Let's Discuss Daphne Merkin's Bad Take on #MeToo

by Megan Burbank NITO100 / GETTY
Daphne Merkin, a writer who, frankly, I expect better of, has written a very bad take on the #MeToo movement for the New York Times under the header "Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings." It does not improve from there! Let's dive in.
But privately, I suspect, many of us, including many longstanding feminists, will be rolling our eyes, having had it with the reflexive and unnuanced sense of outrage that has accompanied this cause from its incep