This article argues that #MeToo posts are transgressive and can be understood as a case of confessional discourse that has the potential to empower women around the world rather than inspiring shame. Due to its public nature, #MeToo also challenges existing frameworks for understanding sexual relationships in the United States. This critical discourse analysis of the response to the #MeToo movement over 9 months (2017–2018) on the Reddit community AskReddit surfaced fears about how the movement is redefining normal sexual behavior. By inventorying the knowledge claims produced across four question and answer comment threads, important shifts in subject positions and discursive frames show that under the guise of inclusive rhetoric and expert discourse, many Reddit respondents fear their past behavior will be reconstituted as abusive. Rape myths also appeared in the discourse as a backlash against the #MeToo movement.

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折磨色情或女权主义女巫狩猎：对 /r/AskReddit 上的#MeToo 运动的担忧

这篇文章认为#MeToo 帖子是违法的，可以被理解为一种忏悔话语，它有可能赋予世界各地的女性权力，而不是激起羞耻感。由于其公共性质，#MeToo 还挑战了美国理解性关系的现有框架。在 Reddit 社区 AskReddit 上对 9 个月（2017-2018 年）#MeToo 运动的反应进行的批判性话语分析引发了人们对该运动如何重新定义正常性行为的担忧。通过对四个问答评论线程中产生的知识主张进行盘点，主题位置和话语框架的重要转变表明，在包容性修辞和专家话语的幌子下，许多 Reddit 受访者担心他们过去的行为会被重新构造为辱骂性的。