Posted on 04/07/2018 2:41:22 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Tony Robbins should know better than to come for #MeToo and Time’s Up. After the life coach disgustingly claimed women are using the movements to ‘feel significant,’ Twitter rightfully fought back.
A video of celebrity life coach Tony Robbins criticizing the #MeToo movement has gone viral, and women on Twitter immediately began firing back at him. It all started when NowThis shared footage from a seminar in San Jose, California last month that showed Robbins mocking “victimhood” and thus the many people who have come forward with stories of sexual assault and abuse. “If you use the #MeToo movement to try to get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else, you haven’t grown an ounce. All you’ve done is basically use a drug called significance to make yourself feel good,” the motivational speaker said at the self-help seminar.
After Robbins’ tone-deaf remarks started gaining traction online, women started calling him out for his ridiculous statements. “@TonyRibbons I didn’t share my story of gang rape to feel “significant” I shared it bc it was a SIGNIFICANT life altering and life threatening event that I could no longer remain silent about. #metoo,” a user named Brenda Tracy tweeted. “Gross @TonyRobbins. You couldn’t be further from the mark. It’s time for you to put down the mic and LISTEN,” another person named Alison Becker said.
Brenda Tracy ✔ @brendatracy24 @TonyRobbins I didn’t share my story of gang rape to feel “significant” I shared it bc it was a SIGNIFICANT life altering and life threatening event that I could no longer remain silent about. #metoo https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/982389487836778496 … 9:45 PM - Apr 6, 2018
Daryl Hannah ✔ @dhlovelife If your famous pal can’t trust himself &/or his coworkers to behave respectfully & professionally around a qualified woman just because she’s attractive then he has a personal or personnel problem it’s not a problem of the #Metoo movement @TonyRobbins https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/982389487836778496 … 7:59 PM - Apr 6, 2018
While addressing the crowd, the self-help book author claimed he wasn’t “knocking the #MeToo movement,” but instead was “knocking victimhood.” He also said that “anger is not empowerment.” He was largely criticized for these accusations, but actress Daryl Hannah took issue with his anecdote about a “very powerful” man that, because of Time’s Up, didn’t hire an attractive woman even though she was admittedly the most qualified person for the job. “If your famous pal can’t trust himself &/or his coworkers to behave respectfully & professionally around a qualified woman just because she’s attractive then he has a personal or personnel problem it’s not a problem of the #Metoo movement,” Hannah said. Time’s Up on more than just sexual assault — we’re done with people not understanding what this movement is really about.
I think he can take them.
Yup. They are attention-seekers. Instead of telling the cops back then of their experience, they’re whoring their stories out in the open...NOW??
and something about T Robbins. This dude (former janitor) busted his ass to get to where he is now.
Eff em.
He is right.
There women who have been abused.
There are women who relied on a certain pattern behavior for personal two.
And then there are the self promoting scags who seek relevsncy by falsly accusing men and validate themselves
Welcome to Donald Trump’s world. Start showing Trump support like you did Bill Clinton.
Is he one of us or another Rock Johnson paying both sides?
#I’mWithTony
If the #metoo (#metool ?) movement were to be something meaningful, they would take a lomg hard look at the exploits of those wild wild Kennedy boys, especially in light of the movie about Chappaquiddick. Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate this love affair with the Kennedy mystique (mistake?). There’s an airport in NYC, a government center in Boston, a performing arts center and an old football stadium in DC and many highways byways bridges schools parks and landmarks that need to be renamed.
Did Tony Robbins play in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”?
Tony Robbins has been a fraud for a long, long time. It’s simply not possible to help people in a mass marketing sort of way. For an outrageous personal profit, he sold on-stage performance charisma as a means of genuinely improving the lives of the members of his audience, and it was profoundly dishonest. People who are lost and in trouble need personal, one-on-one help, not the hackneyed bromides of a distant guru.
Having said that, he’s not wrong about the deeply corrosive effects of the “victimhood” mentality. We’re all victims of something or other at one time or another in our lives. If we let victimhood define us, we’re doomed.
Simple solution to “metoo”: only have sexual relations with the woman to whom you are married.
I think he’s a Bush Republican.
Take it from Tony Robbins, he knows attention-seeking.
How’d you know he wasnt able to help people re-direct their lives? Did you interview the thousands who came out of this lectures? I did. I listened to some his stuff and some of it was spot on. No one put a knife to their throats when they signed up.
Tony is a great guy
I disagree.
I purchased his self-help tapes several decades ago, and they made a profound difference in my life.
One of the most important accomplishments was learning about how TV controls your mind, and how to fight back.
Call them what they are - metoo drama queens.
I also find it significant that the article is blatantly biased “women rightfully attacked him on Twitter” “tone deaf remarks”
What, pray tell, is shocking about what he said. It might shock the snowflake geldings and hairy-legged feminists, but what he said is true.
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