I can easily understand why these men do what they do. The most terrifying, the most inexplicable to me, are the women, white powerful women who have zero stakes that publish long texts to slander victims and to discourage them from trusting themselves. Here in France, I have seen at least two books, published by women, with big publishing houses, a psychoanalyst and a journalist, the second one is a queer woman, written to discredit and ridicule the Me Too movement. How one can remain a pick me girl well into one's middle age, how can you use the platform you've acquired to slander younger and vulnerable women who are trying to organise, that's well beyond my understanding.
Cruel paradox - how the acts of the powerful are defined downward as mere speech (such that misgendering and harassment become free speech rights) while protesters' speech becomes punishable as a terrorist act (imprisonment by ICE for writing an op-ed against Palestinian genocide). University culture pays lip service to social justice ideas, even to the extent of using cancellation for personal career power struggles, while behind the scenes it's like the Playboy Mansion.
To hear Rebecca Watson recount her being blacklisted, and now learning that it was indeed done by Richard Dawkins, and that she had been a topic between him and Epstein - it is quite something to understand how whiney and thin skinned these men are.
I can easily understand why these men do what they do. The most terrifying, the most inexplicable to me, are the women, white powerful women who have zero stakes that publish long texts to slander victims and to discourage them from trusting themselves. Here in France, I have seen at least two books, published by women, with big publishing houses, a psychoanalyst and a journalist, the second one is a queer woman, written to discredit and ridicule the Me Too movement. How one can remain a pick me girl well into one's middle age, how can you use the platform you've acquired to slander younger and vulnerable women who are trying to organise, that's well beyond my understanding.
Cruel paradox - how the acts of the powerful are defined downward as mere speech (such that misgendering and harassment become free speech rights) while protesters' speech becomes punishable as a terrorist act (imprisonment by ICE for writing an op-ed against Palestinian genocide). University culture pays lip service to social justice ideas, even to the extent of using cancellation for personal career power struggles, while behind the scenes it's like the Playboy Mansion.
To hear Rebecca Watson recount her being blacklisted, and now learning that it was indeed done by Richard Dawkins, and that she had been a topic between him and Epstein - it is quite something to understand how whiney and thin skinned these men are.
Thank you Sara for this luminous commentary. A genuinely enlightening moment.
Thanks for all the great work you've been doing by the way
Caroline Fourest, Le vertige Me Too, and Sabine Prokhoris, Le Mirage Me Too.
The second one actually believes the women in the me too movement are ... intellect terrorists.