#BalanceTonPorc Is France's #MeToo
In the land of the insouciant shoulder shrug, it might have taken an American-made scandal to start a conversation on sexual assault.
PARIS — My adopted home is the land of the shoulder shrug, of the insouciant “bof,” of a “these-things-happen” cynicism—a place where there’s a small industry of books on seduction and far more shame attached to discussing money than to discussing sex. So it was surprising to see the Weinstein scandal explode so intensely in France.
But there are darker sides here—daily indignities and workplace harassment, to say nothing of troubling rates of women being harmed by their partners in France—and it seems to have taken Harvey Weinstein’s downfall to bring it out. While the hashtag #MeToo has of testimonials by women
