Radway reading the romance6/28/2023 ![]() But the answer, arguably, isn’t quite as straightforward as the précis above might imply. ![]() ![]() Do you think we can’t tell flirting from stalking, or consensual sex from assault?’Īs put by opponents of #metoo, the question is indeed ridiculous (or at the very least, disingenuous). If men can’t try their luck in all the time-honoured ways, how will anyone in future ever have sex?įaced with this question, a lot of women have answered: ‘don’t be ridiculous! Harassment is unwanted sexual attention, not any sexual attention. ‘How French!’ said the English-speaking pundits-but in fact plenty of English-speakers have expressed the same fear about #metoo. ![]() Last week, the French newspaper Le Monde published a letter signed by a hundred women (including the actress Catherine Deneuve), which said that men’s freedom to pester (‘importuner’) women was ‘indispensable for sexual freedom’. ![]()
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