The author, Margaret Renkl's opinion piece, "The Raw Power of #MeToo," is intended to be an informative piece for everyone, not just women. If you have a mother, daughter, sister, wife or girlfriend, this will include you as well. If you are a son, a brother, or father than the piece is intended to help inform everyone not just men, the difficulty of being women in this world. This article is about the secret stories woman have the misfortunate of having to conceal with them because the world is so different for them, so much so that being sexually harassed is shameful. “The numbers keep ticking up as women tell the stories of men who used their power to overwhelm or coerce them,” says Renkl as more and more women are using social media to bring to light the injustice done to them.
The author’s credibility stems from the sole fact that she’s a woman who’s gone through the sexual harassment throughout the years from men in her life. She argues that people of power have also abused not just women, but men as well. With men also tweeting their own stories through the hashtag “IHearYou” the epidemic of sexual harassment is alarming and terrifying. However, men can have it as disturbing as women in some cases, because "men can't get raped," or "harassed," some people won't even believe or listen to their stories.
The author’s evidence is posted all over social media, it has been for 10 years by the African-American activist Tarana Burke. However the authors suggest that the movement will fade, I don't agree with her in this viewpoint. I believe that sexual harassment against women and men will always be relevant, especially now that social media has become a way for more people to get their information, it’s also become a significant way for people to voice their own stories.
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