Not the Onion: Sign Honoring Civil War Hero Is Sexual Harassment, Mass. State Rep. Says ?????!!!!!
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A Democratic lawmaker in Massachusetts adopted the “Me Too” slogan, suggesting that a sign honoring a Civil War hero above the entrance to the Massachusetts State House constitutes an act of sexual harassment.
“R U a ‘General Hooker’? Of course not! Yet the main entrance of the Mass State House says otherwise. #MeToo,” State Rep. Michelle Du Bois (D-Brockton) tweeted Wednesday. She suggested that the #MeToo movement is “not all about rape & harassment but also women’s dignity. A ‘funny’ double entendres misrepresented as respect for a long dead general?”
The #MeToo movement began on Twitter, where women who had suffered sexual harassment or assault at the hands of men identified themselves as victims. The movement brought to light many sexual abusers, most notoriously Harvey Weinstein and former Olympic doctor Larry Nasser. By claiming the movement for herself in this context, Du Bois effectively accused a sign of sexual harassment.
If this weren’t clear enough, the lawmaker went on to tell the State House News Service, “Literally, the sign and the jokes about it both constitute what the House is voting on as discriminatory harassment.”
When a Twitter user suggested Du Bois resign over the tweet, she responded, “No way.”
“Ive [sic] seen teenboys tease teengirls about being ‘general hookers’ waiting in line at the entrance,” the state rep responded.
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