#NotMe: Why I Won't Be Sharing #MeToo
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/notme-wont-sharing-metoo/
When the #MeToo movement hit Facebook last month - following the allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein and other members of the Hollywood community - I spent a lot of time wondering if I should share the hashtag. The alleged actions of these Hollywood scumbags were abhorrent to me, and I felt for their victims and wanted to offer my support in any way I could. But I couldn't help thinking: #MeToo just doesn't apply to me. It's not that I've never had an unpleasant sexually charged encounter, and it's not that I'm afraid to speak up. It's just that, well, nothing that's happened to me has ever come close - has ever even been in the same ballpark - to rape. ...

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence