#MeToo is Dead. Long Live #MeToo.
Sex will never be safe
This week, Neeraja Deshpande examines the truth at the heart of the #MeToo movement, and the mistakes it made along the way.
#MeToo is Dead. Long Live #MeToo.
Neeraja Deshpande
If #MeToo’s mistake was its assumption that women had no agency in the face of vulnerability, its critics’ mistake was their assumption that women had no vulnerability because they could simply exercise their agency. Neither side seemed to consider it possible that bad sexual encounters with strangers could be a violation without being criminal. This is where the entire project went south. Rather than shifting sex away from hookups with strangers to something that is reserved for long-term committed relationships (namely marriage), as it has historically been, #MeToo wound up sanctioning the worst of hookup culture—as long as there’s consent, anything goes—while attempting to bureaucratize it, insisting that the platonic ideal of sex is risk-free.
This Week in Sex-Realist Feminism: Skrmetti's Common Sense, Has Feminism Betrayed Women, and Mom Bod
This week: Theresa Farnan and Mary Rice Hasson on the (partial) common sense of the Skrmetti decision on youth gender transition, a debate on whether feminism has betrayed women, and Rachael Killackey on looking like she's had children. Plus: an unexpected argument from the right, women aren't dolls, stop striving and have a baby, grooming gangs—and more!
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ICYMI: Featured Author Angela Franks draws on theologian Bernard Lonergan to help us understand how sex can be meaningful, even on a spiritual level.
Integrating Sex: Why We Hunger for Affirmation of Our Bodies
Angela Franks
“But is meaning-less and purpose-less freedom necessary for human fulfillment? Is it a good idea to rip away meaning and purpose from sex?”