Sensuality is accepted only in a rational way, which is another way of refusing it.”Like America, France is reeling from the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but in different ways. Ms. Deneuve, in a televised interview, declared: “I will certainly not defend Harvey Weinstein. And in the past 20 years or so, a new French feminism has emerged — an American import. But the epidermic reaction across the Atlantic, to both Ms. de Beauvoir and to that letter, may in fact underscore the sharpness of the French critique. To many of us in France, Simone de Beauvoir could have been writing yesterday: “Relations between men and women in America are one of permanent war.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2018 10:41 UTC