The Impact From The Me Too Movement

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]The Me Too movement exploded across every industry on Earth. For the first 18 months, the movement produced the outcomes its supporters hoped for.

[00:00:08]Federal and state prosecutors convicted real predators. Corporate boards rewrote harassment policies. Women who had been held to decadesl long non-disclosure agreements began breaking those agreements in public. Gallup polling in 2018 showed roughly 58% of Americans viewed the broader phenomenon of calling people out on social media as a legitimate form of accountability. Only 38% viewed it as unjust punishment. That 20 point gap from 2018 was the high watermark of public support for cancel culture as an accountability mechanism.

[00:00:40]And no subsequent pole has ever returned the number to that height.