Gabrielle Union critiques the #MeToo movement: I think the floodgates have opened for white women

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Not to diminish anyone’s trauma, but the voices of black women and women of color need to be heard just as loudly and clearly in this discussion of rape culture and consequences for abusers. And right now, Union said, “I think the floodgates have opened for white women.” She continued: “I don’t think it’s a coincidence whose pain has been taken seriously. Whose pain we have showed historically and continued to show. Whose pain is tolerable and whose pain is intolerable. And whose pain needs to be addressed now.”

It’s no coincidence that the only new account of coercion that Weinstein attempted to refute—from rehab, no less—was Lupita Nyong’o’s. As The Root’s Ida Harris writes, “sexual violence is projected onto black girls at a higher rate than it is onto other races and ethnicities,” citing the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. But the media affords only a fraction of the airtime or digital ink to telling those stories: “For black girls, there is no black collective rallying against these crimes. There is no public shaming or takedown of sexual violators, because society gives zero fucks, and the black community protects its villains and devalues its girls.”

https://www.avclub.com/gabrielle-union-critiques-the-metoo-movement-i-think-1821129134

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1. We aren't having a serious discussion about it.