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'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

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Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'

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Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.

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Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing.

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What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

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If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance.

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Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it.

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When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

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For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it.

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Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: September 12th, 1973

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