Me Too Movement: How It Began

We were not sure of what would happen next," said Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the reporters at the New York Times, about the moment when their story around Harvey Weinstein went viral and live on the internet.

Weinstein is a Hollywood producer who has since been accused of his sexual misconduct which included rape by more than 70 women. Skeletons have tumbled copiously out of other closets, both in the US and elsewhere in the world when people witnessed scores of women who have said #MeToo, and not just there but the movement flamed up in India. every woman who have been silent from so long got courage from just these two words and spoke up using a simple hashtaag me too, especially our entertainment industry came into light when many renowned personalities were dragged into me too, whether it was Nana Patekar or Sajid Khan all were talked upon while this movement.

The movement also came in the wake of a series of landmark Supreme Court judgements that included the removal of an entry ban on women of menstruating age in a revered Hindu shrine.

Kantor and Twohey, the amazing Times reporters, won one of the world's best-known prize in journalism along with another reporter, Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker, for reporting the "exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators."

TIME magazine also honoured "The Silence Breakers" as its Person of the Year in the year 2017, which referred to victims of the sexual misconduct who have shared their stories.

The Weinstein saga inspired the spread of the #MeToo hashtag, but the original Me Too existed long time before that. Tarana Burke who is an African-American civil rights activist is a sexual assault survivor herself and she created the phrase and started this movement in the mid-2000s.
The Chicago Tribune said that she always wanted to do something for helping women and girls who had also survived this sexual violence.
The MeToo flame was by then well and truly kindled on October 15, 2017; which was ten days after the Kantor-Twohey broke their story and actor Alyssa Milano tweeted a request to all the victims of sexual harassment or assault with the phrase.

By: Prerana Sharma
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