“By imagining that they are threatened, men like Kavanaugh have found the motivation to demonstrate, at great cost to the rest of us, that they are still the ones that have the ability to threaten others.”— Jia Tolentino, newyorker.com
“You are not overreacting. You are not being hysterical. You are seeing another example of just how little respect and care we give to survivors. This is traumatizing.”— Amanda Deibert, medium.com
“The message of Kavanaugh’s threats was clear: If he wasn’t safe, then no one was.”— Anna North, vox.com
“In other words, it’s about how much some women try their best to forgive the men who let them down — and make no mistake, they let them down terribly — and manage to love those men anyway. It never meant the rest of us had to do the same.”— Tracy Moore, melmagazine.com
“Tuesday's sentencing was a reckoning accusers and prosecutors said was decades in the making.”— Associated Press, hollywoodreporter.com
“To look into the eyes of a vulnerable person is to see yourself as you might be. It’s a more harrowing experience than one might readily admit.”— Elizabeth Bruenig, washingtonpost.com
“As the #MeToo movement gathered steam, restaurants had their own reckoning.”— Marian Bull, Eric T. White, gq.com
“Either he is completely oblivious (which means his “long time to listen” has not nearly been long enough) or he is smirking and rolling his eyes after waiting in a time-out for as long as seemed necessary from a PR standpoint.”— Dana Schwartz, ew.com
“Had he waited for my consent, we may have hit it off. But he didn’t, and we didn’t.”— Nandini Balial, medium.com
“In the days since Crews’ testimony, the silence from other men—men whom Crews has explicitly said he hopes to comfort and embolden with his actions—has been deafening. Meanwhile, the men who mock Crews are participating in the theater of masculine performance to the detriment of their own—and other…”— Hannah Giorgis, theatlantic.com
“When I started at Pixar as an intern, I thought I’d landed my dream job. But my excitement was quickly tempered by a flood of warnings about Lasseter’s touchy-feely, boundary-crossing tendencies with female employees. It was devastating to learn, right from the start, that women were open targets fo…”— Cassandra Smolcic, variety.com
“In a moment when questions about gender and power are erupting in politics, Washington journalism Twitter is important. Not only is #MeToo itself a movement that lives on Twitter, but the platform shapes who is seen as important by influencers in political journalism and whose ideas become the news.…”— Laura McGann, vox.com
“I was blacklisted. With the assistance of a woman who'd gained my trust and my heart over the past year, he steamrolled my career.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“In the post-Weinstein world, so much changed. And yet, so much hasn’t.”— Andrea Stanley, marieclaire.com
“I believed that, to borrow an analogy from a friend, if I kept digging I would find water.”— Chloe Dykstra, medium.com
“You probably think you’re a Good Guy too. Well, you might be the good guy defending a potential rapist.”— Kristy Puchko, pajiba.com
“He welcomed the process of holding himself accountable; he welcomed the opportunity to put his own behavior under a critical lens and declare it lacking and change it accordingly.”— EJ Dickson, menshealth.com
“The fact that there are abusive leaders in the evangelical church is utterly, unremarkably unsurprising. Where there are men in power, there will be men abusing it. What separates #ChurchToo from #MeToo are the power dynamics (at the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality) entrenched in evange…”— Laura Bullard, jezebel.com