(What's happened since the Harvey Weinstein story broke) seems to be mostly a good thing. It's certainly better than the alternative, which is these men getting away with it. But the thing that bothers me is their age. These are all men in their 50s, mostly 60s, sometimes 70s, who are being taken down well past the age of commercial viability, so they're not paying the price that they should. The point is, we have this image of these old, predatory, powerful monsters. They totally exist, but they didn't start out that way. They started in adolescence. We are seeing this reluctance to face up to the fact that young men, even boys, can do the damage of their much older counterparts.
-- Kate Manne, "What we get wrong about misogyny"
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