‘Grope-gate’ and #MeToo’s Crisis of Legitimacy

07/18/2018

This is about hypocrisy-not about what did or did not happen at a music festival 18 years ago. It is about 'believing women,' until it happens to you; about taking all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously, except if they happen to pass some arbitrary expiration date. It is about employing an unwavering zero-tolerance policy, which, in practice, ends up showing some tolerance for the man at the top.