"I'm raising a daughter who is going to have to deal with many of the same problems that I face. They need to see that there is a problem that must not be denied or hidden," she said. Now more than ever people around the world, men in particular, need to see what we women have to deal with. "I think I'm speaking out now because of the current political climate. Marya Jansen-Gruber, a 47-year-old book editor in Ashland, Oregon, has spoken to people about her rape in the past, but never on social media, where she also joined the "Me Too" movement. "But I know I don't have anything to be ashamed of." "Most survivors don't press charges and I totally understand that, and those that do rarely make it past the grand jury," Tadros said. Still, she feared the stigma, choosing to keep the attack under the radar both personally and professionally in the beginning. She had the help of an advocacy organization in navigating the legal system. Tadros, a singer-songwriter, considers herself among the lucky. She pressed charges but in the end he struck a plea deal that included court-mandated therapy, probation and a letter of apology. Despite that, she went straight to the hospital, where police were called. The sheer number are unbelievable, and a lot of men are saying, 'Really, that many?'"įrom New York where she now lives, 30-year-old Texan Aly Tadros added her voice on Facebook.Įvoking "Me Too," she said she was sexually assaulted at 19, by a bar owner years older than she was in her hometown of Laredo. "Women are disclosing that they've been harassed, attacked or abused, sometimes for the first time, and if it isn't for the first time, it's for the first time this publicly. "The 'Me Too' thing has had a transformative affect that is more complex than people probably thought in the beginning," Taylor said. A longtime women's activist, the 60-year-old Taylor founded a training organization 20 years ago called Defend Yourself, helping women learn "empowerment defense" to ward off physical and emotional attacks in all aspects of their lives. Growing up in Washington, D.C., she recalled near daily street harassment, from men yelling vile things at out of car windows to boys chasing her as she rode her bike. Lauren Taylor hopes "Me Too" grows into something more than a passing hashtag. The massive response to #MeToo demonstrated what many women already know: Americans are sexually assaulted every 98 seconds and one in six women have faced rape.
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