The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’
Isabella calls out the vile quid pro quo: “Or with an outstretch’d throat I’ll tell the world aloud/What man thou art.”
Angelo replies: “Who will believe thee, Isabel?/My unsoil’d name, the austereness of my life,/My vouch against you,
and my place i’ the state,/Will so your accusation overweigh.”
Now, suddenly, Mitch McConnell is saying, “I believe the women.”
Now, suddenly, Chelsea Handler is saying to Juanita Broaddrick, “I believe you.”
This — despite, or perhaps because of, the predator in the Oval Office — is a cultural watershed.
Melanie Morgan has praised Sean Hannity’s “tenacious search for the truth in the Roy Moore sex allegation story.” Melanie Morgan has said
that Bill O’Reilly was fired for “dubious reasons.” Melanie Morgan is a birther.
There are now several women who have accused Senator Franken of groping, but in the days immediately after Leeann Tweeden’s original charge, Ms. Morgan, a radio host, claimed she was “stalked and harassed” by him after an appearance in 2000 on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect.” The internet lit up with the fact
that another woman had come forward to accuse Mr. Franken.
While we women revisit our sexual histories, the men I know — old and young, liberal and conservative — are doing the same from the flip side.