Twitter has been trending with the #MeToo hashtag in response to Harvey Weinstein being expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The hashtag began with actress Alyssa Milano tweeting on Sunday that if all women who experienced sexual assault, shared the hashtag, “we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” Numerous women began issuing #MeToo tweets to share their stories of sexual harassment or assault, including many prominent Jewish women.
Here were some examples:
https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/919677343131734016
https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/919668578357452800
https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/919814464433561600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amny.com%2Fentertainment%2Fcelebrities%2Fmetoo-twitter-sexual-assault-1.14498028
https://twitter.com/evanrachelwood/status/919778625536245760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4983731%2Fme-too-alyssa-milano%2F
https://twitter.com/jillsoloway/status/919734932779384832
#MeToo https://t.co/VWssdltU3n
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) October 16, 2017
Danielle Berrin, a senior writer for the Journal, has written several times about inappropriate conduct she experienced while on-the-job: in 2008, when Berrin interviewed Hollywood director Brett Ratner, and in 2016, when she interviewed Israeli journalist Ari Shavit.
Weinstein has faced an outpouring of sexual harassment and rape allegations that stretch as far as the United Kingdom. His alleged behavior has been an “open secret” in Hollywood for years, and yet his behavior was generally kept under wraps, until The New York Times and The New Yorker broke the story.
