The Stories of #MeToo
Five years ago, reporting on the film producer Harvey Weinstein\u2019s history of assault and misconduct opened the floodgates of the national reckoning with gender and power known as #MeToo. Three New Yorker critics\u2014Alexandra Schwartz, Naomi Fry, and Vinson Cunningham\u2014recently gathered to assess #MeToo\u2019s impact on the culture more broadly. They discussed works like the new film \u201cT\xe1r,\u201d the movie \u201cThe Assistant,\u201d the fiction pieces \u201cThis Is Pleasure\u201d and \u201cCat Person,\u201d and more. Schwartz notes that #MeToo is not only an event in time but also a lens through which to tell stories about interpersonal relationships that have long been taken for granted.