For some male victims of sexual assault and abuse, #MeToo can feel more like #WhatAboutMe?If you thought the #MeToo movement was about removing a grubby power dynamic from the workplace, nah. It appears to be simply another exercise, familiar to anyone who has been on a university campus in the last decade or so, of "smashing the patriarchy", that fond chimera that keeps a privileged class convinced that they own the highest role in our neo-Marxist society: The Victim.
They admire the women speaking out about traumatic experiences as assault and harassment victims, while wondering whether men with similar scars will ever receive a comparable level of public empathy and understanding.
As has been quoted before in The Coracle, Eric Hoffer noted, "'Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket'.”