Re: Matzneff is all of us.

I would read the linked article with interest, if it wasn't behind a very fiendish paywall that I can't seem to neutralise. Whatever friendlier feminists might exist in places not totally corrupted by the Anglosphere, your own description of them as belonging to an older generation rather suggests that they are merely a dying echo of a bygone age, not the beginning of something new. And indeed what could feminists possibly have to challenge in modern France if they didn't want to hitch their wagons to #MeToo? The demands of the earlier French feminists were conceded a long time ago (e.g. legal abortion in January 1975). Perhaps it is because of this that those feminists who are not yet claiming a state pension do seem to speak with a single voice, especially when it comes to us. "Losing doesn't always mean your strategy was wrong." Well... (*ahem*)... it's often a bloody good indication.