MeToo is over, let it die
Check out my latest National Post column on the attempted cancellation of Andrew Huberman
Last month, a mini MeToo mob came after podcaster Andrew Huberman. In a 9,000 word (!) essay, New York Magazine levelled sundry accusations about Huberman being a cheater, liar, bad friend, HPV transmitter, and womanizer. Who knows what’s true and what isn’t. Joe Rogan has since revealed, on his podcast, that the central accuser in the story is a woman currently under a criminal investigation for fraud.
No one interviewed for the article said that Huberman did anything criminal. I was stunned by the apparent throwback to the embarrassing excesses of MeToo. I thought we had figured out that it’s unwise to come after famous men for behaving like, well, famous men. Women clearly throw themselves at Huberman—and it should come as no surprise that the man takes advantage of that fact. The women who dated him, to me, are victims of their own denial rather than of Huberman’s bad behaviour.
I worry that these attempted hit jobs tarnish women’s credibility a lá the same mechanism from the “boy who cried wolf” fable.
Please check out my column and let me know your thoughts.
Was there any merit to the hit piece? Or do you also think that Huberman is just another run of the mill philanderer? What on earth was the point of coming after him?
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Amy
He's a famous person whose credibility people rely on in terms of his advice. I think the degree to which people tried to cancel him is more of a "fuck around and find out" thing - he lied to many women, it's a regular scandal, I don't blame the women who brought it to light. The part that is hyperbolic is coming from the class of people to whom drama and campaigning for cancellation is either a part of their social media grift or, much more broadly, is entertainment.
Wasn't he encouraging one of his girlfriends to go through IVF with him? Was she supposed to think
"oh ha ha all good looking rich jacked 40 something men encourage you to go through IVF while not being faithful to you, what was I, born yesterday????"
That actually seems like making a real underhanded and pretty demented effort to fuck a woman over? And, potentially, a kid? Not just being a playboy but being a headcase?
It's weird enough that it makes the story interesting. If the story had been "rich semi-handsome dude gets around!" there never would have been an article about it. It's not Me Too it's He's a Real Weirdo, which -- I don't know, I mean you can be indignant that people take an interest in that sort of thing but I would say you're setting yourself up for an uphill battle.