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#MeToo is over if we don’t listen to victims like Amber Heard Martha Gill

he backlash to the #MeToo movement was always coming. We know this because a backlash has followed every single step forward feminists have ever made. This backlash was always going to be big, too. Not only did #MeToo threaten a status quo that props up powerful men, it threatened these men personally, and – as it seemed to some – with reckless caprice. “If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this,” a White House lawyer said after Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were made public, “then

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