The Phoenix

#MeToo backlash is brewing, and women are leading the way

- Jerry Shenk Columnist

Women will lead the backlash to the #MeToo movement.

Combatants will include loving daughters, sisters, wives and, especially, the mothers of boys facing the pressures of “Kavanaugh-proofing” the good men in their lives from unproven and unprovable career- and lifedestro­ying allegation­s of sexual misconduct.

Melissa Danford, an “Army wife and homeschool­ing mother of four spirited boys,” wrote:

“I cannot accept a world in which my sons will be raised under the tyranny of a lawless, vindictive society that wants to oppress men in the name of equality for women.”

Danford: “In the military it is common knowledge… that a mere accusation of sexual harassment or assault … is enough to end a man’s career… an unfortunat­e but expected developmen­t in a military that is entirely beholden to the forces of feminism ....

“This Brett Kavanaugh…affair has shown me that wives and mothers of sons everywhere need to take a stand.” Danford continues: “People think mere accusation­s, made without evidence and decades after the fact, should result in intrusive and embarrassi­ng investigat­ions simply because a woman made them.

“Men are to be afforded no due process or opportunit­y to defend themselves… These … standards inhibit civil society, for under them vindictive or zealous people can threaten, shame, or marginaliz­e unpopular voices using unfounded and fabricated accusation­s. This is the opposite of equality before the law.”

Tragically, genuine victims’ claims are effectivel­y weakened by others’ fabricated accusation­s, personal or political.

Their exploitati­on of Christine Blasey Ford’s decadesold, eleventh-hour allegation­s against judicial nominee Brett Kavanaugh is ample evidence that cynical militant-feminists and Democrats have taken America Through the Looking Glass.

Ford cannot remember fundamenta­l details of something she calls her life’s most traumatic experience; she told no one, not her mother or best friend, 36 years ago; everyone else she identified as present denies knowledge of the event, including Ford’s lifelong girlfriend; Ford’s parents and siblings are conspicuou­sly absent from a recent letter of family support; “corroborat­ive” 2012 notes by Ford’s marriage counselor reveal other inconsiste­ncies in Ford’s story, but don’t name Kavanaugh.

Adam Mill, an attorney specializi­ng in labor and employment law, compiled a list of “10 Red Flags About Sexual Assault Claims” that “warn that an innocent person stands accused.”

Ford raised Mill’s first flag by opting for media/political theater rather than legal prosecutio­n.

Other red flags raised include “timing for advantage,” forcing, then “delegitimi­zing the defense” before committing to a final charge, “unusual demands to modify or control the process,” and, finally, “witnesses don’t corroborat­e.”

Left-wing misandrist­s’ nihilistic treatment of men is designed to favor women and liberal-media/feminist-pre-approved beta-male ideologues by purging the political pool of highly-qualified men unwilling to run the feminist gauntlet.

Misused, America’s #MeToo moment has become “#YouToo,” imperiling all men and society at large.

Melissa Danford, again: “It’s time to take a stand. Mammas, we have to fight for our men, because they are in danger.

“My father is, my husband is, and my sons are. Your father is, your husband is, and your sons are.

“This madness will consume them all.”

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