# metoo by liza donelly

drawing by Liza Donnelly

Women are thought of as property: A woman walking down the street is yours to all ogle and say crude things to. The woman in your office wearing a short dress is yours to touch. A woman in an advertisement wearing skin tight jeans and no shirt is yours as well. A highly sexualized female cartoon figure in a video game can be manipulated as you choose. They are interchangeable. We are experiencing a change in the USA, and LizaDonnelly, cartonist, author & performer predicts that we will look back on the fall of 2017 as the time when America really woke up to sexism, hidden and overt. We may not be able to fully stop the ad agencies from using women’s bodies as selling objects, but we can learn to understand it for what it is, and we can teach our children — boys and girls — to respect women as people, not just bodies.