**TL;DR The #MeToo movement needs to focus on creating social change for the future. The movement should be reformed with an emphasis on creating cultural changes to prevent the same injustices from occurring in the future, ending the cycle of people being afraid to speak up about sexual abuse.** Despite the great things that the #MeToo movement has achieved, it lacks any clear actions for preventing the events that it is currently battling from happening in the future. The movement must create cultural change as well as find ways to support legal justice that could lead to punishment for sexual perpetrators and rapists. The current emphasis of the movement is still on the law, which handles individual cases via either conciliation or charges. Though I agree this is the best action for the movement in the *short term*, it equally needs to focus on creating social changes for the *long term*. The legal process is unable to generate complete action: conciliation of cases does not allocate blame, so is not a change agent and if charges are laid, the process often also damages the complainant, as they are questioned and often shamed, even if they win. [1] While these responses are needed in the short term, they are not effective at driving the cultural and gendered power changes we need to be promoting and educating. The movement needs to work on creating wider political action and large campaigns for change, as this is the only thing that will be able to change the future of speaking out against sexual assault. In order to be serious about the abuse of gender-based power, we must look at its causes and make structural and cultural changes that can be implemented and create change for future generations. Girls are still subliminally being taught to be meek and mild in their childhood learning. A study by Lin Bian for the *Science* journal highlights that by age 6, girls start to characterize themselves differently to boys, no longer identifying themselves as being brilliant or having the capacity for brilliance (where the boys continued to identify themselves as "really, really, smart"). [2] The longer-term effects of these characterizations are that girls are less likely to have the confidence to speak up for themselves and this therefore will allow the cycle that the #MeToo movement is trying to supress, to continue. #MeToo must reform to overcome the serious, widespread gender-biased socialisation of boys and girls which still continues. #MeToo has always been about raising awareness of the prevalence and impacts of sexual violence, creating great change on individual cases through legal action. It however needs reform in order to continue to create social change that is truly effective in the future, as this will theoretically lessen the amount of people who are afraid to speak out and will educate the next generation on sexual assault/violence and why it’s wrong. Always using the law, even if that law is based on already existing rights, does not create the serious social change to attitudes or power that needs to be implemented for future generations. [1] ‘#MeToo is not enough: it has yet to shift the power imbalances that would bring about gender equality’, (https://theconversation.com/metoo-is-not-enough-it-has-yet-to-shift-the-power-imbalances-that-would-bring-about-gender-equality-92108) [2] ‘'Good Girls Are Quiet': How Society Tells Our Daughters To Self-Silence’, (https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/yollanda-zhang/society-tells-girls-self-silence_a_23450724/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIRFJXz-v1vd9hlqMNnNS60k63e-zcDS0hisgSZKrMkr3fnRGAcZhIB1NGQEeskycZI6UGZTJtihVSM0oPEtw1Z5w28XzkPN22McmZFc4s0B-YiaTP4KnKxmUc5LQaGUZd9ZLxf_EC0DEGk0VBb_mBNsAHmoweAd-dj5RfwMZzJ1)

**The #MeToo movement needs to be more inclusive in order to make a bigger impact on society** [Tarana Burke's #MeToo movement](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-53269751) has the power to have a brilliant impact on the way women are treated on a daily basis. However, her message has often been co-opted by people whose commitment is only surface level, and [focuses primarily on a white feminist perspective](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb6n6). There are definitely things that can be improved upon: • Modern day feminism must face a reckoning as to how [individualist the approach will be to sexual assault and harassment allegations](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/11/how-metoo-revealed-the-central-rift-within-feminism-social-individualist) • #MeToo must offer equal spotlight to [underprivileged women as it does to Hollywood stars](https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvzgb6n6) • #MeToo must address the [unique issues faced by women of differing circumstances](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/09/opinions/rachel-nichols-espn-zakaria/index.html), as a one size fits all approach does not work