As more women summoned up courage to name their sexual assaulters as part of #MeToo campaign, a counter-campaign #WeToo (MEN) was initiated, but apparently with little success, to reveal stories of men who were victim at the hands of women.
The WeToo's emergence suggest misconstruction of #MeToo as generally against men instead of what it actually is: to blow the whistle on sexual assaulters.
Reportedly, film maker Varahi has claimed tremendous response to the WeToo campaign, though no victim's version is available till now.
The vexation the MeToo movement has aroused in prominent personalities in the film industry was on display when veteran filmmaker P.Bharathiraja lost his cool when queried by a reporter about singer Chinmayi's charges against lyricist Vairamuthu.
What is MeToo?, the veteran queried.
"Did you see it?' (the assault), Bharathiraja went on saying he need proof and cannot react to speculations.
Veteran actor Radha Ravi, who was named by a victim as her harasser, chose to ridicule the movement evoking laughter from a gathering he was addressing.
"Just like that a girl dropped my name and went away," he quipped.
However, anger and laughers apart, more women mustered courage to come out publicly against their harassers.
Independent filmmaker and poet, Leena Manimekalai joined the MeToo campaign lately by revealing the sexual harassment she faced at the hands of director Susi Ganesan.
In a tweet she said, Movement has been emboldening lot of women to share their experiences of sexual harrassment in workplaces, worldwide. That emboldened me also to share one of my traumatic experiences in my facebook page.
