She Said is a 2022 film about Jodi Kantor and
Megan Twohey's New York Times investigation of Harvey Weinstein's sexual
abuse of female underlings. The film stars Carey Mulligan as Twohey and Zoe
Kazan as Kantor. It was directed by Maria Schrader. The screenplay was written
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It was released on November 18, 2022. It has an 87%
professional critic score at RottenTomatoes, and an 87% audience score. In
spite of positive reviews, the film opened to weak box office.
I vowed to myself that I would not see She
Said. I'm a feminist and I've been subject to sexual harassment, but the Me
Too phenomenon that followed the Weinstein scandal struck me as flawed. Too
many Me Too discussions oversimplified the problem. These simplified
discussions depicted men as rapists and women as victims and an incoherent and
racist rage against "white men" as some kind of solution. Hollywood
actresses participate in the objectification of women, and female participation
in female degradation renders the "men are bad" solution ridiculous.
