RIP #MeToo 2006 - 2020

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She attended Antioch for only three quarters, then claimed to have attained a degree. When questioned about this, she claimed to have graduated under a special arrangement with then-chancellor Toni Murdock, except that:

However, university officials conferred with Murdock, an Antioch official told POLITICO, and confirmed that no special arrangement existed.

She also claimed to have worked as a professor there and didn’t. She used this fake degree to gain entry to Seattle’s School of Law, from which she did actually graduate. At trial she vastly exaggerated her work in Biden’s office:

Reade also appears to have embellished her role in Biden’s office. Reade served in his Senate office from December 1992 to July 1993 as a staff assistant, a relatively junior position. Reade has said she managed interns for a time. But when queried about her job experience at the trial, Reade referred to herself as a legislative assistant, a more senior job classification that conveyed more responsibility, according to the transcript.

“I worked with domestic violence prevention for over 20-some years in different capacities. I started working for U.S. Senator Joseph Biden. I was a legislative assistant. He worked on the Violence Against Women Act, the federal act,” Reade testified.

Her degree at Antioch was whatever it needs to be at any given time:

She was later asked whether her degree from Antioch University was in political science.

“Liberal arts, yeah,” Reade responded.

“But your résumé says liberal,” the attorney followed up.

“Yeah. The focus was political science. I worked for Leon Panetta and Joe Biden and then moved on to King County prosecutor’s office,” she said.

She’s a fabulist. The pattern is not complicated. When she needs a degree to get into Seattle Law, she invents one. When confronted about this invention, we get more invention of some kind of special arrangement with the chancellor. When she’s asked about her role in Biden’s office, she says she has legal experience in the field in question at trial. When her BA needs to be Political Science instead of liberal arts, it is. When she’s questioned about the conflict between her 2019 and 2020 stories, someone who was really determined to come clean would say “look I know it makes my story harder to believe, but I just wasn’t ready to tell the whole truth back in 2019, I realise that’s on me, but I’m not lying now”. Instead of which we get this story where she was a victim of media pressure.

I know people with this sort of capacity to promote what they would like to be true into the status of real truth. It’s not actually a fun way to live. I don’t have any ill will towards her, but I am definitely not trusting a single thing she says.

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I think #me2 was a dud. They got few rapists and they got some woman to open up but in the end I assume that the most powerful who did similar stuff remained in power. I got the feeling me2 lead woman into a state of satisfaction. It seemed they achieved what they wanted but in the end I think thats the wrong thinking. Not much has changed; hell until this thread I couldnt remember when I last heard about something me2 related. Woman have to realize you only change things when you have power and not enough are pursuing power through various means. They can do better than men but first you have to get to this point where it actually matters.

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I agree it’s been out of the news cycle for a while, but it’s pretty hard to cop a feel in a Zoom Conference.

I think like with most social movements like this, the pace feels frenetic at first, then it dies down as people adjust their behavior. The ultimate win of #MeToo isn’t that every man who has ever sexually harassed a woman at work gets publicly fired. The win is when workplace culture changes enough that it isn’t an ordinary occurrence that women feel threatened when just trying to do their job.

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I hear what you’re saying but this feels like an insanely high bar. No rights movement is going to conclusively eradicate a social problem in a year or two. Was the Civil Rights movement a “dud” just because black lives continue to not matter enough? I don’t know, it seems like if you want to be in the fight for justice you’ve got to accept that its a fight that never ends.

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I didnt expect them to eradicate that problem in 2 years. I am just not sure how much woman understand what it takes to make significant changes. Its not just opening up and speaking up. They have to change their whole approach. I sincerly believe that for a better world we need woman to take over more and more but I see no signs that this happens. Ofc you have some like Merkel, Ardem or the Scandi premiers but even Merkel cant do shit without the approval of all the men that are below her. I dont count the republican woman who go for power because they prefer women to be “good” wives and mothers.
A lot of power comes from money because you cant rely on voters. A lot of men would feel threatened quickly and vote for everyone else but a woman. So I think they have to find ways to be the next Zuckerberg, Gates or Koch brothers they just have to have a different endgame for it to work. History showed that woman can be as cruel as men but overall I believe that the majority would have a better approach to govern this world and keep the planet habitable for more than just few selected white people.

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Weinstein going to jail seems like a solid win for the movement.

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They only got him because he was so obviously a fat disgusting weirdo. Also he wasn’t smart enough to run for some local role as a dem. If he’d used his hillary connections to become a (D) politician he might have gotten the army of Karen’s behind him.

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This is an incredibly terrible take. They got him because of the incredibly brave and difficult work of many women who choose to enter the media circus, and disrupt their own lives, to help prevent future abuse. Not to mention a group of journalists who put in decades of work.

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Sure, but if he’d looked like Brad Pitt or was a (D) County commissioner or some bullshit all of that work and sacrifice would’ve been wasted.

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Please read the books about the case. You are simply factually wrong. He did wield his immense power, including his connections to dems. This is how he got away with it for years. He got caught because of hard working journalists and many brave and scared women.

You are belittling the work they did by suggesting it was easy because he wasn’t a politician.

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Legit not sure what level you’re on here, but this is a pretty ridiculous take.

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I’m not suggesting it was easy. I’m saying bringing down powerful men is basically impossible. You need to hit the parley of an insanely dedicated amount of hard work and sacrifice from tons of people with everything to lose and the man in question being a clearly gross freak with no positive features.

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look I understand this desire to think everything is always terrible. I have it too. But #metoo didn’t fail. There was nothing inevitable about its success. It’s didn’t target easy wins. It succeeded, and is still having an effect globally, because of the hard work of a lot of people. It’s a 21st century civil rights success story. Let’s not find ways to belittle or denigrate its success. And let’s not hold it to impossible standards when measuring its success.

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Fair enough. I’m certainly not intending to belittle anyone who works hard for a better world. Especially when they do it at great personal risk and for no real personal reward. They’re far better people than me. That’s why pocketchads is my number one hero of all time.

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