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Article Evaluation
I evaluated the Weinstein effect article because it is relate to the MeToo movement. There were a few sentences that I thought were not completely relevant to the article topic, particularly one that mentions the death of Roger Ailes. The article is relatively neutral as it addresses the both the accused and the accusers (Asia Argento was an accuser who was later accused). I think one viewpoint/section that can be elaborated more on is the analysis section. There can be more content about how people were reacting to the firings and accusations. The citation links do work and they support the article. There is one reference that is biased. It is a Vox article defending Asia Argento's accusations because survivors don't have to be "perfect." The talk page of the article has a lot of conversations about potential bias in the article. There is one strongly worded comment about the article being gender-biased against males. However, the comment appears to be biased itself seeing as it was written in a very unprofessional manner in caps lock. This article is a C-class article. It is a part of a few wiki projects, including crime and sexuality. We haven't addressed this topic in class yet, so I don't have any comments on whether it differs from the way we have talked about it in class.

Here is the evaluation that I left on the article's talk page.

Article Selection
Pussyhat - This is currently a stub that is a part of multiple WikiProjects. While it is not of major importance, I think it can be improved because there could be more detail about the impact of the hat and how it relates to the Women's March (which is what it stemmed from). There can also be more detail about how it was discouraged from being used in later Women's Marches and how that contributed to the evolution of what is addressed in Women's Marches.

2019 Women's March - This is part of multiple WikiProjects, and is rated as mid-importance for some of them. This can be improved because the 2019 Women's March had a lower turnout compared to the previous two. I think more can be contributed to why the turnout decreased and how it fits in the bigger movement. There can also be more elaborated on how the controversies surrounding the organizations involved with the marches have affected the greater Women's March movement.

= Hashtag Activism Draft Edits =

Awareness
#MuteRKelly The #MuteRKelly is a social media campaign founded by Kenyette Barnes and Oronike Odeleye and Twitter hashtag that started trending in the summer of 2017 in light of the Buzzfeed article about R. Kelly's alleged sex cult. It has been used to draw attention to several sexual abuse allegations against him over the course of nearly 20 years and called for music services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube to cut ties with the singer. As a result, while Spotify still has Kelly's music available in its library, it no longer promotes them to its subscribers.

#HimToo
The #HimToo, also referred to as the Him Too movement is a Twitter hashtag that refers to the social media campaign against false rape allegation. The #HimToo hashtag was first started by a mother of a Navy vet who claimed on Twitter that her son “won't go on solo dates due to the current climate of false sexual accusations by radical feminists with an axe to grind.” The tweet was soon deleted, but the hashtag itself still went viral and is used to bring attention to false accusations of rape against men. It was further popularized after the Kavanaugh hearings. #HimToo is often seen as a backlash and a direct contradiction to the #MeToo movement because of its focus on defending the accused instead of the victims of rape and sexual violence. Criticism of the #HimToo hashtag centers around the fact that #HimToo over exaggerates the occurrence of false rape allegations, which in turn can hurt the victims.

#OccupyWallStreet
Main Article: Occupy Wall Street

In July 2011, activist group Adbusters created the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet to encourage people to occupy the streets of Manhattan and protest against economic inequality. By October 2011, permutations of the hashtag such as #OccopyBoston, #OccupyDenver, and #OccupySD began coming up to call for action in other cities. The hashtag quickly spread worldwide and became a symbol of worldwide resistance against financial inequality, sometimes merging with anti-government movements.

#ArabSpring
Main article: #ArabSpring

The #ArabSpring is twitter hashtag used in anti-government protests across the Middle East in 2010. The hashtag #ArabSpring came into popularity after the Tahrir Square Protest on 25 January 2011. The Tahrir Square Protest soon led to a series of other protests from Middle East to North Africa, and became known as Arab Spring. Protests under the banner of #ArabSpring are organised through Twitter and other social media such as Facebook and YouTube. This movement achieved considerable global recognition, with related hashtag #eygpt becoming Twitter’s top hashtag in 2011. Despite initial widespread success, the longterm results of the #ArabSpring movement is mixed: while on the one hand, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is forced to resign, other more repressive governments took his place.

Criticism [edit]
Hashtag activism has been criticized by some as a form of slacktivism. Chris Wallace, George Will, and Brit Hume of Fox News commented that hashtag activism was a "useless exercise in self esteem and that ... I do not know how adults stand there, facing a camera, and say, 'Bring back our girls.' Are these barbarians in the wilds of Nigeria supposed to check their Twitter accounts and say, 'Uh oh, Michelle Obama is very cross with us, we better change our behavior'?" The ease of hashtag activism has led to concerns that it might lead to overuse and public fatigue. Critics worry that hashtag activism allows participants to be satisfied with a public symbol of concern, rather than actually be concerned and take additional action.

'''The ease of hashtag activism can also create other problems. David Carr commented in Hashtag Activism, and Its Limits on the rapid and ephemeral nature of hashtag activism. This creates what he coins a “‘favoriting’ fatigue,” when one movement leads to another in a short span of time, which results in all the movements getting blended together. When this happens, the distinctive goals of each particular movements become unclear, as there are too many movements to keep track of simultaneously.'''

Other criticism for hashtag activism includes the argument that online social movements are often started by privileged individuals, rather than by those who the causes are supposed to help. Critics will often use the Kony 2012 movement as an example, as the film was directed by an American film and theater director. People also believe that hashtag activism lacks the passion displayed by movements that preceded it.

