A professor in India was forced to resign from her job at a prominent university for posting pictures of herself in a swimsuit on her Instagram account.
charges almost at the last moment as the statute of limitations was running, not just try the case once, but try it twice, had those fact pattern witnesses testify and get a conviction. i m sure that had to encourage prosecutors all over the country to say no longer will we accept that these cases can t be brought, and no longer will we accept that powerful men like bill cosby and harvey weinstein cannot be prosecuted. as the climate has changed, i think there s now this willingness for jurors to listen to these women and to look at these cases very differently. i know as a civil rights attorney that has been involved with these cases for more than two decades, this is really, really a catastrophic change. i can remember representing women who were so terrified to come forward because it meant repercussions for them. being slut shamed. and now these women are being revered, they re being applauded, they re being recognized in a way that never would have happened, even ten years ago.
going to this. we re going rogue. honorable mention. look at me and smile. big little lies, by putting so many successful actresses in one body of work, by putting rape and sexual assault at the center of the story line, really elevated the topic. all of which brings us to number two on our ten most. something we are calling, after some deliberation, the reckoning. the wave of sexual harassment and assault accusations and dismissals in certainly more than one industry. i have been silenced for 20 years. i have been slut shamed. i have been harassed. i ve been maligned. and you know what? i m just like you.
new category. this is happening now. they didn t know we were going to this. we re going rogue. honorable mention. look at me and smile. big little lies, by putting so many successful actresses in one body of work, by putting rape and sexual assault at the center of the story line, really elevated the topic. all of which brings us to number two on our ten most. something we are calling, after some deliberation, the reckoning. the wave of sexual harassment and assault accusations and dismissals in certainly more than one industry. i have been silenced for 20 years. i have been slut shamed. i have been harassed. i ve been maligned. and you know what? i m just like you. mr. moore attacked me when i was a child. i did nothing to deserve this sexual attack.