Helene Meyers
From Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bella Abzug, to Tiffany Haddish, #MeToo and local politics.
From Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bella Abzug, to Tiffany Haddish, #MeToo and local politics.
Thus, when I ask students to respond in writing to The Red Tent, one question is, “Is Diamant’s midrash a feminist one? Can the redefinition of (possible) sexual assault as consensual sex be a feminist enterprise?
The particular section of the Torah that we read at this time of year addresses issues including menstruation and childbirth. This part of the Torah is, indeed, a bar or bat mitzvah student’s worst nightmare.
We think of the #metoo movement as a contemporary phenomenon. But in truth, women have been speaking up for a long time. Millennia, at least.
Radical empathy will let us see past the surface and imagine the various steps that a person in crisis must take. In the case of a high-profile #MeToo accuser, these could include costs like hiring lawyers, losing time from work, paying for cross-country flights to testify.
Many of these accused abusers have not performed anything close to adequate teshuva. Nor, really, has society at large.
What does matter – what is absolutely clear – is that in the power structure of the university environment, she violated her position.
It seems that women are being targeted on multiple fronts, almost as if #MeToo and its power have provoked a vicious backlash
To what extent will we able to separate the research from the researcher, and should we? With what sort of contextualizing footnotes do we now cite his work?