Re: Matzneff is all of us.

You keep talking about a feminism that does not exist. French feminism has not universally embraced #MeToo. Unsurprisingly, it seems to be older French feminists who better remember the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, or at least learned about it, who regard #MeToo as a distastefully misandrist American innovation. The New York Times article linked below reports that "competing strains of French feminism from different generations" are split over Springora's attack on Matzneff. Feminism has never spoken with a single voice. No movement ever does. The opponents of social change do their best to install compliant leadership and suppress the "radical elements" Thorstad identifies, but they never wholly succeed. And even if they could, it is not possible -- at least not yet -- for them to erase the past. It's still there for us to learn from. Some here think the movements of the 1960s and 1970s were wrong, and the lesson to be learned is that we need to try something different. I disagree. Losing doesn't always mean your strategy was wrong. We imagined the empire we were challenging was ready to fall. It turned out to be more resilient than we believed, but no empire lasts forever. hugzu ;-p (https site) How Should Feminism Target Sexual Abuse? A Battle in Patriarchal France (NYT) [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]