It’s been over 6.5 years since the New York Times finally broke the Harvey Weinstein sex story and the #MeToo era really began.
A public read out on the victimization of women by powerful men was critically important, bringing the reality out of the shadows and making it not only undeniable moving forward, but an issue from which people could not turn away in faux ignorance. Weinstein’s story ranged from verbal harassment to violent rape. Other stories quickly piled up, each one usually bringing a narrower range of offense(s).
I don’t know that what I am can be called being a completionist, so much as someone committed to the idea of seeing the complete picture of whatever situation… from something as detailed and literal as the history of box office to something as emotional and complex as sex abuse.
But in the heat of rhetoric, anything other than absolutism about victims is seen by many as minimizing the responsibility of the victimizers and/or blaming the victim. I don’t want to do…
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