Yet the new front that has opened for #MeToo, led by writers who suggest the movement is at risk from overzealous activists, has a serious flaw. Worried about the coming backlash, these writers actually play into the same assumptions that fuel backlashes: treating women and their responses to abuse and mistreatment as the main problem in need of solving, policing their activism and their reactions, demanding perfection not only in the present but in some imagined future when their voices have gained too much power. Carried too far, their attempt to rein in the #MeToo moment may end up destroying it.
Nicole Hemmer
