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[edit]- If an American factory worker or a Mexican victim of sexual assault tries to call out an individual perpetrator, and maybe even a broader culture of abuse, she cannot count on powerful women and allies to come to her aid. Often, the abuse goes unpunished and the broader culture of harassment unchanged.
“I can see people looking at a high-profile case and saying, ‘I would never get this kind of support just for speaking up against person X, who is in my social network but doesn’t have any high social standing,’” Dr. Khan said.
- Amanda Taub. "#MeToo Paradox: Movement Topples the Powerful, Not the Ordinary". New York Times, (Feb. 11, 2019).
- Underprivileged women in many developing countries may be even more vulnerable to the costs of a damaged reputation.
In India or Pakistan, for instance, a woman who is poor and uneducated, and who lacks the mobility or connections that would allow her to leave her community, may fear that revealing she has been raped or assaulted could harm her marriage prospects.
“Those costs are not just material costs,” Dr. Khan said. “They are these kinds of status costs that are harder to quantify.”
- Amanda Taub. "#MeToo Paradox: Movement Topples the Powerful, Not the Ordinary". New York Times, (Feb. 11, 2019).