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A brutal backlash against a Harvey Weinstein accuser has helped galvanise the feminist movement.
Charlie Chaplin changed the worlds of film and comedy forever. He deserves a lasting tribute and London’s Cinema Museum – the UK’s only Chaplin museum – must be rescued.
The important lessons from one of the most notorious cases of sexual manipulation took place not off-screen but right in front of the camera.
Time magazine named the #MeToo movement its ‘person’ of the year, highlighting the role companies and nondisclosure agreements play in keeping the victims of abuse silent.
In their novels, Nathanael West and Bret Easton Ellis depict a world few want to admit exists, a place where ‘Unless you’re willing to do some pretty awful things, it’s hard getting a job.’
Attention is being placed on sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, but sexual assault occurs in intimate relationships, too. Often, the causes are the same – a desire for power.
The moral failures of a creative artist shouldn’t make their work any less valid.
Nondisclosure agreements are getting a bad rap these days because they’ve been used to prevent victims of sexual harassment and abuse from speaking out. But not all are nefarious.
We can’t solve this problem until we acknowledge some deep-rooted beliefs about male and female roles in sex and relationships.
It’s not a witch hunt, it’s not a joke and it really does matter.
The question is less why women are speaking up and more why are they only now being heard?
Companies have long tended to protect rather than punish high-profile harassers. That may change as the #MeToo movement inspires more women to speak out.
The #Metoo campaign shows that we should not think of Harvey Weinstein as an isolated case, or just one bad apple. There are thousands more like him. Globally, sexual harassment has become normalised.
The biggest name in the era of silent movies was also a serial sexual predator.
Secret payments in exchange for silence regarding work-related sexual abuse are usually tax-deductible. How about changing that?
If ever there was a time to think seriously about whether parliament represents the people, it’s now.
The unpleasant influence of the adult entertainment industry.
The mere existence of mechanisms to report incidents at work is not enough – whistleblowers have to believe they’ll be believed.
Incorporating lessons on healthy sexual behavior into sex ed classes and special prevention programs for youth could be key to reducing sexual violence, experts say.
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