How do the public and private dialogues regarding the #MeToo movement differ? In a New York Times op-ed, Daphne Merkin delves into the distance between the politically correct things the women she knows say in public and the less strident opinions they save for friends. Merkin is alarmed by the positioning of all women as victims, as the prey of powerful men with no agency of their own. There’s also the lack of nuance in the way we treat the accused, the refusal to separate clear-cut cases of serious abuse—she mentions Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer—from cases with less certain evidence. Merkin argues that an accusation-based, one-by-one approach to defeating systemic misogyny is not the type of broader strategy we need.
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