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    I’ve been called a whore for my part in the #MeToo campaign. It won’t stop me | Asia Argento

    Since accusing Harvey Weinstein of rape, I have been vilified in Italy. But I’ve got a message for these predatory enablers
    by Asia Argento Apr 20, 2018 6 minutes
    LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 09: Asia Argento attends the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 9, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) / Getty Images

    Whore. Liar. Traitor. Opportunist.

    I have been called all of these things and more since I first began to speak out last October about being raped in 1997, when I was 21 years old, by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. For speaking my truth, I have been slut-shamed, victim-blamed, bullied, and threatened on a daily basis. And I am not alone.

    Women everywhere, emboldened by the #MeToo movement, have had the courage to share their most painful private traumas in public, only to face blanket denials and further assaults, this time on their character, their credibility, their dignity.

    Six months after the Weinstein story broke in the New York Times and the New Yorker, more and more high-profile establishment figures, from motivational speaker to , are also feeling emboldened – not to confess their cowardice as shameless spectators but to denounce the #MeToo movement. It’s open season on survivors. The larger our number, and the more outspoken we are, it seems, the

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