#MeToo and the Myth of Millennial Fragility

How a movement to call out abusers became a debate about sexual agency

Emily J. Smith
Human Parts
Published in
12 min readMar 18, 2019

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MyMy first real use-case for the internet was asking Jeeves how to give a blow job. For those who have no bells ringing, Ask Jeeves was the Google of the ’90s. Back then, it was far too abstract to search for something on the “internet”—what even was the internet? Far better…

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Emily J. Smith
Human Parts

Writer and tech professional. My debut novel, NOTHING SERIOUS, is out Feb '25 from William Morrow / HarperCollins (more at emjsmith.com).