Breaking The Silence

SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS NOT A WOMEN’S ISSUE. MEN NEED TO LEARN TO BEHAVE AND ACT PROPERLY.

- Jessica Hines

Just to get this out upfront, #metoo. And everyone that I spoke to, all my friends, especially of my age group of middle-aged women had at least one #metoo story. Some, like myself, had several stories that they had just pushed to the back of their mind, pushed out of the way to allow them to get on with their lives. I was, like everyone else, taken by surprise by the sudden god almighty wonderful vomiting up by women of all ages of their #metoo stories. Of the sudden calling out of men from across all sectors of society. It was a wonderful feeling. A palpable sense of excitement, a race to chime in with tales, support and encouragement. To be part of this moment of a very vocal part of women standing together to say, ‘no, no more, it is not ok to behave like that, we don’t accept it.’ It was moving, it was supremely humbling and it made me think about mine and the previous generation’s reaction to sexual harassment by men — at work or outside it.

I have always been a feminist