With all of Hollywood dressed in funereal black for the Golden Globe Awards, it seemed that the final nail in the coffin of the Harvey Weinstein era had been planted. Everyone, but everyone, seemed extremely relieved that there was, finally, good riddance to bad rubbish. Weinstein had, indeed, done the unforgivable by making so many known and not so known female stars victim to his loathsome and evil designs. As the gory details started pouring out, a strong movement started with several turning into activists overnight. But as the gory details started unfolding, it surfaced that the Weinstein effect was not just confined to Hollywood, but to every conceivable workplace. Indeed, corporate offices, hospitals, media houses and even the army had not been spared. That is why the "MeToo" campaign took off with an unforeseen vengeance. Contrary to the earlier trend, anyone accused of some misdemeanour or another quickly apologised and resigned. Even the American Senate was affected when a couple of "stalwarts" resigned. However, at the Golden Globe Awards, the person who stole the limelight was TV icon, and billionaire, Oprah Winfrey. So powerful was her speech that there were reverberations even in Washington DC. Since then, there have been plenty of speculations about her running as a Presidential contender in 2020. Meanwhile, it has come to light that the "MeToo" movement had its genesis a decade ago. Be that as it may, Gretchen Carlson, the once very popular TV anchor for Fox News, with two decades of experience behind her, had sued the then CEO of the company for inappropriate behaviour, amounting to $20 million, 18 months ago. She came out triumphant and is now seeking a bipartisan legislation to ensure workplaces would be rid of such predators and their advances. A legal clause bars her from opening up on precisely what happened to her. But even as tunes of glory for the MeToo movement could arrive at a crescendo, here comes the news of the legendary French actress, Catherine Deneuve leading 100 eminent women comprising authors, journalists, psychiatrists and intellectuals denouncing the MeToo movement as a "puritan backlash." Puritans, they have stated, were using the familiar technique of "arguing for the protection of women in order to chain them down in their status of eternal victims, of poor little things under the power of male chauvinist devils like in the good old days of witchcraft." Men's careers, they have argued, were being ruined when "their only wrong was touching a knee, stealing a kiss, talking of intimate matters at a professional dinner." Far from helping women to become independent, "this, in reality, serves the interests of enemies of sexual freedom, religious extremists, the worst reactionaries and those who believe in the name of Victorian morality that women are children with the faces of adults." While conceding that the post-Weinstein awakening to abusive men was justified, they have stated, "insistent or clumsy pick-up attempts are not a crime and gallantry is not a male aggression." A lot has been said to substantiate their argument. Seeds of a new debate from both sides of the Atlantic have been sown. It remains to be seen if, eventually, sense and sensibility prevail.