Journal Article

MeToo vs. #MenToo: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Sexual Economics and Violence in a Hashtag Battle Between the Sexes

Newton, Marcia Anne

2025

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Abstract In this conference paper, I explore a complex struggle between proponents of the #MeToo movement and rising proponents of the #MenToo movement, which gathered traction following Johnny Depp's public defamation trial of unfounded allegations of domestic violence by his ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022. In the case against Weinstein, Cynthia Burr, who had been forced into having oral sex with Weinstein in the 1970s commented on how Weinstein was now going to feel how she feit: \"Humiliation, worthlessness, fear, weakness, aloneness, loss, suffering and embarrassment\" (Kantor and Twohey, pp. 184-185). In his article, \"A Male Perspective on Sex and Power in the Age of #MeToo (2020), David Lotto endeavors to answer this question firom a male perspective: \"Men have a great deal of resentment and anger at being at a disadvantage in the arena of sexual power, specifically the reality that most of the time, in most situations, particularly around the initiation of the sexual relationship, it is the woman who has far more control than the man\" (p. 199) As a result of this perceived lack of sexual power, Lotto claims that if a man's sexual advances are rejected, he will seek revenge for inflicted narcissistic wounds.1 From a Freudian psychoanalytic perspective in which the narcissistic injury is suffered, one suggestion Lotto provides for why men commit sexual harassment is that there is a difference between women as mothers and women as sexually desirable: \"The female power role 1 An excerpt of this paragraph canbe found in my article, \"He Desires Me; He Loves Me Not\": \"MeToo and an Analysis of Freudian Sexual Economics.\" Clio's Psyche, vol. 26.2, Winter 2020, pp. 231-235. or attribute ... is not that of the nurturing caretaker whose power is that of the adult in comparison to the child, but of the one who holds the power of sexual desirability.

• الناشر: University of Florida
• موضوع: Defamation / Domestic violence / Essays / Judd, Ashley / Men / Motion pictures / Narcissism / Psychoanalysis / Sex crimes / Sexes / Sexual harassment / Trauma / Twohey, Megan / Weinstein, Harvey / Women