74: Katie Roiphe: ‘I was called human scum just for criticising #MeToo’

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

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Katie Roiphe talks to Tom Slater about the ‘weird energy’ and censorious rage of Twitter-feminism.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Spiked Podcast. I'm Tom Slater, deputy editor at Spiked and today I'll be talking
0:06.2	me to feminism and censorship with Katie Royfe. Spiked articles, essays, videos and podcasts are free.
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0:37.0	You know I just think this idea that all men are guilty or presumed guilty kind of
0:41.7	leads to the fact that that all women are innocent and I ask that
0:45.1	question which is like, do we really want that innocence? Like has that ever historically
0:50.0	been good for women?
0:51.0	hashtag me too.
0:54.0	Me too.
0:55.0	Me too campaign.
0:56.0	Me too movement.
0:57.0	Me too.
0:58.0	Me too.
1:00.0	The hashtag campaign that exploded in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal is
1:04.7	we're told about women speaking out, talking about experiences of sexual assault and harassment
1:09.6	they had been silent about for years, if not decades. But Me Too has also ushered in a different kind of
1:15.4	silencing of women. Those who have criticized the movement raise concerns that some were
1:20.1	conflating abuse with mere awkward encounters, that it risked promoting a fragile
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