For Gen Z,

Five years after the #MeToo movement, Savannah Sellers explores how young voters view feminism, the anti-feminist backlash, and where #MeToo goes from here.
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[@riazuddinriazkhan6794]

No Logic Just Emotional Manipulation .

[@marlak4203]

bingo. THAT is what the movement was. Emotional madness. Its understandable for a "fresh" victim to get like that but after DECADES?? This is why some of the situations where men have been put in prison due to the mess are slowly coming out. Too much emotional mess instead of leaving that alone and focusing.

[@TheAutisticFrog]

@@marlak4203oh my god. a “fresh” victim?

[@corysmith3447]

NBC gaslighting at its finest! paycohpaths

[@bryonlightcap2617]

Me-Too is a joke. Men deserve Due-Process.

[@wildhearts242]

Me-Too is not a joke. Men have sexually abused women and children for years and gotten away with it. Accusations need to be taken seriously.

[@akram379]

@@wildhearts242 cool story. Women have also used that movement to ruin the lives of innocent men for no reason other than attention, money, getting out of trouble, and revenge

[@Kid_Charlemagne76]

@@wildhearts242 accusations get flung around like they're nothing. I never believe a single accusation unless there's evidence and proof to back it up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof

[@Dino23968]

@@wildhearts242 One proof that Metoo is a bad disaster:Amber Heard.

[@thedieseldiet]

​@@wildhearts242 Women abuse men and children alot as well but they face no justice because society in the west panders to women and their feelings. Passport bro is the saving grace.

[@PortugueseMACPOW]

Amber Heard destroyed the little credibility this movement had.

[@Kid_Charlemagne76]

So did Christine Ford

[@corysmith3447]

now lizzo

[@MisterSinister47]

It was bound to happen. All it takes is a few to ruin the name and credibility of the movement. It's because all it takes is ONE to abuse it and others will in that person's footsteps.

[@EliasJWhite]

@@Kid_Charlemagne76 There's no evidence to say she was lying, and she was forced to move house because of the bullying and harassment she received as a result of speaking out. She received many death threats just for speaking publicly, and you're going to say she helped ruin the movement? Wow.

[@GaryHighFruit]

@@EliasJWhite "There's no evidence to say she was lying" There's no evidence to say she was telling the truth. So that whole thing was for nothing. I am liberal, and I think that frat-boy should not be on the supreme court. But he was smeared. "She received many death threats " because it looked like a political stunt.

[@drdubberruckie2346]

Lots of women love Andrew Tate, you can't please everyone.

[@Michael-tk9ux]

It's time for #MenToo. Equality

[@horsermchead2504]

nutjob

[@lambertbrown1739]

Dat right brother ✊🏿

[@TheAutisticFrog]

Yeah actually, more men _and_ women need to speak up on things like this

[@76089randy]

Then let’s do it

[@postalservice_sp]

Yeah, men usually don't come out because they're afraid/

[@boblester8641]

Does metoo support pro life women and Tara Reade

[@randomcommenteronyoutube1055]

This entire report was a joke that dismisses the Men's Rights movement. Conflating Men's Rights with Pick-Up Artists like Andrew Tate is incredibly insulting. Everyday working and middle class young men are in trouble. They're raised in increasingly fatherless homes and woman-dominated school systems that cannot provide the social and emotional resources for a boy to become a man. Listen to Warren Farrell, one of the original Men's Rights proponents. Other public intellectuals like Nicholas Eberstadt or Richard Reeves can tell you about the specific issues that men face on a demographic and population level. If you're interested in individual- and community-level issues, please look up the statistics about who dies from suicides, overdoses, violent criminal deaths, and workplace accidents. Boys and men now less frequently complete education and training or seek gainful employment. This is not good for women, either. There are perfectly valid reasons for the anti-feminist backlash, and men have quickly caught on and noped out of entanglement with increasingly women-dominated spaces.

[@craigfowler7098]

100% bro

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

All men can do is shun what they disagree with. Just be more stoic. Its sad that women are doing this. Leave them to the simps.

[@positivelygrowing12321]

It really feels like the movement started falling flat when CIS straight men started coming forward with their contributions and were mentioning they were victimized the same way, but by women. In the end it felt kind of like this movement was meant for us to publicly out and go after the "bad touch" people, but ONLY if they were men and well off men, at that.

