When journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published their bomb-shell 2017 New York Times piece exposing movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s numerous sexual assaults, they couldn’t have foreseen that they had launched a movement. The #MeToo hashtag had been created by activist Tarana Burke long before Weinstein was exposed, but it now exploded as women raced to tag their own stories of sexual harassment, assault and rape on social media.
The pair’s diligent reporting also prompted a radical shift in gender politics in the entertainment industry, among others. From the moment the article landed, actresses rejoiced that a day of reckoning had finally arrived for rapacious Hollywood oligarchs. Studio executives and bigwigs nervously plumbed their memories as the Weinstein effect took hold, with other players falling one by
