Ms. Ford and the Me Too Era

When I was a child, as the third of three siblings, I was always a little bit behind my brother and sister. My mother says that she constantly used to hear the phrase 'me too'. I didn't want to miss out on what my elder brother, especially, was getting, so whatever he was trying to get, or wherever he was trying to go, I'd cry out the phrase 'me too'. 

Today, 'Me too' is a hashtag on twitter, which means that it's a designating term of tweets in a certain category (a tweet is a statement of 140 characters or less on a twitter timeline, the record of a member's published words). In the case of 'Me too', the category is sexual harrassment, so that all tweets under that term generally…