By Reversing Gender Roles, Twitter User Makes A Perfect Point About Sexual Harassment

For a large chunk of our history, men have tried to oppress women by snatching away their voting rights, by not allowing them to work and by abusing them till they lost the will to fight. But women have always stood up, dusted themselves off and revolted against any and every form of oppression. The 21st century edition of that fight is the #MeToo movement.

Through the #MeToo movement, women have spoken about the harassment, sexual or otherwise, they’ve faced throughout their life. And given the magnanimity of the campaign, people are listening and acting upon such allegations. But there’s a vocal minority, comprised of mostly men, who are hell bent to derail this drive of positivity.

So, Julius Ghost decided to put all the misogynistic and sexists questions that men ask whenever a woman speaks up, with a Twitter thread.

Hi, guys. Imagine if one day you got kicked in the nuts, really hard, on purpose.

You doubled over. Felt the pain. Nearly passed out. Nearly puked.

Then you got kicked again. And again.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

The thread was probably in reaction to the Kavanaugh-Ford case, where Brett Kavanaugh was given the position of a Supreme Court judge, despite being accused of sexually harassing Dr. Ford. However, the analogy is applicable to the entire #MeToo movement because it answers the usual questions like, “why are you speaking up after so many years?”, “where is the evidence?”, and so on and so forth.

Julius used the comparison of being sexually harassed to being kicked in the nuts for years, to help men understand why their questions are so irrelevant.

1. Is the picture forming in your head?

Imagine you told your parents and they didn’t believe you.
Imagine they never mentioned it again.
You learned to keep quiet about it.
You learned to be scared.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

2. Normalising the process of kicking.

Imagine you became aware that women, including much older women—even elderly women—were always looking at your nuts. Women on the street would follow you. They’d tell you what a nice package you have. They’d tell you you’d be hot if you just showed off your nuts a little more.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

3. Would you be game to the ‘Smile. You look prettier when you smile’ remarks?

Imagine most of your friends all told you about getting kicked in the nuts.

Imagine none of them had ever told anybody else.

Imagine all the older girls at school would make jokes about kicking you in the nuts.

Imagine all the laughter. The jokes are all so funny.

Jokes.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

4. Because it’s always the victim’s fault, right? Or at least partially responsible?

Imagine you found a girlfriend, and you loved each other.

One night, you were fooling around and she kicked you as hard as she could in the nuts, and it all came rushing back.

Imagine she acted like obviously you wanted to be kicked in the nuts,mocked you for getting emotional.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

5. Would you be able to accept is “part of the system”?

Imagine there were laws that said that if a wife kicked her husband in the nuts it wasn’t assault.

Imagine you heard about men with ruptured testicles who had to pay for their own forensic reports

Imagine you saw statistics showing only 1% of kickings resulted in conviction.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

6. But what if the kicker is a “respectable” person?

Imagine if one day men all started talking about how almost all of them had, at one point or another, been kicked in the nuts.

Imagine if women’s main concern was what false accusation might do to their reputations, and whether this new honesty might ruin the mystery of sex.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

7. Would be laughing and saying “but it’s just a joke”?

Imagine she claimed the men accusing her were lying.

Imagine she said they were too ugly to kick.

Imagine there had never been a male president.

Imagine she ran against the first major-party male candidate.

Imagine he had experience, and she had none.

Imagine she won anyway.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

8. Would you call your kicker an “outspoken” person then?

Imagine the man who had been kicked testified, providing sworn testimony.

Imagine the judge gave an vindictive rant in response.

Imagine he was derided for providing no evidence.

Imagine if they looked for no evidence.

Imagine the judge was given an op-ed to explain herself.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

9. Here comes the toughest part.

Now imagine that being kicked in the nuts might result in you having to create, in your body, a genetic replication of the person who kicked you.

And imagine that the judge intended to make sure you’d have to carry it.

Imagine that was the *reason* she was chosen.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

10. Word of wisdom.

By the way it's 100% insane that this issue seems to require an analogy to draw a sharper focus on how wrong our society presently is, but here were are.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 6, 2018

Is it clear now? Or does the analogy have to be even more blunt to get through to you?

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