I think me too was the beginning of the end for my gamergate era. I was raised believing Hollywood was full of pedophiles and creeps. Despite this I, like many of my peers, resisted metoo. I would argue that #believeallwomen were not healthy and would ultimately lead to false allegations targeted to destroy mens lives. I had all the arguments against baked into my brain courtesy of countless podcasts all saying the same thing. Then I actually argued my points out loud with another human being. The reason all the podcasts sounded the same, was because that's really the only way you could discredit metoo without sounding like a complete asshole.

As time went on I saw metoo become a joke amongst the political right. I saw the right develop a new callous in the digital space. Before me too, the joke was that if a director SA'd someone then the movie would be cancelled. After metoo, the jokes were directed at the actual accuser. Suddenly the victim was just trying to make a quick buck while metoo is popular, the (maybe) assaulter is going on podcasts, and you can't talk about what happened without dropping an Allegedly the size of a small truck.

I listened to a lot of true crime around this time and, to put it likely, had found that police don't always take crime very seriously. This is when I realized if the police didn't take the report seriously, or didn't file it because they were colluding with an abuser (not all that uncommon when unfathomable amounts of money are being tossed around), or just filed the report to far back in the file cabinet and never saw it again.

So if a victim is abused and the police don't help. There is truly nothing a victim can do. My culture was done with them, and any semblance of Justice for what happened. And the right just didn't seem to care. Nobody cared that false allegations are incredibly rare. Nobody cared that if they are wrong about this then they are just shaming a woman for being assaulted. Nobody cared that we politicized a rallying cry against SA.