So much for #MeToo
So much for #MeToo
My conversation with Toronto writer, editor and podcaster Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Appears in this episode
It’s hard to believe that it has been five years since #MeToo.
The culture has moved on many times since then. But it’s worth returning to the movement, to take stock of what it did, and did not, accomplish — and how it’s influenced the moment we now find ourselves in.
My guest on the podcast today does just this in a new piece for The Spectator, “So much for #MeToo.”
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a Toronto writer, editor, and contributing columnist at The Globe and Mail. She’s also co-host of the Feminine Chaos podcast (which I have appeared on), and the author of The Perils of “Privilege”: Why Injustice Can’t Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is my guest — today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers tomorrow.
So much for #MeToo
Hi Tara, thanks for another interesting discussion. I've read your book and enjoyed your thought pieces and talks with people. It's nice that you have a wide range of topics so we your readers and listeners don't get bogged down in one area. I'm in my late forties with a semi-traditional family (wife works full time and daughters in school) and work successfully in an institutional governmental bureaucratic setting. As a man in this setting, there is a significant power differential between men and women. If a woman accuses me of basically anything untoward, I have little to no standing to dispute that claim. The result, is that, in a non-obvious way, I simply avoid spending time with female co-workers. It's just not worth the risk. Ironically, it has revived the old boys club. I'm too old and settled to speak to the dating scene. Some young dapper fellow or girl will have to chime in on that one. Cheers.
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