“Barely a year into (the #MeToo movement), there has been this backlash emerging, and we’re hearing it in the people who say things like, ‘Boys will be boys.’ Or, ‘This is what all young men do,”‘ said Giese. For many, the emotional she-said, he-said exchange encapsulated the swirling social anxieties that have forged the dividing lines of the #MeToo debate. For proponents of #MeToo, Blasey Ford has become the face of the life-altering impacts of sexual violence and the forces that have prevented women from coming forward. “I think there are a lot of parents who really want their boys to be decent young men,” she said. While her greatest sympathies lie with the women who live with the lasting trauma of sexual violence, Giese said the “tragedy” of these harms cut across gender.

Source: National Post September 28, 2018 19:41 UTC