Noted feminist author and professor Katie Roiphe lashed out at “Twitter feminists” who attacked her for a Harper’s magazine essay on the #MeToo movement before it had even been published.
“Before the magazine article had even been published, thousands of people took to Twitter, furious at me for rumors about what might be in the piece,” Roiphe said in an essay aired on “CBS Sunday Morning.” “Total strangers called me ‘a garbage person,’ ‘a ghoul,’ ‘human scum.’”
She compared these preemptive critics to George Orwell’s “thought police,” arguing that, “If we as a culture are going to sort through the very tangled question of what constitutes an abuse of male power, we need to be able to hear — really hear — lots of different opinions.”