Opinion
Five years on from #MeToo, what has actually changed?
The movement’s legacies are largely abstract: people “think” differently now; the “climate” has changed. But women aren’t much safer.
Sarah ManavisThe #MeToo movement has long been considered a watershed moment in bringing to light the endemic problem of sexual harassment – surely, society would never go back to the culture of silence it experienced before.
The movement entered mainstream discourse on October 15, 2017, when the actor Alyssa Milano and others accused the powerful film executive Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, and Milano tweeted that women should post the statement “me too” on social media if they had ever experienced harassment themselves.
New Statesman
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