Some time after his interview with Rachel Maddow last night, Michael Moore contacted TigerBeatdown's Sady Doyle to (sort of) acknowledge that he'd f-ed up. Which is kind of all that we wanted, really.
As Doyle writes in her post today, it does matter for someone of Moore's stature to admit on national TV that rape culture exists. Saying that rape victims deserve to be taken seriously sure seems like a no-brainer, but unfortunately it isn't as evident to far too many people.
Moreover, Doyle reminds us of the power of grassroots activism:
That’s the most important lesson of #MooreandMe, for me, the most important take-away: The next time something is this fucked up, and we feel like we have to fight it, we will. The next time we feel like we have to fight something, we will know fighting can make a difference. The chief thing #MooreandMe gave me, the girl who started out a week ago just writing an irritated Tweet and then eventually hearing a “thank you” from Michael Moore, was faith in the idea that activism can change things. Faith in the idea that you matter. Faith in the idea that, next time we set out to oppose rape culture in our media or our lives, we can do so with that most precious, most rare, most essential of qualities: We can fight rape, and we can have hope.
Doyle is a hero for going up against the dominant left-wing narrative of the Assange rape allegations, and taking on a couple of the left's biggest icons in the process.
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