[@randomcommenteronyoutube1055]

No, the movement started falling flat when individuals loosely interpreted the meaning of sexual harassment and instigated kangaroo court sessions that ruined lives and families. Harvey Weinstein is a jerk, and nobody disputes that. He got what was coming to him. The situation now is that we have to police our language, action, and thoughts with the idea that women are a special category of people who need to be treated differently from men. I can't think of a more anti-liberal outcome than that. The bar for accepting and entertaining an allegation of sexual harassment should be very high.

[@jovannyolivss6177]

Ohhh so if it was men doing it to other men that’s fine, god forbid a men get assaulted by a women. Which does happen. The movement was for people who suffer, regardless of gender.

[@DrClaw77]

Facts. You see it for what it is; another NGO, non-profit project hyperfocused about the upper middle class and celebrities, and subsumed by carceral feminists. #MeToo produced HBO documentaries of dubious allegations and boosted media careers using survivorhood as a come up. The women who spoke in this video spoke facts about how it's not about regular people at all

[@iverbronx]

What does ‘CIS’ mean ?

[@postalservice_sp]

@@iverbronx cisgender - born and identifies as male born female and identifies as female,

[@patriciarouse2801]

What's continuously missing is intervention for abusers befor acting on abuse.

[@DavidWilliams-nb3cj]

FATHERS used to do that.

[@fireonhair]

feminist and incels keep calling me an incel... and im not even an incel...

[@munkqiking7207]

Yet you call them incels. Convenient.

[@ibrahimhadid9257]

The solution is not letting kids use social media because there are thousands of pages that post content that you don’t want a 14 year old to watch

[@UnchainedEruption]

That's a pretty stupid "solution," as state governments have found out the hard way. You can't restrict websites without effectively forcing legal adults to submit to onerous I.D. requirements just to visit a site. That is far more worrisome and dystopian. Much easier to just educate kids to know better in the first place than to censor.

[@ibrahimhadid9257]

@@UnchainedEruption you’re misunderstanding is what’s really stupid, a 5 year old kid doesn’t need social media, I’d say when the kid hits high school I’d give him a phone & educate them on these things. Also Depends on what ages you define as a kid. I’d say till 8th grade which is 13-14 years old.

[@sedgwickmcalaster7785]

At least you're able to speak your MIND

[@Kid_Charlemagne76]

Don't forget...victims have a responsibility too

[@76089randy]

Me too, is a bunch of liers who want to be a victim

[@cornucopiaofcool2144]

All very messy.Simpler with Landlines . Autumn for me.. Good luck Gen Z you're going to have to save us to save yourself.

[@DJVirgoNeun1]

You know what's so funny about this is that it doesn't bother me because I heard it all before. A movement comes out, and it empowers a small minority, and things go downhill from here. May I remind everyone here of what happened to #girlboss ? May I remind you Wing? Man Repeller? They all were part of the movement and faced instances of lawsuits regarding fraud, copyright and employee discrimination. Not only that, but there are old school feminists out there who actually hates this current generation of feminists because they support non-binary and transwomen as women, which defeats the purpose in the eyes of older feminists. The point I'm getting at is by the end of the day it's all the same! We're all human, we lie, we cheat, we steal! So change whatever you want, the game is still the same even if it's all women in the same room. Hate is hate especially in the name of good intentions.

[@postalservice_sp]

Weinstein was imprisoned. That's a result.

[@alyssajones4368]

So true. Just like the "Black Lives Matter" movement. One of the founders was caught using the funds to purchase several luxurious homes.

[@supercharger5727]

I have a metoo story as a guy at school I was outside and this girl smacked my butt

[@mrconfusion87]

There are sleazy people in ALL genders bro! For me, if a hot chick does it is flirting! If an ugly chick does it, it is harassment! Eeeewwwwww!

[@gabriellechilton5902]

How about y’all stay off of social media.

[@76089randy]

Women are so jelouse of the tate he’s a real man

[@ericp0012]

Sooner or later, every interaction that a man has with a woman can lead to #MeToo.

[@mistervo8185]

This has nothing to do with me.... Why am I here??? 😳

[@AnthonyTorres32892]

You're here and that's all that matters.

[@UnchainedEruption]

If I was in that room when he asked for a raise of hands, I'd raise 'em...both middle fingers high and proud.

[@GaryHighFruit]

I had the song "Unchained" in my head as I got to your comment. I just heard it an hour ago

[@nathangreenstein7409]

Anyone notice the guys phone case.

[@MyDeeroc]

I never heard any male ever say its okay to harm women what movement is this.

