Posted on 06/10/2019 9:30:02 AM PDT by simpson96
Paris (CNN) — A series of high-profile defamation cases have been brought against women in response to the outpouring of sexual misconduct allegations in the wake of #MeToo, and women's rights activists say they could have a chilling effect on the movement's future.
Last week, Sandra Muller, the woman who started France's version of #MeToo, appeared in a Paris court, where she faced a defamation lawsuit brought by the man she accused of making lewd comments about her.
In October 2017, just days before the #MeToo hashtag went viral in the wake of allegations made against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, Muller, a French journalist, shared her own story on Twitter using the hashtag #balancetonporc, which roughly translates to "squeal on your pig."
Muller alleged that Eric Brion, a senior French television producer, had humiliated her by saying: "You have big breasts. You are my type of woman. I will make you (snip)
In a public apology published by the French daily Le Monde in December 2017, Brion admitted he had made those comments to Muller, saying that he had made "inappropriate remarks" to her, "very late at night, during a drink-fueled cocktail party evening, but I did it only once."
In court last Wednesday, Brion once again admitted that he had said those words to Muller, adding that he had sent her an "apology text message" but didn't get an answer the following day. He added that, "Muller's violence against me has never stopped. The violence of people hiding behind their phones."
While he has said that he regretted his words, Brion noted in Le Monde that he would have rather been tried in a court of justice than in the court of social media.
And that's exactly what he's done.
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Oh come on. In a runaway 85-0 football game are you really gonna whine about it when the men manage to get one field goal?
One step closer to eliminating future male-female relationships. Just like feminists and the LGBT crowd so desire.
The ones who are lying? Let's hope so.
Until the world calls out the offenses of MLK,Jr., the hypocrites can scream all they want but will fall upon deaf ears.
Good grief - “chilling” is mentioned 4 times in this article. Another over-hyped term.
So let’s recap.
A woman can make charges against a man, and then he loses everything, has no recourse if they are a lie?
Evidently we are supposed to just accept this as the way things are.
As a man you are not allowed to attempt to recover?
Not if they are not lying!
I have two words: ‘Mattress girl’.
Will it stop others from speaking out?
The ones who are lying? Let’s hope so.
I agree. The left has made it too easy for LIARS to get a voice. Hopefully people will see that the REAL victims are the ones being hurt the most........damn!!!
So, can one become a trans and then accuse women of sexually harassing them?
I thought the #MeeToo movement meant I wanted a sammich as well?
YES THEY ARE!!
And GOD FORBID they ask the right question: Are men getting ####ed (figuratively) in the metoo age?
The author of this piece seems to be implying that it will be some sort of travesty for men to exercise their right of self-defense.
Bias in headline, fake news masters
Yes, because White men are the prime targets.
It’s open season...
We’re ending up with segregation for the “emotional safety” of various officially oppressed groups.
When you say women can’t be alone with men, be afraid because they’re all rapists, let’s have women working on their own floor, chaperoned everywhere, attending women only colleges ... Nor does it stop there.
Go live in the black dorm, visiting black rec centers after class, attending black graduations, for your emotional safety. I’m surprised liberals haven’t ordered blacks back to black colleges so they can’t be oppressed by whites.
I think that is a good sum-up.
That would be the #MeatToo movement
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