Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo
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Sexual Abuse - The Butterfly Effect
High quality journalism touched off this movement, followed by survivors in the millions taking to social media airwaves. We had Ashley Judd's willingness to be named as reported by the New York Times then the New Yorker setting off the butterfly effect. This I am saying has made it be real. Now women have been talking with each other about this outrage for millennia. Social media could have been just one more digital echo chamber in which a million whispers of sexual abuse went to die. Although law is embedded in culture and can and will change with it. Over the past couple of years, survivors in numbers and in beautiful diversity, actually I didn't know the collective name for butterflies until I looked it up.
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