It is inspiring that women are speaking out about sexual abuse.
Women have been changing our own inequality all along, but the ability to connect has been facilitated by social media.
Apparently the "some" you refer to are not familiar with this work. Do you or they regard the reported responses of some women who felt they had to acquiesce to Harvey Weinstein as examples of the cliche you call women's agency over her body? Make that into the only interaction and you have the sex industry. Exited and exiting women created the analysis of pornography and prostitution that I have helped develop and articulate for over 30 years. I represent them at their request. That said, the politics of that work affect all women. I am one, in case you hadn't noticed.
It has done a lot of damage to women but no damage to the women's movement. If anything it has strengthened it.
Caste is also fundamental to prostitution and sex trafficking in India, that is akin, to serial rape. The structural vulnerabilities based on caste function in distinctive, but analogous ways to the way racism functions in rape, including when organised as prostitution, in the US. Am I to understand that sex forced by survival is "women's agency over her body" when organised as prostitution, but a form of abuse when practiced as sexual harassment? That the disproportionate use of lower caste and racially disadvantaged women in prostitution somehow reflects their greater freedom?
Yes. It is the way the women's movement has always been. The observation of western influence was largely a slander to keep women subordinate.
Keep your eyes open and listen to others, including millennials, who see something you might be missing.
Humour often relies on misogyny for the kick of its pleasure. It is often at the expense of those with less power. Funny the same people who deploy it don't laugh at our jokes.
Women and men with vision have always seen women's humanity. As more women resist being treated as subhuman, equality is seen as less radical and more simply accurate and obvious.