she jumps on the bandwagon but makes it all about herself so it immediately loses its authenticity. I applaud women for sharing their personal experiences. I’m sure most of us here are women and have all to some degree experiences an unpleasant experience which we may or may not feel comfortable about. However with Em, rather than raising awareness for a movement, to me in just comes across as attention seeking and to be honest it never feels genuine most of the things stories she shares just feel like lies.
I’ve given up on Twitter what did she share about the teacher??
I agree with you. I felt really uncomfortable with what she shared on Twitter because of how she did it. It is good women are speaking out and communicating experiences, some of which are very hard to read and are serious upsetting situations.
I think what Em shared was a mixture of fear (where she runs and getting in taxis which every women has to be honest) and then a few tales about her school teacher and being told off for wearing a hoodie that was too tight. I’m not diminishing what she’s saying (if true) but I felt she was sharing this to join in rather than being authentic because she lies so much and she didn’t preface it with why she was sharing. It was like Mother’s Day tweets then bam, heres my experience of something inappropriate. It’s just not the way to do it.
I think Ruby Holley did really well with her approach in contrast as she talked about the news but acknowledged it was triggering for many people and for people to take care. I feel that’s responsible. We don’t need every influencers hot take or recollection of an unsolicited bum squeeze (Which pretty much every woman has experienced). We need to leave space for women who have suffering serious crimes so we can hear them.
And on the schools front, I bet if you ask anyone in their 30s and over and they will have a tale about a pervy teacher or something like that. My school had a rumour about a music teacher getting off with a pupil on a school trip and then he was suddenly never seen again. Our headteacher committed fraud and stole money and was arrested. My husband trained with a football team where a prolific pweirdo worked as the coach and was found years later to have been abusing boys (my husband was not affected luckily). That ended up with the news. its of course shocking these people get anywhere near positions of power or children but dangerous people exist in society.
I’m not sure why Em shared the story about her teacher. It could be triggering to someone who suffered sexual abuse but her need to share and look like she has some incident to join in with seems to trump any consideration for others.