{"id":400699,"date":"2019-03-21T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/has-metoo-empowered-women-or-castigated-men-rt-guests-debate-sexual-harassment-in-america-video-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T20:18:00","slug":"has-metoo-empowered-women-or-castigated-men-rt-guests-debate-sexual-harassment-in-america-video-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/has-metoo-empowered-women-or-castigated-men-rt-guests-debate-sexual-harassment-in-america-video-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Has #MeToo empowered women or castigated men? RT guests debate sexual harassment in America (VIDEO) \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RT\u2019s debate explores whether #MeToo has encouraged women to speak up or has created a platform for false allegations, in light of a new poll that shows men are now less concerned about harassment than before the movement began.<\/p>\n

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The number of male respondents who believe workplace harassment to be a serious issue has dropped 13% since the start of the #MeToo movement in 2017, a new Gallup poll shows. Men were also more likely to believe people are too sensitive about the issue. What has changed?<\/p>\n

\u201cMen are getting caught, and they want to go back to how things used to be<\/em>\u201d says women\u2019s rights advocate Reese Everson. She believes that the \u201cold boys club<\/em>\u201d is angry that they are no longer able to harass with impunity since the #MeToo movement began to raise awareness of the issue.<\/p>\n


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In particular, she thinks the drop in their concern about harassment is predominant among \u201crepublican men<\/em>\u201d who are \u201con the defensive<\/em>\u201d in the wake of allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and are worried something similar might happen to them.<\/p>\n

Gina Loudon, on the other hand, takes exception to \u201ccastigating men<\/em>\u201d as a unified \u201cviolent group<\/em>\u201d while painting women as their victims. She argues that the #MeToo movement\u2019s push to \u201cbelieve women,<\/em>\u201d even without concrete evidence, has resulted in a justifiable fear over the erosion of due process.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccusations that have zero evidence can actually be used against someone later in their career,<\/em>\u201d she argued. While some men are indeed guilty, she continued, \u201csome women have made false allegations.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n