Notable critics of hashtag activism include Sarah Palin, who in regards to the Boko Harem abductions and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, wrote in a caption:

Palin is one of many critics who believe hashtag activism to be lazy and inefficient. Malcolm Gladwell, in an article titled “Small Change: Why the Revolution will Not be Tweeted,” has also criticized hashtag activism for lacking the close ties he felt was necessary to inspire large action.

Another critic is the Nigerian-American writer, Teju Cole, who argued that hashtag activism for #BringBackOurGirls actually oversimplified and sentimentalized the issue, and stated:

"For four years, Nigerians have tried to understand these homicidal monsters. Your new interest (thanks) simplifies nothing, solves nothing."

Sarah Palin and Teju Cole both believe hashtag activism is a form of slacktivism, where it only has people talk about the situation, but no real action is being done to solve the issue.

= Him Too Movement Draft Edits =

History
The meaning of the #HimToo hashtag has constantly changed throughout the course of its existence. When it was first used before 2015, #HimToo had no political meaning attached to it. It was simply an acknowledgement to the participation or presence of a male in an activity.


 * 1) HimToo first began to carry a political connotation in 2016. However, it was still not used for issues regarding rape allegations or gender related issues. Instead, it was a way of showing support for Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, Hillary Clinton’s running-mate in the 2016 Presidential Election. During that time period, the hashtag #ImWithHer referred to Clinton, while #HimToo was connected to Kaine.  Eventually, Donald Trump’s supporters used the same hashtag #HimToo to criticize Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, using #LockHerUp followed by #HimToo.


 * 1) HimToo became connected with rape allegations following the emergence of the #MeToo movement. Initially, #HimToo was used by male victims of sexual abuse. The hashtag became increasingly popular, especially after actress Asia Argento, one of the major leaders of the #MeToo movement, was accused of sexually assaulting men.

During the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings, the #HimToo hashtag was re-popularized in defense of Kavanaugh. People used the #HimToo hashtag to express support for Kavanaugh and to criticize women who allegedly gave false rape accusations. The hashtag then evolved and became more generally used to defend men against false rape accusations. #HimToo became the anti-thesis to #MeToo as a call for fairness towards men during sexual assault hearings by asserting that men should not be implied as guilty before sexual assault hearings begin.

#HimToo Rally
On November 17, 2018, a rally attended by 200 people was held in downtown Portland, Oregon to express their support of victims of sexual assault in light of the #MeToo movement. A separate rally, hosted by Patriot Prayer member Haley Adams after the Kavanaugh hearing, supporting the #HimToo movement then began nearby. According to Adams, she along with about 40 others gathered to support men who are victims of false rape allegations arising from the #MeToo movement. After the rally, the #HimToo protesters allegedly started tossing bottles and flares, while counter-demonstrators allegedly threw smoke bombs. The opposing rallies ended in six arrests.

Lulu's Peer Review
Thank you for your specific feedback! We implemented all the grammar changes you suggested and identified more. As for the opinionated "victimizing" word in the #HimToo section, we changed it to "defending." That makes it more of an un-opinionated statement about the content of the tweets instead of a judgement on the content.

Tory's Peer Review
Thank you for your feedback! It appears that you were giving feedback regarding our old article, which was the one on Hashtag Activism. We have however switched to the Him Too Movement, which still covers a part of your feedback, which highlighted the following point:

"HimToo is summarised so well. Really great job. It captures a small timeline, the meaning of the movement, and where it’s coming from. Nice."

Thank you! We lifted over the same information onto the new page but with additional information on the movement.

Lulu's Peer Review for Him Too
Hello Lulu, and thanks for taking the time to write a very detailed and helpful response to our article. Here is how I plan to address the points that you have mentioned.

I think your suggestions to add sections on critique and support are very helpful. Currently we are including bits and pieces on support and critique in our History section, but I think it would be a good idea to separate them because they are also important on their own. Even more importantly, I am hoping that through separating those elements from the History section, I can also fix the flow problem that you addressed. The flow problem is very possibly due to that I tried to put too much content under History.

As for the quote that you addressed in the first paragraph under the History section, I will rewrite it so that it will be a summary of the original quote and not a direct quotation.

BSIIoIX's Peer Review
Thank you for your feedback! It appears that you were giving feedback to the existing article, not the additions that we made in this sandbox. However, they are excellent suggestions to how we can improve the original article. I'll address each of your comments point by point below.

Your lead section is very good because it states the most important information and gives a good overview about what the article is about.

Since we will add more to the article, we will expand the lead section to make sure it continues to give a good overview of the whole article.


 * I’d expand the section about its history because you basically just repeat what you say in the lead section.
 * This was the bulk of the edits we made in the draft. We added more information about the development of the hashtag and its changing meaning throughout the course of its existence.
 * correct the spelling in the media coverage section. It’s “hashtag” and not “hash tag”
 * This was a good catch! We will implement this change.

The section on its media coverage brings in very good background that also makes it easier to understand the impact of the movement.


 * Maybe consider putting the last and the second to last paragraph together since it is about the same case and it would make is easier for the reader to understand it. Iy you can come up with more example where the hashtag was used the better.
 * We will implement this change. The last paragraph is clearly related to the second to last paragraph and might have been separated due to a typo. The section is clearly missing more examples so we will do some research to add more information.
 * Add a link to the #MeToo movement in the “See also” section
 * Good catch! I'm surprised it is not already there. We will add it.