I hated the MeToo movement.
It angered me that women who had waited decades to accuse Bill Cosby of rape were believed as if they were the Oracles of Delphi, and that women who had kept their mouths shut long enough to win Oscars, like Meryl Streep, were heralded for their courage.
It seemed that every week brought a new allegation of bad behavior, of neck-sniffing, of lewd looks and in only a very few cases, of actual sexual assault.
But I am also a woman who has spent the last 30 or so years of her life practicing immigration law, and the last 20 or so specializing in asylum.
That means I have a deep understanding of what women go through in other parts of the world, how they are regularly “raped” in cultures that don’t consider that a chargeable offense, and how sexual assault is actually employed as a war crime.
The whole MeToo movement actually undermined and trivialized the very real phenomenon of sexual abuse against women.
The one upside of the MeToo movement is that women began to speak out about abuse, even though it tended to trivialize what rape actually was. To many of us, mere bad behavior by men in........