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Harvey Weinstein’s Fall Opens the Floodgates in Hollywood

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/business/media/harvey-weinsteins-fall-opens-the-floodgates-in-hollywood.html

• Harvey Weinstein is certainly not the first powerful man publicly and credibly accused of sexually harassing or abusing women e.g Bill Cosby and Bill O'Reily
•  Mr. Weinstein’s accusers include stars like Ashley Judd, Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow.
• Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were flooded with messages from women who used the hashtag #MeToo to acknowledge that they had dealt with sexual harassment or assault.
• .A tweet posted by the actress Alyssa Milano inspired the online campaign.
• “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet,” Ms. Milano wrote.
• The hashtag went on to be used more than 500,000 times in its first 24 hours by people from all lines of work. 

This article is highly interesting as brings a highly important and focal issue with the entertainment industry that is usally ignored and not taken as seriously as it needs to. A lot of the time, we talk about what happens to women in front of the screen/camera however very rarely what happens to them behind the scenes and the conditions or the sisutations they are put in order to achieve these roles or get far within the industry.