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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 74 Bitchin' 4: the MeToo backlash

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's Saturday Bitchin' and this time our Mick needs to vent about the (inevitable) backlash to the #MeToo movement. But don't worry, she's also solved the problem of the patriarchy – as long as no one (Hannah) gets too distracted by David Bowie's crotch, Friends or He-Man.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. And the standard issue for all women.

0:43.0

Can we just stop for a moment and let me bitch about the backlash to the Me Too movement and how it's really making my tits itch?

0:49.0

We certainly can.

0:50.0

Thanks.

0:52.0

It's just three months since the Me Too hashtag crashed through social media

0:55.6

like that boulder in Raiders of the Lost Arc, taking out the rich, famous and

0:59.2

powerful as it went, revealing that pretty much every woman has a story to tell when it comes to harassment.

1:04.0

Women who'd never felt able to speak up before started talking.

1:07.0

A hashtag became a roar, became a movement, became a wake-up call, became a sea change of solidarity.

1:13.0

Well, said the power that has always been,

1:16.0

we can't have that, can we?

1:18.0

Oh no.

1:19.0

I'm not saying me too is without problems, by the way.

1:21.0

It's not.

1:22.0

The almost elatacious consumption of these

1:24.0

women's stories of abuse was discomfiting to say the least but the backlash which

1:28.5

was sadly predictable has got its focus all skew with because what the conversation has fast become is

1:34.4

what about the poor bullied men?

1:36.9

Seriously, will no one think of the careers lost for want of a yes?

1:41.0

Having your arsepitched is not the same as being raped they holler and they're right.

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