" . . . The allegations set off a movement whose impact few could have imagined. On October 15th, the actress Alyssa Milano tweeted, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” Seventeen thousand women would ultimately respond—effectively joining a “me too” movement that had been founded a decade earlier, by the activist Tarana Burke. By the end of October, more than eighty women had claimed that Weinstein had sexually assaulted them, a figure that would eventually rise to more than a hundred.
But on October 5, 2017, the front-page headline of the New York Times read “sexual misconduct claims trail a hollywood mogul.” The Times investigation, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, highlighted thirty years’ worth of “previously undisclosed allegations” against Weinstein. For the first time, women had gone on the record to share their experiences of Weinstein’s sexual abuse—the actress Ashley Judd, an assistant named Emily Nestor, a literary scout named Lauren O’Connor. Kantor and Twohey reported that Weinstein “enforced a code of silence” by insuring that accusers signed nondisclosure agreements, and that employees signed contracts prohibiting them from criticizing the company or its leaders. Five days later, Ronan Farrow published the first in a series of reported pieces about Weinstein in this magazine. Thirteen women, including the actresses Asia Argento, Mira Sorvino, and Rosanna Arquette, asserted that Weinstein had sexually assaulted or harassed them. Three of the women told Farrow that he’d raped them. Four actresses said that they suspected Weinstein of working to ruin their careers after they rejected his advances . . . "
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-last-campaign
Comments: How to tell if you are a sexual harasser or not - if you look like Brad Pitt, a hawt 5 percent handsome movie actor dude, what you do is not sexual harassment, it is romantic. If you look like Harvey, a fat ugly dude who is a movie company director, it is sexual harassment . . . Women slept with Harvey on the casting couch to star in his movies, then claimed sexual harassment later for more $$$.