[@musictorelaxandunwind]

me2 vs mgtow

[@user-qp2xy5zs7r]

Another reason why they are after Tweeter, raw power to the people to finally be heard unedited!

[@byrdmaniacsg2776]

This report total ignores the bad behavior of young women today (high body counts, gold digging, unfair hiring practices, etc.) I think people are sick of every group claiming they’re victims.

[@BrianLyons315]

Anybody In The World: Exists and does literally nothing. The MeToo Movement: How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?! The MeToo Movement in a nutshell.

[@firstlast8258]

#mepoo

[@marlak4203]

Metoo Bowel Movement.

[@trackman2300]

There is nothing I'm out of the pick up artist is

[@thedieseldiet]

What!?

[@lanagukina3338]

I think they really downplaying the impact of those “celebrity” women coming out about it; there is an assumption that if you’re wealthy and influential it will bypass you.

[@DocMatthews0311]

#MENTOO

[@mfriedrich2012]

Feminism is a self-correcting problem. MeToo was an emotions first social movement. There was no logic, reason or common sense involved. Innocent until proven guilty and due process was destroyed. Years later women today are more fearful, despondent, depressed, taking SSRIs, suffering from alcoholism, overworked, indebted and lonely than ever before. The dating and marriage market have also been thoroughly destroyed, replaced with hookup apps, pump and dump, cohabitation and fatherless homes. Women view husbands and fathers as optional, and only if they are “economically attractive”. The number of single bachelors is exploding. They did it to themselves.

[@patriciarouse2801]

Maybe study topics starting with the words, is helpful instruction for you. Just feed back as the language symbols you are both not informed for lack of curiosity, apparently, and adopting the repeated hype that is likewise surface noise . Stay stupid and what are you offering on the only planet to support abundant predictable lifecycle.... It's 100 years +/- , going to pout cause it's all in motion , aging or forming and it takes effort? Did you need genders to line up and fit your however old you are idea ... It's ok to tell abusers they are abusers. No one's obligated to agree with abuse or neglect. Or age level observation or just lazy so far. Whining is not knowledge grasshopper.

[@patriciarouse2801]

What you lack is honest attention m Friedrich. And most of that is about you ruminating on the content of an unused mind. Neglect is abuse and when you select those two it gets worse. Learn, if you still can . Otherwise you are stuck in emotional intellectual spiritual neglect abuse and not sexually applicable. Busy with your own private bummer.

[@horsermchead2504]

quit lying about us

[@marlak4203]

I'm so glad you said how I have seen this movement also. Emotional. This is why the men who have been put away in prison due to that mess are being able to get out. Now that time has passed, cooler heads prevail and folks are getting things lighter for them. There are some evil ones in Hollywood, politics, etc. but you mess things up when you go ahead too far and hard. The bad guy ends up getting loose because of the foolishness in not going about it the right way. And i am not surprised at the pendulum swinging in the other way that will hit back at women harder than men did before, unfortunately and i do blame this for it.

[@munkqiking7207]

@@horsermchead2504 You only speak for yourself. And youre obviously an exception.

[@ppp0911]

Andrew Tate is the G.O.A.T.🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@nancikuba42]

I guess something that made a huge change for women, seems to have faded away to make room for a new cause the world could jump on board with. I still feel they made a huge change I feel, like with anything, the old movement needs to bow down to the new movement & if it conflicts with it, they will be the ones attacked. That’s why the me too movement has gone silent about current events.

[@Carousel5883]

Metoo is great if the accusations are true but all need due process instead of guilty by accusation.No one man or woman should be falsely accused.

[@rubbadubdub7529]

Hashtag quality over quantity

[@rizon72]

What they don't realize is young men follow Andrew Tate because they get tired of being called bad by every other part of society.

[@odefiremanlonl3065]

Conclusion of this video feminism is miss understood but MRA is misogynistic ,give me a brake🙄

[@matth6837]

Me Too turned into OnlyFans great work!

[@user-pj8ed8il9s]

the THICKTOK generation!!

[@rickhunter7443]

4:41 Nobaby in the red pill community ever said that bro, nobody. I watch stephiscold and fresh and fit. They are trying to tech men about female psychology and self improvement. If you crash your bike get hurt real bad, obviously you’re gonna try your best to not make the same mistake again. It's not misogynistic to better yourself.

[@inorbit8666]

And ofcourse we didn't hear any comment about the fault allegations... Happy now ?

