#MeToo is over if we don’t listen to ‘imperfect victims’ like Amber Heard | Martha Gill
by Martha Gill from US news | The Guardian on (#5ZGJK)
When even young women join the actor's male tormentors, ideas of justice soon begin to unravel
The backlash to the #MeToo movement was always coming. We know this because a backlash has followed every single step forward feminists have ever made. This backlash was always going to be big, too. Not only did #MeToo threaten a status quo that props up powerful men, it threatened these men personally, and - as it seemed to some - with reckless caprice.
If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this," a White House lawyer said shortly after Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were made public, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried."
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