METOO Definition & Meaning

MeToo

Also #MeToo
Or Me Too

[mee-too]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a social media hashtag of solidarity used by survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault in a public disclosure of a past or current personal experience in order to demonstrate the prevalence of abuse.
I never reported my boss because I couldn’t afford to lose my job. #MeToo
a social movement drawing attention to sexual harassment, sexual assault, and other abuses of authority, especially those resulting from gendered power imbalances in social institutions.
MeToo is revealing the tragic common thread in the lives of Hollywood stars, short-order cooks, soldiers, prisoners, students, etc.—no corner of society is immune to this epidemic of abuse.

adjective

relating to or noting this social movement: a powerful #MeToo spokesperson;
the MeToo era;
a powerful #MeToo spokesperson;
the Me Too backlash.

verb (used with object)

MeToo’d, MeTooed, MeTooing.

to identify or accuse (one’s abuser) publicly in a claim of sexual harassment or sexual assault: Everyone warned her that MeTooing the chair of her dissertation committee would ruin her academic career.
How should celebrities who’ve been MeToo’d make amends and start over?
Everyone warned her that MeTooing the chair of her dissertation committee would ruin her academic career.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of MeToo¹

Coined in 2006 by Tarana Burke, African American civil rights activist (born 1973)

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In our post-#MeToo landscape, rife with “you can’t say that” sensibilities, some “Spaceballs”-style gags might fall flat.

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Ms Haley eventually decided to come forward after other women accused Weinstein of assault, helping to galvanise the #MeToo movement.

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Weinstein had become “the poster boy, the original sinner, for the #MeToo movement,” he added.

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Despite almost a decade of the #MeToo movement, the women testifying against Combs are on trial just as much as he is, and just as much as Sawyer was 232 years ago.

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There was an immense amount of public hunger in 2022 to forget all the lessons of the #MeToo movement, and instead fall back into the comfortable belief that sexism is a myth, women just make up stories for attention, and it's accused men who are the real victims.

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