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by MsMowz 3135 days ago
It is nice to see comeuppance for those who used their position to hurt others. I'm hopeful that the past few weeks lead to a new culture where victims do not fear retribution for speaking out or going to authorities, but I fear that without a concerted effort to make that happen things will go back to normal and this will just be a blip.
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Its unlikely that people who are inclined to abuse their power this way will not notice. Its been a media blitz, and its astonishing how prevalent this kind of behavior has been so far. Hopefully it will at least make the abusers think twice, but more importantly, I hope it will empower the victims to speak out and not feel like its been their fault.
> Its been a media blitz, and its astonishing how prevalent this kind of behavior has been so far.

Given how many people have spoken up at #meetoo, it's really not astonishing. What's astonishing is that this has been ignored for so long.