Instead, it was about calling attention to what she believes was an unfair and opaque investigation. But when people on Twitter tried to explain that her understanding of the UBC situation could be wrong—and, more importantly, that the negative impact of her actions might far outweigh any benefit to Galloway—she doubled down.
She used her very powerful platform she has 1. Atwood MargaretAtwood November 16, Fast forward to January , and some Globe and Mail editor decided it would be a good idea to have Atwood weigh in on MeToo. More from The Irish Times Books. Home energy upgrades are now more important than ever. Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. The account details entered are not currently associated with an Irish Times subscription.
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New comments are only accepted for 3 days from the date of publication. Subscriber Only. The Fell by Sarah Moss: something snaps in lockdown. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox: ticking the boxes. Short stories. The signatories of the UBC Accountable letter have always taken this position. My critics have not, because they have already made up their minds.
Are these Good Feminists fair-minded people? If not, they are just feeding into the very old narrative that holds women to be incapable of fairness or of considered judgment, and they are giving the opponents of women yet another reason to deny them positions of decision-making in the world. A digression: Witch talk. Another point against me is that I compared the UBC proceedings to the Salem witchcraft trials, in which a person was guilty because accused, since the rules of evidence were such that you could not be found innocent.
My Good Feminist accusers take exception to this comparison. They think I was comparing them to the teenaged Salem witchfinders and calling them hysterical little girls. I was alluding instead to the structure in place at the trials themselves.
There are, at present, three kinds of "witch" language. I was talking about the third use. This structure — guilty because accused — has applied in many more episodes in human history than Salem. It tends to kick in during the "Terror and Virtue" phase of revolutions — something has gone wrong, and there must be a purge, as in the French Revolution, Stalin's purges in the USSR, the Red Guard period in China, the reign of the Generals in Argentina and the early days of the Iranian Revolution.
The list is long and Left and Right have both indulged. Before "Terror and Virtue" is over, a great many have fallen by the wayside. Note that I am not saying that there are no traitors or whatever the target group may be; simply that in such times, the usual rules of evidence are bypassed.
Such things are always done in the name of ushering in a better world. Sometimes they do usher one in, for a time anyway. Sometimes they are used as an excuse for new forms of oppression. As for vigilante justice — condemnation without a trial — it begins as a response to a lack of justice — either the system is corrupt, as in prerevolutionary France, or there isn't one, as in the Wild West — so people take things into their own hands.
But understandable and temporary vigilante justice can morph into a culturally solidified lynch-mob habit, in which the available mode of justice is thrown out the window, and extralegal power structures are put into place and maintained. The Cosa Nostra, for instance, began as a resistance to political tyranny. The MeToo moment is a symptom of a broken legal system. Do we mean Mormons?
What are we talking about here? The author, who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, then made it clear that she aligned herself with notions of feminism founded on equality but did not specify any further about which part of the movement she meant. Give me a break! Despite the fact Atwood frequently depicts female characters dominated by patriarchy in her books, she has denied the notion The Edible Woman , which was published in and coincided with the early second wave of the feminist movement, is a feminist title, claiming she wrote it four years before the movement.
The author has argued the feminist label can only be given to writers who willfully and consciously work within the context of the movement. She has been similarly reluctant to label the Handmaid's Tale as a feminist title, saying she does not perceive the Republic of Gilead to be a solely feminist dystopia because not all men have greater rights than women.
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