Hollywood has spoken. The recent ‘black’ display at the golden globes awards is typical self aggrandizement that we have come to expect. A parade of stars still acting like sheep in $50k low cut dresses [look but don’t touch] congratulating themselves for keeping quiet for years. Rose McGowan who outed Weinstein was not there but tonya harding was[Nancy eat your heart out].Oprah, for whom I have great respect gave a stirring speech but if you think about it it should have been powerful women like Oprah and Sherry Lancing, who should have done the outing. These shows which have nothing to do with cinema and everything to do with self promotion, yet another red carpet occasion where hypocrisy reigns. Below is a comment from the French movie stars, I don’t agree with the ‘flirting’ but at least they are aware of the dangers, Valerie Solanas would feel at home at the globes The question now is what will be the theme,
orange is the new black.
Catherine Deneuve denounces #MeToo in open letter
By Frank Andrews, Yelena Peigne and Judith Vonberg, CNN
Updated 8:33 AM ET, Thu January 11, 2018
Paris (CNN)A collective of 100 French women including film star Catherine Deneuve have signed an open letter defending men's "freedom to pester" women, sparking an angry response from a group of feminist activists.
The open letter, which criticized the #MeToo movement and warned about a new "puritanism" sparked by recent sexual harassment allegations, was published Tuesday in French newspaper Le Monde.
The group of writers, performers, academics and businesswomen denounced a "hatred of men and sexuality" and the recent wave of "denunciations." Men's "freedom to pester" is "indispensable to sexual freedom," they wrote.
"Rape is a crime, but insistent or clumsy flirting is not an offense, nor is gallantry macho aggression."
A group of around 30 activists, led by prominent feminist Caroline De Haas, responded on Wednesday with a scathing critique, published on France Info.
They accused the signatories of deliberately mixing "seduction, based on respect and pleasure, with violence."
"Sexual violence is not 'intensified flirting,'" they wrote. "One means treating the other as your equal, respecting their desires, whatever they may be. The other is treating them as an object at your disposal, paying no attention to their own desires, or their consent."
They also criticized the letter's claim that the movement risks going "too far," and the suggestion that it's the responsibility of women to protect themselves from intimidation.
"When will we ask the question about men's responsibility to not rape or abuse?" they wrote, describing the letter as "a bit like the annoying colleague or the tiring uncle who doesn't really understand what's going on around him."
Sandra Muller, founder of the #BalanceTonPorc ("squeal on your pig") movement -- the French equivalent of #MeToo -- also denounced Tuesday's letter.
Speaking to CNN, she described it as "buzz for the sake of buzz" and criticized the signatories, saying "they are just going to sap the morale of the numerous victims who try to have a bit of courage."
"Feminism is not about protecting sexual liberation," she added, "but about protecting women."