Jessica Bennett
Harvey Weinstein and the Limits of ‘She Said, She Said, She Said’
A chorus of voices is what made #MeToo so powerful. Why did it backfire in court?
By Jessica Bennett
Jessica Bennett
Jessica Bennett is a contributing editor in the Opinion section of The Times. She teaches journalism at New York University and is the author of “Feminist Fight Club” and “This Is 18.”
Jessica was appointed The Times’s first gender editor in 2017 as part of an initiative to expand coverage of women and gender issues across platforms. In that role, she contributed to the coverage of #MeToo, oversaw the launch of the Overlooked obituaries project and was the editor of This Is 18, an immersive look at the lives of 18-year-old girls around the world.
As a writer, Jessica has chronicled the political power of women over 60 and the post-#MeToo evolution of Miss America; has gone inside the newer, woker Playboy magazine; and has profiled E. Jean Carroll, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Broadwell and Jennifer Aniston, among others. Jessica occasionally writes a column on internet language, including one about her resting bitch face.
She is a coveted public speaker and co-hosted The Times’s first-ever women’s conference, The New Rules.
Jessica’s writing has appeared in Vogue, Elle, The Washington Post, Newsweek and Time, among other outlets.
Find her online at jessicabennett.com or @jessicabennett.
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Harvey Weinstein and the Limits of ‘He Said, She Said’
She said, she said, she said, she said can be ruled inadmissible.
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Trump has long treated women as objects, targets, supplicants. I suspect he never thought they would be the ones to hold him accountable.
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Judith Butler Thinks You’re Overreacting
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The Internet Should Feel Shame Over Kate Middleton
Her cancer diagnosis is an embarrassment to the global conspiracy industry.
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Jessica Bennett‘Mean Girls’ Has Lost Its Bite. Girls Haven’t.
Just because teenagers don’t call one another sluts anymore doesn’t mean they’re not just as good at being nasty to one another.
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Jessica BennettThe Audacity of E. Jean Carroll
Her lawsuit against Donald Trump was about defamation. It was also about the worth of a woman, long past middle age, who dared to claim she still had value.
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Jessica BennettThe Joy of Communal Girlhood, the Anguish of Teen Girls
Girl dinners. Barbiemania. Taylor Swift. Is it just a coincidence that the “year of the girl” comes at a time when girls themselves are so very miserable?
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Jessica BennettMaybe This Is Why Donald Trump Is Afraid to Debate Nikki Haley
That exchange at last week’s debate about high heels wasn’t a throwaway moment.
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