#Me-Too movement

Thanks to # Me Too movement, incidences of sexual harassment and assault on women by men are being increasingly brought to light by women themselves. Earlier women perhaps felt shy of making public the sexual misdemeanour meted out to them for fear of social stigma. Time has changed; now women come forward to speak their mind openly if they are sexually abused, no matter how influential the perpetrator of the offence may be. What’s more, our society takes such matters seriously and mobilise their opinion to bring the accused to book.

# Me-Too movement originated abroad to highlight allegedly wide spread  men’s  sexual misconduct with women ,particularly in work place, more often than not taking positional advantage in their professional  domain. Now in India #Me Too movement has gained sufficient strength with more and more victims venturing to tell their stories of sexual abuse and as a result many accused, mainly celebrities, have already been caught in #Me Too net. However, in most of the instances both the accused and the victims go to court to seek justice. In such cases we should wait till court pronounces its final verdict but nevertheless, in the mean time, admittedly, the stories of inappropriate sexual conduct made public is enough to do immense damage to the social status and professional careers of the victims.

In fine, the probability can’t be ruled out that in some instances of #Me Too allegations of sexual harassment might have been  slapped on the victim for some malicious intent or an episode of consensual sex  projected as sexual misbehaviour either. So each incident of sexual misconduct needs to be thoroughly probed without any preconceived opinion. However, it’s likely the #Me Too movement would help lessen the incidences of sexual harassment of women at work place or elsewhere.