Good, long article about #MeToo, what it's becoming, and the Ansari thing which finally put into words how I was feeling about it but unable to articulate.
https://longreads.com/2018/01/18/were-not-done-here/
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What actually happened was this: A man was rude and sexually entitled, ####ed up and hurt somebody, and she told him so. He apologized and took it to heart. An unscrupulous trash publication chased this woman down and got her to tell her story, which it reported in the lurid language of celebrity sex scandal. It then shoehorned the story into a movement that demands sexual and gender justice for women, and framed it in a way designed to garner maximum attention, derail important activist work, and humiliate everybody involved. The original piece at Babe magazine is an object lesson in how scummy gutter journalism can be when literally all it cares about is keeping readers salivating. The piece pruriently portrays both parties in the worst possible light: Ansari comes out of it looking like an entitled dick on training-wheels, and “Grace” comes out of it looking like a spiteful child who wanted to hurt a man who hurt her, who wanted to ruin him just like the papers warned us all women do.
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