The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’<br />Isabella calls out the vile quid pro quo: “Or with an outstretch’d throat I’ll tell the world aloud/What man thou art.”<br />Angelo replies: “Who will believe thee, Isabel?/My unsoil’d name, the austereness of my life,/My vouch against you,<br />and my place i’ the state,/Will so your accusation overweigh.”<br />Now, suddenly, Mitch McConnell is saying, “I believe the women.”<br />Now, suddenly, Chelsea Handler is saying to Juanita Broaddrick, “I believe you.”<br />This — despite, or perhaps because of, the predator in the Oval Office — is a cultural watershed.<br />Melanie Morgan has praised Sean Hannity’s “tenacious search for the truth in the Roy Moore sex allegation story.” Melanie Morgan has said<br />that Bill O’Reilly was fired for “dubious reasons.” Melanie Morgan is a birther.<br />There are now several women who have accused Senator Franken of groping, but in the days immediately after Leeann Tweeden’s original charge, Ms. Morgan, a radio host, claimed she was “stalked and harassed” by him after an appearance in 2000 on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect.” The internet lit up with the fact<br />that another woman had come forward to accuse Mr. Franken.<br />While we women revisit our sexual histories, the men I know — old and young, liberal and conservative — are doing the same from the flip side.
