Margaret Atwood: modern men need 'etiquette books on how to behave'

Describing #MeToo as a ‘symptom of something being wrong’, the Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale recommends extra guidance for people when dating

Margaret Atwood has suggested that men need etiquette books to help them understand what may be expected of them “in the behaviour department”.

Speaking to the BBC, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale was asked about her views on the #MeToo movement – having previously caused controversy by writing in January that it was the “symptom of a broken legal system”, and warning that “understandable and temporary vigilante justice can morph into a culturally solidified lynch-mob habit”.

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