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Why the Me Too movement failed
Based on politically abstracted ideals, the popular online feminist campaign didn’t recognise the driving force behind gender inequality — power — and, most importantly, who has it, argues CHLOE KOFFMAN

THE formal exposure of serial creep Joe Biden as an alleged rapist should come as a surprise to no-one. 

No fewer than eight women have formally claimed that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had either touched them or invaded their personal space inappropriately, with some uncomfortable incidents even captured on camera. 

However, the most serious of these allegations emerged last month when former staffer Tara Reade accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 when she worked in his office.

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