L. Camille Hebert (OSU): Is “MeToo” Only a Social Movement or a Legal Movement Too? The Supreme Court is helping companies get away with sexual harassment: The Me Too movement takes a massive hit from a new decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch. How sexism follows women from the cradle to the workplace: New economic research suggests that the attitudes toward a woman when she is born have a lasting impact on how much she works, and earns, as an adult. What magazines can’t do in the age of #MeToo: By publishing Jian Ghomeshi, Ian Buruma revealed that he didn’t understand a major issue of our time. The next step for #MeToo is into the gray areas.
All the rage: Rebecca Solnit on what a literature that embraces female anger can achieve. Why women’s rage is healthy, rational and necessary for America: Carlos Lozada reviews Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister and Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly (and more).
#MeToo is working: A new wave of #MeToo’d men resurfacing, alongside blowback against women who report abuse, doesn’t mean the movement is failing — it means change is happening.
