#MeToo
No doubt it is a good thing that questions of sexual harassment are being aired, but I found Daphne Merkin’s op-ed piece in the NY Times today salutary. It ends thus: “These are scary times, for women as well as men. There is an inquisitorial whiff in the air, and my particular fear is that in true American fashion, all subtlety and reflection is being lost. Next we’ll be torching people for the content of their fantasies.” (my italics) Philosophers, in particular, should not be prone to this kind of American failing. Blacklisting will be the inevitable outcome unless good judgment is restored.
Lord Flashheart, on the plight of the suffragette movement in enfranchising women:
“any bird who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement gets my vote”