Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement

Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement
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Just one day after Hollywood offered a show of support for the #MeToo movement on the Golden Globes red carpet
and stage, a famous actress on the other side of the Atlantic lent her name to a public letter denouncing the movement, as well as its French counterpart, #Balancetonporc, or “Expose Your Pig.”
Catherine Deneuve joined more than 100 other Frenchwomen in entertainment, publishing and academic fields Tuesday in the pages of the newspaper Le Monde and on its website in arguing
that the two movements, in which women and men have used social media as a forum to describe sexual misconduct, have gone too far by publicly prosecuting private experiences and have created a totalitarian climate.
In the same way, we defend a freedom to bother, indispensable to sexual freedom.” Though the writers do not draw clear lines between what constitutes sexual misconduct and what does not, they say
that they are “sufficiently farseeing not to confuse a clumsy come-on and sexual assault.”
Catherine Deneuve and other French women tell the world how their interiorized misogyny
has lobotomized them to the point of no return https://t.co/AuH0aZdnCq
On the other side of the spectrum, Christina Hoff Sommers, who coined the term
“victim feminism,” tweeted a quote from the letter and her remarks on it
After describing requests from publishers to make male characters “less sexist” and a Swedish bill
that will require people to give explicit consent before engaging in sexual activity, the women write, “One more effort and two adults who will want to sleep together will first check, through an app on their phone, a document in which the practices they accept and those they refuse will be duly listed.”
They continue, “The philosopher Ruwen Ogien defended the freedom to offend as essential to artistic creation.