In 2017 a lot of my friends contributed to the MeToo hashtag. Friends who were still having panic attacks and avoided places where their rapist might be. Vulnerable friends who were still hurting put their pain out there in public in the hopes of creating a better future. While I greatly admire their courage, I’m afraid they gave their love to a movement that doesn’t love them back.

From the start, MeToo has been all about rich women. It sickens me to my stomach to see MeToo labelled a ‘success’ because rich men had their career ruined. I look at my friends and nothing has changed for them. Nothing. Their rapists hold the same jobs and social positions that they did before. Without 50.000 twitter followers, MeToo doesn’t bring any of the justice it claims to bring. Outside Hollywood, MeToo just exposes the victim to further public scrutiny while doing absolutely nothing against the perpetrators. More and more it feels like a spectacle for rich women which exploits the suffering of poor women for its viral success.

So it is 0% surprising to me that a big part of MeToo is so comfortable being the vehicle of the neoliberal feminism of the Democratic Party.