One Year of #MeToo: Punishing Individual Abusers Is Not the Same as Justice [NewYorker.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/12/184:00 AM

It began with the mesmerizing spectacle of dominoes falling: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Russell Simmons, and so on, name after famous face, all disgraced by the end of November, 2017. An autumn later, #MeToo is undergoing a shift. Perhaps this is the moment that #MeToo stops being a movement aimed primarily at punishing individuals and starts to do its work on the institutions that have enabled them. The institutions do not collapse into non-presence, the way some of the men have seemed to. But with the curtain pulled back they stand exposed, demystified, and, inevitably, de-legitimized.

[For more of this story, written by Masha Gessen, go to https://www.newyorker.com/news...-the-same-as-justice]

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