Esther Perel on #MeToo and sexual scandals in America

Esther Perel responds to a press conference of Bill Clinton about the Lewinsky-affair, in which he makes his famous statement: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky". Esther Perel used this clip to look at the role of sexual scandal in the United States. She also showed an interview with French feminist Elisabeth Badinter who responds to the French version of #MeToo called #balancetonporc. Perel looks at the distinction between testifying and pillorying and the new conversations about power in the age of #MeToo.

“There’s a very puritan and judgmental attitude towards sexuality in the United States.”
“It’s important for a group that has been living in silence, in secret, in shame to be able to speak out, to testify. But there is a distinction between testifying and ratting on people.”
“If there’s a person I’d like to have this conversation with, about #MeToo, it’s Badinter.”

Interviewer: Janine Abbring

This clip is an edited segment from the renowned Dutch 3-hour interview program VPRO Zomergasten (Summer Residents) and part of a playlist that contains an edited version of the interview, without the movie clips, which we cannot show online due to copyrights:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzLGaX_JvmJq8ATpCMyroZpxa_g7ZTWru

VPRO Zomergasten is a staple interview program in the Netherlands, produced by the Dutch public broadcasting station VPRO. Each summer 6 renowned guests are invited to compose their ideal evening of television, filling up an entire Sunday evening, consisting of a 3-hour live in-depth studio interview prompted by their selection of cinema and television clips or any other form of moving images, which run like a thread through the entire interview.

Esther Perel was a guest in the summer of 2018. She selected clips from the following movies, television history, documentary films and interviews: I, Tonya; Salvador Minuchin; My Architect; Before Midnight; The {The And}; Bill Clinton; Elisabeth Badinter; Shoah; Mr. Gaga; A Walk on the Moon; Away from Her; Newness; Call Me by Your Name.

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