Abstract
Men’s responses to #MeToo range from enthusiastic support to hostile backlash. There are common forms of resistance among men to campaigns relating to gender-based violence, including defensive denials that men’s violence is routine (#NotAllMen), counter-calls to address women’s violence against men, and complaints that #MeToo has ‘gone too far’ and become a ‘witch-hunt’. And for many men, there is simply mute discomfort. Masculinity is implicated directly in men’s perpetration of rape and sexual harassment, but also in men’s widespread inaction or complicity and their too-easy condemnation of ‘other men’. At the same time, #MeToo has prompted valuable public scrutiny of the narrow and dangerous ideals of masculinity which inform men’s violence. This chapter seeks to analyze men’s responses to the #MeToo movement and asks how can men be inspired and mobilized to support change?
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The figures for women were 23% and 37%, respectively.
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Flood, M. (2019). Men and #MeToo: Mapping Men’s Responses to Anti-violence Advocacy. In: Fileborn, B., Loney-Howes, R. (eds) #MeToo and the Politics of Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15213-0_18
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