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The Reputations and Reckonings of #MeToo

Radio Atlantic

The Atlantic

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces assault allegations, the #MeToo movement reaches its first anniversary. Beyond a potential hearing reminiscent of the Anita Hill testimony 27 years ago, recent days have seen the head of CBS toppled, the editor of The New York Review of Books gone, and even a glacier renamed. What’s changed since the start of the #MeToo movement and what hasn’t? Links - “The Logical Fallacy of Christine Blasey Ford’s ‘Choice’” (Megan Garber, September 20, 2018) - “The Phantom Reckoning” (Megan Garber, September 16, 2018) - “Brett Kavanaugh and the Revealing Logic of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’” (Megan Garber, September 17, 2018) - “I Believe Her” (Caitlin Flanagan, September 17, 2018) - “Why the Les Moonves Departure Is Not Enough” (Megan Garber, September 10, 2018) - “Shame and Survival” (Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair, June 2014) - “Nanette Is a Radical, Transformative Work of Comedy” (Sophie Gilbert, June 27, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Me Too, times up The Reckoning. We're coming up on a year since the first explosive

0:06.6

revelations of powerful men abusing and harassing women started to produce real consequences

0:12.0

for those men.

0:13.0

And the revelations don't stop.

0:15.0

Recent days have seen more high-profile outsters like that of CBS Executive Leslie Moonves.

0:20.0

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is facing disturbing allegations that could

0:24.2

derail his nomination, a situation that echoes the controversial process that landed

0:28.8

Clarence Thomas on the court.

0:31.0

Kavanaugh's fate and the re-emergence of several men who had previously fallen from

0:35.1

Grace have us wondering.

0:37.5

What's changed since the start of the Me Too movement?

0:42.1

And what hasn't? This is Radio Atlantic. Hi, I'm Matt Thompson, Executive Editor of The Atlantic, and for one of the rare confluences in studio

1:07.8

with me is my esteemed co-host.

1:11.2

I almost filled in the word like, co-host. I almost filled in the word like co-host. Alex Wagner. Alex, welcome to

1:16.6

DC. It's great to be here. I was not, I was here last week, I'm not gonna lie.

1:21.2

You weren't here.

1:22.5

That's true. That's true.

1:24.5

And now the universe feels right.

1:26.5

Now the universe feels right.

1:27.7

Now dogs and cats may lay down his friends.

1:31.7

We are in post-racial society and Universal Basic Income for All.

1:37.0

Indeed, indeed. We are joined by our two in nest and mobile colleagues, Megan Garber, staff writer for the Atlantic Megan.

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