I don't know exactly what Norm Macdonald meant when he suggested Me Too has "Slowed down." But there's some truth to his basic observation, and Joe Biden surfaced this week to remind us all why much of the public is less inclined to share the media's boundless enthusiasm for the movement.
To the contrary, the Me Too learning curve we all lived through- arching dramatically through the varying cases of people like Harvey Weinstein to Aziz Ansari to Asia Argento - demonstrated pretty clearly why such presumptions are wrong.
Of course, Me Too may well end up normalizing Biden's presumption.
The better presumption, the one Me Too will hopefully ingrain in the public consciousness, is that women who step forward with public allegations should be taken very seriously, and are speaking to a problem that is more pervasive in our culture than was previously understood.
A Vox/Morning Consult survey taken in early March found broad support for Me Too among adult women, with 69 percent generally supporting the movement.
Fifty-nine percent of liberal women "Strongly" supported Me Too in the survey, compared with 35 and 21 percent of moderates and conservatives, respectively.
It's odd to imagine senior producers of the "Tonight Show" crying over Macdonald's Me Too comments, while an audience peppered with people who may have enabled Moonves comfortably ignored the issue and sipped champagne at the Emmys days later.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/21/joe-biden-suggests-mean-assuming-accused-men-guilty/
To the contrary, the Me Too learning curve we all lived through- arching dramatically through the varying cases of people like Harvey Weinstein to Aziz Ansari to Asia Argento - demonstrated pretty clearly why such presumptions are wrong.
Of course, Me Too may well end up normalizing Biden's presumption.
The better presumption, the one Me Too will hopefully ingrain in the public consciousness, is that women who step forward with public allegations should be taken very seriously, and are speaking to a problem that is more pervasive in our culture than was previously understood.
A Vox/Morning Consult survey taken in early March found broad support for Me Too among adult women, with 69 percent generally supporting the movement.
Fifty-nine percent of liberal women "Strongly" supported Me Too in the survey, compared with 35 and 21 percent of moderates and conservatives, respectively.
It's odd to imagine senior producers of the "Tonight Show" crying over Macdonald's Me Too comments, while an audience peppered with people who may have enabled Moonves comfortably ignored the issue and sipped champagne at the Emmys days later.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/21/joe-biden-suggests-mean-assuming-accused-men-guilty/
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