Matt Schembechler, son of the University of Michigan's legendary football coach, Bo Schembechler, says that he was sexually abused by a former team doctor being investigated by the school and that his father knew and did nothing.
The son of the University of Michigan's legendary football coach, Bo Schembechler, alleged Thursday that he was sexually abused by a former team doctor being investigated by the school and that his father knew and did nothing.
The state of the movement: MeToo One week s news reveals revolutionary strength.
By Virginia Heffernan Los Angeles Times March 8, 2021 11:12am Text size Copy shortlink:
Movements are not trending topics. They re not celebrity scandals that excite the mediasphere like brush fires. They are paradigm shifts, and they do their work through legislation, court proceedings, disciplinary measures and the evolution of social hierarchies, political power and the allocation of capital.
In 2006, when Twitter hashtags didn t exist, the activist Tarana Burke coined MeToo to promote solidarity among survivors of sexual violence, especially women of color. Her term succinctly described a formidable campaign f
Movements are not trending topics. They’re not celebrity scandals that excite the mediasphere like brush fires. They are paradigm shifts, and they do their work through legislation, court proceedings, disciplinary measures and the evolution of social hierarchies, political power and the allocation of capital.
In 2006, when Twitter hashtags didn’t exist, the activist Tarana Burke coined Me Too to promote solidarity among survivors of sexual violence, especially women of color. Her term succinctly described a formidable campaign far more powerfully than “fight the patriarchy” does. Patriarchy describes the rigid top of a power structure; Me Too describes a dynamic grass-roots threat to it.