by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
One of the benefits of age is you have perspective on life. This is often called…uhh…wisdom? A lot of men are very angry over the #MeToo movement, but to me it’s kind of like the tertiary layer sepearting the age of dinosaurs with the age of mammals. Sometimes things change rather abruptly in culture and you either sink or swim.
Of course, a lot of this has to do with women’s changing views on the power dynamic between themselves and men in the workplace. Trump being in power had a lot to with it, I think. Women are kind of angry in general because there’s a misogynist in office. Maybe the #MeToo movement gives them a sense of agency that they might otherwise not feel politically.
But having said all that, the issue is, what is the deal with the music industry? There was that whole thing between producer Dr. Luke and Kesha…but then nothing. It seems only logical that women in the music industry would have their own revolt against men who abused their power over them in that industry.
I just don’t know enough about the internal workings of the music industry to know what the hold up is. But when it happens, it’s likely to be rather spectacular. Some pretty powerful men have been felled by the #MeToo movement, so in a sense no one is safe.
The sooner we all accept that and the consequences of #MeToo, the better.
