SHIKHA DALMIA: #MeToo Run Amok:

Sexual harassment is a serious issue, especially in the workplace. All people deserve to have a comfortable work environment free from harassment. Many of the high-profile heads that have rolled since the #MeToo movement emerged clearly deserved their comeuppance, including, of course, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose multi-decade, sexual predation triggered it all. So did actor Kevin Spacey (who is accused by 24 men, including a 14-year-old boy, of unwanted advances), NBC’s Matt Lauer (who apparently had a button under his desk to automatically lock the door when he was propositioning co-workers), and PBS’s Charlie Rose (who allegedly groped women and exposed himself to them). There were multiple victims and a clear pattern of extreme behavior in all these cases.

But the basis for the defenestration of others is much less clear. . . .

Jenna Wortham wrote in The New York Times that she is unperturbed by the excesses of the movement because she wants “every single man to be put on notice” and “feel vulnerable” just the way women do. But a movement that thoughtlessly and reflexively throws decent men under the bus will discredit itself and hurt its ability to take down the real abusers. That’s a pity, because a responsible reckoning to hold genuine monsters accountable is something that women do indeed need.

Call enough decent men sexual harassers, and people may decide that sexual harassers aren’t as bad as the people condemning them.