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Motivational speaker Tony Robbins has caught flack for comments he made about the #MeToo movement last month during a seminar.
Robbins exchanged words with an audience member during the seminar in San Jose, California, where he tried to use the movement to voice his issues with 'victimhood.'
'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,' Robbins asserts.
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins exchanged words with an audience member during the seminar in San Jose, California, where he tried to use the movement to voice his issues with 'victimhood'
The woman - named Nanine McCool - tries to tell the motivational speaker that he is 'mischaracterizing the movement,' but Robbins asserts the claim that he isn't against the movement.
'Who should throw the stone? You shouldn't throw that stone if you live in a fucking glass house,' Robbins added.
'Is there any one of us that hasn't done something that we prefer we'd not or that we're embarrassed by or that was hurtful even if we didn't intend it to?'
McCool responded: 'Certainly there are people who are using it for their own personal devices, but there are also a significant number of people who are using it not to relive whatever may have happened to them, but to make it safe for the young women. So that they don't have to feel unsafe.'
'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,' Robbins asserts
'You are a leader and an influential man and you are doing a disservice, in my opinion, to the #MeToo movement,' responded Nanine McCool
The woman continues calling Robbins view of the movement a 'disservice.'
'You are a leader and an influential man and you are doing a disservice, in my opinion, to the #MeToo movement,' responded McCool.
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To further prove his point, the six-foot-seven-inches speaker approached the woman and then physically pushed his fist into hers.
To further prove his point, the six-foot-seven-inches speaker approached the woman and then physically pushed his fist into hers
'When you push someone else, it doesn't make you more safe. It just makes them angry,' he continued.
Robbins then went on to share a story about a 'very famous man, very powerful man' who refused to hire a qualified candidate because her good looks would cause too many problems.
Besides the plethora of people who took to Twitter to voice their disdain over the circulated video, #MeToo founder Tarana Burke took to her page to add her disapproval and disgust over the comments.
Tarana Burke took to her page to add her disapproval and disgust over the comments and blasted the speaker for not being more mindful of his position
'I was made aware of this video BEFORE I ever saw it because Tony Robbins people reached out to do damage control within 24 hours. They wanted to 'give me context' apparently. I don't need any. I have eyes. The full video is 11 mins. And it's gross. Bravo to this woman,' she opens.
'Oh the video is MUCH worse. His misogyny runs deep. To even repeat that story of his 'friend' who wouldn't hire the 'pretty woman' as if it's the MOVEMENT's fault and not the sexist man's fault is all you need to hear. It's deplorable. But SO many folks misunderstand this work.
'And he is clear that he won't apologize so it is what it is. If you choose to keep supporting him it's with full knowledge of his views on women and survivors.
'This moment is so damaging especially with how influential @TonyRobbins is. We have a hard enough time trying to shift the narrative about what this movement really is and he stands in front of thousands of his followers and completely misrepresents the @MeTooMVMT.'
Burke then takes it upon herself to continue schooling Robbins and offers him five points to consider before slandering the progress that the movement has made.
Robbins has not commented on the increased criticism.
He made a name for himself as a motivational author in the 80s and 90s and now spends his time doing tours and seminars.