Interview: Peggy Sastre - Critizising #metoo

Peggy Sastre was one of the authors along with Abnousse Shalmani of the open letter criticising #MeToo sent to the leading French newspaper, Le Monde, signed by over 100 high-profile French women. The letter advocated in part that a "freedom to bother" — a man's right to make a pass at a woman, even if a clumsy one — was "indispensable to sexual freedom".

In this conversation Peggy Sastre speaks with Tom Amarque about her decision leading up to writing the open letter, positive and negative feedback and the problems of #metoo.

Peggy Sastre (born 1981) is a French journalist. She is also a Doctor of Philosophy and a specialist on Nietzsche and Darwin.