Mary McNamara: Five years after #MeToo, I am haunted by the stories we could not tell
"Says she was raped by producer." Sometimes, when I least expect it, these words will float across my consciousness and saturate a few hours of my day with anxiety and guilt. They were written on a pink "while you were out" message slip, which was left on my desk sometime in the fall of 2017 under a stack of identical slips with similar messages. It was the height of #MeToo, and like many ...
by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
Nov 11, 2022
4 minutes
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"Says she was raped by producer."
Sometimes, when I least expect it, these words will float across my consciousness and saturate a few hours of my day with anxiety and guilt.
They were written on a pink "while you were out" message slip, which was left on my desk sometime in the fall of 2017 under a stack of identical slips with similar messages.
It was the height of #MeToo, and like many media platforms the Los Angeles Times was deluged by women reaching out to report sexual harassment and assault by high-profile men, many in Hollywood.
Thousands of women, emboldened first by the on , took to social media
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