#metoo

Yeah well, #metoo. Name a woman who hasn't been sexually harassed. It's everyone.
The thing is, when you expose structural sexism, what you do about it. According to my brother, who did a lot of economics at one point, there are two types of services: ones that aren't diminished if more people are using them (you don't really care how many other people are in the cinema with you) and ones that are. If the value to the people in the cinema is not diminished, then you may as well sell off the rest of the movie tickets at half price because the people who paid full price won't really care and you'll make more money.
I kind of see prejudice like this. I have a lot of privilege. There are parts of my privilege where everyone else having that too will not disadvantage me. I will not hurt if everyone else gets fed. We can generate a lot of seed, food is grown with air, water, soil and sunshine, which are mostly abundant or free. There is not a limited pool of food. We can grow more. If we were to grow enough food and distribute it efficiently so that everyone in the world was fed, I would live in a better world. I would be happier. My privilege would be greater if it were extended to all.
I grew up listening to Aretha Franklin, like a lot of other white people. She soothed me. I paid (and still pay) money to buy her songs. It does not disadvantage me if other people listen to her music and love it as well. Every person in the world could listen to her music and that would not affect me.
But. It does disadvantage me if other Arethas are out there being oppressed out of singing. If there are children being bullied and shot and ostracised for being black, that will disadvantage me. They may have contributed to the world in a way that I would have benefitted from, socially. My privilege is the lesser where others are held back.
And #metoo is about sexism. There are great challenges facing our world. Women who have been raped, like me, can take years of our lives to heal. It can affect every single one of our future partners. It holds us back. And we cannot contribute as we would have. Holding us back, stamping on us, smashing us, ostracising us, and constraining us under glass ceilings does not increase the privilege of men. Rather, it stops the world. We need people who can end wars, restore justice, be global systems engineers, design the next generation of technology, invent batteries, understand climate science, work with satellites, prevent people from becoming refugees and yes, end rape and sexual harassment. Women will do this. I dunno why I believe in us, but I do. We need women to step up and participate in our lives. Our full lives.
We have allowed men to exist in a mythical world where they believe their wellbeing is enhanced by diminishing ours. That is not true. Men and women are two sides of a great coin. You cannot diminish the value of only one side of a coin. The whole coin is devalued. Our job is clearly not to harm each other. What if we shone each other up a little instead?