"Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #MeToo movement.
A year later, the fallout continues.
Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest. There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.
He feels unable to make new ones, because he fears the reaction of anyone who Googles him.
He's 32, unemployed, and perhaps unemployable—"I'm radioactive," as he puts it.
And he's still trying to find the right combination of psychotropic medication to quell the recurrent thought that ending his life may be the best way out.
...Before it all fell apart, Kaiman's life was a success story.
After graduation from Vassar, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in China.
He stayed on, became fluent in Mandarin, and, starting as a freelancer, worked his way up the journalism ranks.
...Given the millennia during which women have had to take male abuse and suffer under institutionalized denial of and indifference to it, it is perhaps understandable that there is a willingness to shrug off the prospect that some unfairly accused men will become roadkill on the way to a more equitable future.
A common feminist dictum holds there are no innocent men, as per the slogans #YesAllMen and #KillAllMen.
We are now in a time when a sexual encounter can be recast in a malevolent light, no matter whether the participants all appeared to consider it consensual at the time and no matter how long ago it took place.
Looking back, it can be even harder—perhaps impossible— to know what really happened in a private sexual encounter..."
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