Views of sexual assault following #MeToo: The role of gender and individual differences

Szekeres, Hanna; Shuman, Eric; Saguy, Tamar

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110203

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“…A large field of research has developed that sheds light on the global development of the #MeToo-movement ( 38 – 51 ). This emerging field is diverse and includes analyses of #MeToo-appeals ( 52 ), how managers and management teams have dealt with intra-organizational accusations of sexual harassment ( 53 ), effects of #MeToo on attitudes toward sexual assault ( 54 ), on reporting workplace sexual harassment ( 55 ), and effects in specific work sectors ( 56 ).…”

Section: #Metoo and Women With Experiences Of Criminalization And Sub...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Me too! A case study of gendered victimization and feminist development in a Swedish peer support organization for people with experiences of criminalization and substance abuse

Bäcklin

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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Even if peer support is commonly defined as horizontal in contrast to the more hierarchical relationship between client and professional, peer support is not free from power dynamics. This article considers feminist organizing in the context of peer support for people with experiences of criminalization and substance abuse and addresses questions of (un)equal peer support, sexual victimization, (re)integration, and organizational change in the #MeToo era. Drawing on qualitative interviews with support organization representatives and discussion material from a study circle and a men’s group, this article analyses one organization’s framing of, and responses to, allegations of sexual victimization of female members, and their ongoing work toward increased equality. The study shows that a number of measures have been taken in the organization in order to give voice to women whose lives are affected by crime, imprisonment, violence, and drug abuse. Interview participants put strong emphasis on the need to counteract what is described as a “macho culture” embedded in the peer support organization (PESO), which is seen as repeating structures of masculinity and power from the previous criminal lifestyle as well as reproducing specific gendered vulnerabilities. The organization’s patriarchal structure is understood as connected to a culture of silence that has allowed for sexism and marginalization of female members to continue. The women’s lived experiences of trauma within peer support practices and their struggles to redefine the foundations of their organization emphasizes the lived gendered emotionality of peer support, and uncovers how power structures can be challenged by putting the gendered lived experiences of women with a history of criminalization and substance abuse in the center of ex-offender peer support.

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Section: #Metoo and Women With Experiences Of Criminalization And Sub...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Me too! A case study of gendered victimization and feminist development in a Swedish peer support organization for people with experiences of criminalization and substance abuse

Bäcklin

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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“…Despite the ongoing barriers to progress, change in response to MeToo has been documented. For example, one study found a decrease in the dismissal of sexual assault among both men and women in the United States in the months following the MeToo “peak” (Szekeres et al, 2020). In addition, Google searches in the United States related to reporting sexual harassment/assault and prevention training for sexual harassment/assault increased significantly (30% and 51%, respectively) between October 2017 and June 2018, suggesting some mobilization in response to the movement (Caputi et al, 2019).…”

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“…Part of the original TMT literature focused on monetary fines assigned to women who were purportedly engaging in illegal sex work, where reminders of death led both judges and laypeople alike to hand out harsher fiscal punishments (Rosenblatt et al, 1989). Given that the MeToo movement led to a decrease in dismissive attitudes toward sexual assault among both men and women (Szekeres et al, 2020), it would follow that priming the MeToo movement, especially when coupled with salient mortality, would lead to a desire for increased restitution to survivors of sexual assault, along with increased punishments for perpetrators.…”

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Fetch the bolt cutters: The existential labor and liberation of #MeToo.

Williamson¹,

Courtney²,

Goldenberg³

2022

The Humanistic Psychologist

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The MeToo movement saturated popular discourse with reminders of the ubiquity of sexual aggression and harassment targeting women and, by extension, the heightened literal and symbolic vulnerability of inhabiting a female-coded body. The movement also provides opportunities for accessing social connections and collective identity, reclaiming a sense of agency, and pursuing meaningful change. We argue that both the threatening and affirming aspects of MeToo have inherent existential implications that warrant theoretical and empirical exploration. To begin this line of inquiry, we first map aspects of the MeToo movement to five major existential concerns (death, isolation, identity, freedom, and meaning), delineating the existentially activating and ameliorating potential of the movement. Adapting paradigms used in terror management theory research, we then present experimental avenues for testing each of these hypothesized connections.

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“…One longitudinal analysis of Google search trends indicated #MeToo sparked information seeking on sexual assault and sexual harassment, and this trend was sustained beyond peaks associated with public accusations against high-profile figures (Kaufman et al, 2021). Findings from another longitudinal study revealed that dismissal of sexual assault allegations (i.e., expressing the belief that the increasing number of reports of sexual assault are due to false allegations or that women make allegations to harm men) decreased among both women and men after the popularization of #MeToo (Szekeres et al, 2020).…”

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“Consent Is F#@king Required”: Hashtag Feminism Surrounding Sexual Consent in a Culture of Postfeminist Contradictions

Kettrey

Davis

Liberman

2021

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Hashtag feminism exists in a time of postfeminist contradictions marked by the simultaneous existence of popular feminism and popular misogyny. In one such contradiction, popular feminism has led women to expect the successful negotiation of sexual consent, while popular misogyny permits the circulation of traditional sexual scripts that disregard the necessity of consent. In this study, we analyze messages conveyed through digitized narratives of sexual consent posted on Tumblr, a social media site that is popular among feminist activists, to identify the ways that users construct meaning around the dissonance between expectations for consent and the inequalities that inhibit its negotiation. We specifically explore whether hashtag feminism navigates postfeminist contradictions in a way that simultaneously calls out misogyny and calls on feminism. We find that the Tumblr posts in our sample did both, albeit in a manner that failed to offer tangible solutions to the problem at hand. Calls on feminism were largely limited to tagging feminist allies and recirculating existing feminist campaigns. Thus, we argue that the hashtag ultimately became a handoff to a larger feminist abstraction. Future research should explore conditions under which activists link tangible issues, actors, and agendas to an otherwise abstract popular feminism.

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Views of sexual assault following #MeToo: The role of gender and individual differences

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Me too! A case study of gendered victimization and feminist development in a Swedish peer support organization for people with experiences of criminalization and substance abuse

Me too! A case study of gendered victimization and feminist development in a Swedish peer support organization for people with experiences of criminalization and substance abuse

Fetch the bolt cutters: The existential labor and liberation of #MeToo.

“Consent Is F#@king Required”: Hashtag Feminism Surrounding Sexual Consent in a Culture of Postfeminist Contradictions

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