No matter what you’ve read, the #MeToo movement failed and in its failure ended up harming both women and men as a result of its colossal implosion. When it became all about women getting revenge for petty grievances and for not being the mostest specialest in some guy’s eyes — well, it was totally done at that point.

Unsurprisingly, as #MeToo became this ill-formed cudgel to wield against men who had disappointed women in the dating market, and as yet another tool to beat down undesirable men, this caused an understandable political backlash in any men paying attention. Men’s and women’s politics diverged. Men were (in my view, correctly) resentful that not only were they automatically viewed as oppressors and seen as responsible for all women’s problems, but they were also said to be irredeemable by nature of their genitalia alone. Possessed of original sin and with no valid path, many men chose to reject all of feminism. As I noted in the first paragraph, this was a net loss for women.

There is no better way to poison a group against you than to insist they are innately terrible but should still cater to your every whim in the workplace, in romance, and in the family environment. It used to be, men were the greater hypocrites societally speaking. Now thanks to the abomination that modern feminism has become that role is very much occupied by women.

#MeToo could’ve done something good and useful. Instead, it ended up sowing hatred, mistrust and misunderstanding. We really were doing this shit a whole lot better during the 90s.