[@Hollowdude15]

I can see why gen z did not change nothing because of woman abusing the movement and great video :]

[@Hollowdude15]

Wow 🎉

[@ky4451]

I blame all mainstream media, the metoo movement and the clowns at the top.

[@jokey95123]

Why you don’t address male issues?… it is normal to have these reactions, when you ignore the numbers. And these numbers are men, people.

[@lambertbrown1739]

Ok simp

[@thegreatergood8081]

​@@lambertbrown1739pretty sure you don't know what that means

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

so what?

[@RandyTerrell7174]

Who cares?

[@davediamond7228]

sexual abusers dont care ,isn't that right ?

[@bignasty6395]

@@davediamond7228 feminism is trash

[@BlackWolfInc277]

@@davediamond7228 So no one cares then basically? Sounds about right

[@bentheg9793]

Considering even Gen Z doesn't care (as shown in this video), I say it *is* right@@BlackWolfInc277

[@jannguerrero]

All the cool ideas eventually get old and stale the faker they are

[@pacerts2911]

#Metoo includes college sexual assault. The stance taken is like Roe vs Wade. GenZ stance is from a lack of knowledge...you do not know what you have until you lose it. Strength lies in numbers. If GenZ believes their issues are not included - then include them. There is enough room for everyone.

[@pacerts2911]

#ICantBreathe_Florida

[@MarianoCiancone]

❤

[@76089randy]

We love Andrew tate

[@btonemajor2703]

USA: People of ALL Colours stimulate each other and spice things up in American society. Make it vibrant, alive, loving and active. The government and Police are on YOUR side including everyone who is good. Together we move FORWARD towards our Light and Free Air. I Love Y'all & I Love The United States of America 💯❤️

[@patternrecon5271]

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[@leavingitblank9363]

Those Gen Z women don't get it. #MeToo isn't a _solution_ to the problem -- it's a *_movement._* They need to join that movement in order to keep it going and have it mean something. They can't sit there on their butts and expect the world to change for them. As for that Andrew Tate character -- it's hilarious that THAT is what is being portrayed and idolized as the ideal alpha male. To any men seeing this, he does NOT read as an alpha male to a woman. Maybe to other men, but not to women. He comes across as all facade -- a total bluff by a weak individual. I'll bet any money that in the privacy of his bedroom, he's terrified he'll be discovered as a fraud. So if you want to register as important to other men, then sure, follow him. But don't complain that women don't like you or don't get you or whatever it is that makes ya'll so angry.

[@bignasty6395]

You have an incredibly smooth brain...XD

[@leavingitblank9363]

@@bignasty6395 Case in point 👆

[@bignasty6395]

@@leavingitblank9363 it's not my fault your IQ matches your shoe size m8....XD

[@boblester8641]

So why did Hollywood cover for Weinstein all those year. Just ask Rose McGowen

[@munkqiking7207]

Well it doesnt matter what you think about Andrew Tate. Plenty of women prioritize wealth and shallow status over a profound character and class. Young boys pick up on that and see him getting all the attention, so they emulate him. Young boys will go for becoming the stereotype that offers the most returns. Not saying I even like Andrew Tate or that there arent better rolemodels for boys to follow, but they see it all the time in the environment, media and popculture. Loud, obnoxious, arrogant, wealthy dudes with chains going down to their nuts get most of the attention from women. Ofcourse the boys are going to want that. It seems like women have a problem with instilling values in their daughters, rather than "girls just want to have fun". Giels just want to have fun is how 10 of you end up sharing chad.

[@punapeter]

"Me Too" was initially used in this context on social media in 2006, on Myspace, by sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana Burke

[@MannyAguilarJr]

Truth is no one cares what you have to say.

[@pookiesis1465]

@@MannyAguilarJr it was originally for inner city sexual assault victims. But then of course Hollywood took it for rich women who were mad about something 30 years later

[@joshntn37111]

These kind of videos is the best recruiting tool for the Republican party. They cannot see how scripted and ridiculous they sound. No wonder Republicans are about to sweep the mid terms to help set up our President, that the streets miss very much, to take his rightful seat back on the throne. The media still doesn't get it. Truly amazing!!

[@heidifredricks8641]

👀

[@TimmyTheTinman]

How did that red wave go by the way?😂

[@nahha9529]

@@TimmyTheTinman Exactly the way the FBI wanted it to go......

[@munkqiking7207]

Which one? The one getting arrested?

[@GaryHighFruit]

What sweep of the mid terms are you talking about? It's too bad the R party is actually worse than the Dems. We need one party to keep the other in check.