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#MeToo Is Bound To Fail, Unless Victims Name Names And Society Sets StandardsIn the aftermath of Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein scandal — a scandal in which dozens of women are coming forward to allege sexual harassment and assault from a man widely rumored to be a monster for decades — famous starlet after famous starlet has written of her experiences in Tinseltown with flesh peddlers who call themselves producers. Molly Ringwald alleges that she has had “plenty of Harvey Weinsteins of my own over the years,” including a fifty-year-old crew member sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old; America Ferrara says she was sexually assaulted at age nine; Reese Witherspoon at age 16.All of this has led other women to tell their own stories of sexual harassment and assault. All of which is worthwhile if it reminds men to be careful around women at the office. But there are two problems with the #MeToo phenomenon. First, nobody seems to want to articulate a standard for wrongdoing worthy of punishment; second, even when wrongdoing is clearly worthy of punishment, nobody wants to name names. This leads to vagueness, a sense of generalized injustice without any serious remedy, at a time when serious remedies are easily available.That’s a problem. ...
