Now sexual harassment is a campaign against men? Get real | Nesrine Malik

Watch the powerful men scrambling to defend their unearned privilege, equating rape with a matter of ‘hands on knees’. They must be really worriedI know it feels like years, but we are only just over three weeks into the post-Weinstein “#MeToo” ramifications on media and politics. There is a cultural shift under way. Those in power, who hitherto were immune, are beginning to understand that there are consequences. But even though some big names have been challenged, it is only the beginning of a correction. Barely even that. It is the beginning of a hope of a correction.Yet even this is too much for many. Almost every day now, there is a man on the radio or the television telling us that things have gone too far. Almost every day, there is a man’s sneering, hovering head sitting on top of a few hundred words of what is really no less than the sort of existential hysteria of an animal whose cosy ecosystem has been disturbed. Like an anthill that’s been kicked, the commentariat complex is scattering its ants, frenzied and confused, crawling all over the pages of British newspapers and the airwaves, warning that a merciless McCarthyite campaign is under way against men. All men. Continue reading…
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