Recognition for the majority of Americans – women. Taking issue with paternalism, authoritarianism and the cloaked abuse by clergymen of fundamental religions: Christians and Jews alike. Time for a revolution and real change in behavior and culture.
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Time's Person of the Year is 'The Silence Breakers' of #MeToo movement (Credit: NBC News)She recalls one screenwriter friend telling her that Weinstein’s behavior was an open secret passed around on the whisper network that had been furrowing through Hollywood for years. It allowed for people to warn others to some degree, but there was no route to stop the abuse. “Were we supposed to call some fantasy attorney general of moviedom?” Judd asks. “There wasn’t a place for us to report these experiences.”
Finally, in October–when Judd went on the record about Weinstein’s behavior in the New York Times, the first star to do so–the world listened. (Weinstein said he “never laid a glove” on Judd and denies having had nonconsensual sex with other accusers.)
When movie stars don’t know where to go, what hope is there for the rest of us? What hope is there for the janitor who’s being harassed by a co-worker but remains silent out of fear she’ll lose the job she needs to support her children? For the administrative assistant who repeatedly fends off a superior who won’t take no for an answer? For the hotel housekeeper who never knows, as she goes about replacing towels and cleaning toilets, if a guest is going to corner her in a room she can’t escape?
