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"The neofeminism of #MeToo is not emancipatory: it is eradicator"

2021-10-20T16:53:17.338Z


INTERVIEW - Sabine Prokhoris publishes “Le Mirage Me Too” (Éditions du Cherche midi), a well-argued critic of neofeminism, its postulates and its methods. The philosopher and psychoanalyst describes the break of the new militant generation with the feminism of the 1970s.


LE FIGARO.- You go very far in your book in criticizing the #MeToo movement, which you qualify as a “mirage”.

According to you, there were not only “drifts”, but it is about a movement “structurally flawed”.

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Sabine PROKHORIS

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The doxa is: #MeToo is a formidable revolution, with, unfortunately, some regrettable drifts.

I argue the reverse: it is a structurally flawed movement, which however had the undeniable merit of forcing to consider indeed very serious questions At the beginning, #BalanceTonPorc, first, then #MeToo, left me doubtful, and quite uncomfortable.

Obviously, the practices denounced were intolerable.

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However, the project carried by #MeToo is not emancipatory, it is eradicator.

The unfiltered violence of the reactions to the Deneuve platform quickly alerted me to the absolutist nature of the movement, to its refusal to debate.

By putting myself to work to understand my reluctance, I brought to light

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