nah.....

[deepwaterdotter]

The airing of disagreement with the magazine's choice gives me the impression that it is relevent.

[LiveLaughLove]

Read the article. You will find it mentions people from all walks of life.

[JaneMarple]

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@LiveLaughLove wrote:
Read the article. You will find it mentions people from all walks of life.

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Heaven forbid the dissenters would read it because then they might learn something!

[Caaareful Shopper]

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@Laura14 wrote:

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

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@Laura14 wrote:

I was pulling for one of the others but I understand going with the issue du jour.  Time's way of staying relevant and riding the wave.    

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For the very reason some minimize it as "the issue du jour" is why I am so glad this is indeed the choice selected. It's still very necessary to bring this to the fore and address it seriously. 

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@Caaareful Shopper  I'd rather they would have been courageous enough to go with the issue which is still not completely addressed in this country and got sidetracked into a completely separate issue that had zero to do with what the man who created the movement intended.  His and those voices still are not yet heard.  They were silenced by the best red herring ever thrown. 

Time to get over an age old issue that I believe everyone including women have some culpability in and move on to others that are in desperate need of address.  No one has died in #MeToo that I am aware of.  I am still standing with an issue that is more serious and I'm not even a member of the community most greatly affected by it.     

My opinion.  My issue of the year.   

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@Laura14 In your 1st paragraph, I believe I know the issue you are referencing, and I absolutely agree with you that it's critical, relevant, dire, and still not addressed. 

But I will not lessen one over the other, in order to keep the work that still needs to be done for both issues uncomfortably present and relevant.

[Caaareful Shopper]

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@software wrote:

Celebrating people who kept silent all these years, making them in collusion with the abusers.  

Nah.....

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@software  Are you really equating the women with their abusers?  Have you read any of their stories of why they were silent?  Coming forward now, years later, makes them in collusion with the abusers?  Wow.

[momtochloe]

I'd like to clarify my Gretchen Carlson comment as clearly there were many, many women that spoke out (or at least tried to) beforehand.  My mention of her in terms of the article was aimed solely at Megyn Kelly as she decided to insert herself into the conversation after Gretchen went through the meat grinder to get her story out.  In my opinion, Megyn should not have appeared in the article.