The French actor Catherine Deneuve has sparked a furious international backlash after she denounced the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment as a “witch-hunt” against men.
The Deneuve letter, published in Le Monde, was signed by other well-known French writers, artists and academics, including Catherine Millet, author of the explicit 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M, which defended libertine lifestyles.
The American academic Christina Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?, said Deneuve was calling out “the excesses of the #MeToo crusade”.
“Would Catherine Deneuve be rushing to the defence of men who ‘try to steal a kiss’ if these men had been north African?” she added.