city of Mexico.-Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska related this Wednesday the movement #Metoocon the death of the musician Armando Vega Gil and warned that the phenomenon “is passed from tuest e’, an expression that comes to see that the movement is still excessive. On Twitter, the author noted that accusations of sexual harassment “silly and crazy can hurt the good name of a perfectly honest man,” referring to the bassist of the band Botellita de Jerez, who allegedly committed suicide on Monday following a complaint in against. In his publication, he explained that, although she is a feminist, it hurts the suicide of Vega, concerning a 13 year old girl with an anonymous complaint of alleged sexual harassment of bassist.
The accusation of sexual harassment to silly and crazy can hurt the good name of a perfectly honest man. I’m feminist but hurts me the suicide of Armando Vega Gil by an anonymous complaint. -Elena Poniatowska (@Eponiatowska) April 3, 2019 writer quoted also in one of your Tweets feminist Marta Lamas, who said, is right “to say that we were wrong to accommodate anonymous complaints and said that the #Metoo movement has” come too far “and becomes toast”. He said that the accusation that led to the suicide of Gil Vega is false and cited to the musician, who had stated that it was correct that “women raise the voice to make that change our rotten world”. The issue of sexual harassment to Mexican women has also reached the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in the morning ruled in this regard and called for “not hide anything”.
It is a good topic to treat (…) is delicate, but we cannot hide nothing, have to ventilate all, said the President.
#Metoo movement appeared with force in the country in the middle of March then that female workers in the world of music, literature, and journalism to denounce cases of abuse by men. Since March 21, the Communicator Ana Ge reported via his Twitter account that “a powerful man of the literary circle”, whom he later identified as Herson Barona, had manipulated, pregnant and abandoned more than 10 women. It was from this accusation that many women were encouraged to report several cases, using the #MeToo that emerged at the end of 2017 in United States to report harassment and sexual abuse from the producer of Hollywood Harvey Weinstein.Las in the social network allegations struck in the cultural world and led to the suicide of the bassist for the Mexican band Botellita de Jerez, Armando Vega Gil who was also a writer of children’s and youth books. A day of that prestunamente committed suicide, emerged a new Twitter account for reporting sexual assaults living men in Mexico, officially opening the #MeTooHombres movement.
Hello! due to the damage that has caused the @metoomusicamx account, we thought that it should level things. All men who have received harassment DM”, says the profile of @MeTooMenPower.
Its emergence unleashed criticism from hundreds of netizens, who catalogued them misogynists and “idiots without empathy”.
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