The Same Story BUT Two Different Stories
Within the past month and a half, women across the United States have began publicly sharing stories regarding their experiences with sexual harassment. These occurrences used to be a taboo in which people kept very private to avoid embarrassment. Yet a viral hashtag, #metoo has allowed victims to share their stories with fellow victims. This topic has sparked in today’s society as one of the most used hashtag on social media and people now feel comfortable sharing in order to spread awareness on this pressing issue. Those impacted by any form of harassment should not feel pressured to stay quiet in order to cope with the uncomfortable and horrifying events. This has transformed the world’s view on this issue and encouraged people to take appropriate actions to avoid these wrong doings. The following articles regarding this current event, present different side of this supposed one sided problem. The New York Times describes this #metoo as a tool towards social change and transforming the way people look at this topic. Females are gaining more improving recognition in the working environment as being strong and independent role models. Positive vibes are spread through words of encouragement and promote words of wisdom towards feminists across the world. Yet an article from the Huffington Post also linked below reports on the #metoo growth yet in a negative manner. Author Emily Peck writes that Sheryl Sandberg sees this as demoting women’s power and strength as pity stories searching for sympathy. #Metoo apparently has backlash which will make managers cautions when hiring women for fear of being accused of harassment. Despite the fact that both articles are about the same controversial topic the opposing language separates the two into taking different side of the issue. Peck uses language to make this movement seem monstrous and evil by attacking #metoo with negative comments and backlashes. Jessica Bennett who wrote the article for the NYT used positive and bubbly words to enforce this movement. This comes to show how much influence words have on a story disregarding the actual events. Media outlets use these stories in attempts to persuade mass amounts of people while keeping in the loop current topics. Certain articles present information worded differently in order to make their statements more convincing. The opposing descriptions of the hashtag "me too," come to show that these means of communication manipulation are true. #Metoo articles come to show how careful humans need to be before trusting articles considering the control and influence words can have on people.
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