How the MeToo backlash helped Russell Brand
Also this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
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Russell Brand’s career was defined by misogyny – and audiences delighted in it
What a comedian chooses to joke about is revealing – and has a bearing on the world at large.
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Russell Brand: In Plain Sight made me sick with horror
This Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, which accused the comedian of rape, sexual assault and abuse, was nauseating and terrifying to…
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Tár is a crafty, cryptic take on art and morality in the online age
Cate Blanchett stars as a master composer caught in a #MeToo scandal in Todd Field’s genre-bending film.
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Are trade unions facing their own #MeToo moment?
A shocking report into the TSSA exposes the misogyny and harassment endured by women in the labour movement.
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She Said is a myopic, timid and trivial attempt at a #MeToo movie
This film about the fall of Harvey Weinstein has no answers for Hollywood’s sexual abuse problem. It’s too afraid to…
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Five years on from #MeToo, what has actually changed?
The movement’s legacies are largely abstract: people “think” differently now; the “climate” has changed. But women aren’t much safer.
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Anatomy of a Scandal is an unconvincing take on politics post-MeToo
The preposterous plot, ropey acting and strangely Americanised sets left me yawning and rolling my eyes.
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South Korea’s new president weaponises anti-feminism to win election
Yoon Suk-yeol, the conservative candidate with no political experience, promised to abolish the country’s ministry for gender equality.
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Joss Whedon is a disappointment to Buffy fans – but the show never solely belonged to him
Many may want to disavow Buffy the Vampire Slayer now its creator’s hollow “feminism” has been exposed. But to disregard it…
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Why tennis star Peng Shuai’s #MeToo allegation is such a threat to China’s leaders
Her accusation exposes systemic sexism and threatens the Communist Party’s legitimacy, Chinese feminists say.
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The reckoning: rape culture and the crisis in British schools
After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the…
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