Ashley Judd came out in the open to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexually harassing her. She was 29 at the time. It was 1997 at the start of her career when Harvey invited her for a meeting at a Beverly Hills Hotel. Weinstein attempted to coerce her into bed but she escaped his advances. Judd immediately voiced her ordeal in public “"Literally, I exited that hotel room at the Peninsula Hotel in 1997 and came straight downstairs to the lobby, where my dad was waiting for me, because he happened to be in Los Angeles from Kentucky, visiting me on the set. And he could tell by my face—to use his words—that something devastating had happened to me. I told him. I told everyone."
Judd says her advice to women is to formalize a whisper network and women should never keep such things to themselves. She says that when something is wrong, it is wrong and that definition of wrong should be from the victim’s perspective and not anyone else’s. Weinstein denied her accusations.
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Fowler posted in her blog about the harassment she faced at work. The post went viral and caught the attention of authorities. CEO Travis Kalanick and 20 employees were fired. Fowler revealed how other women faced repercussions when speaking out. She empathized that her intentions were to make the post in her blog as cold and close to the truth as possible so that one could say she was doing it for gain or a suing the company.
“I have to be very, very detached.’ And I had to make sure that every single thing that I included in there had extensive physical documentation, so it couldn’t be ‘he said, she said.’ And that’s what I did.”
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Taylor Swift relates how she was made to feel bad about the fact that her accuser would be facing severe consequences. She had complained about a Denver radio DJ named David Mueller who groped her beneath her skirt during a photo op in 2013. Swift was sued for millions but she instead made a countersuit for just a symbolic fear to vilify her stand, she also testified in August where Mueller’s lawyer even asked her if she felt bad about getting him fired. This is when she stated "I'm not going to let you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault," she told the lawyer. "I'm being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are a product of his decisions. Not mine."
Swift said later that she was fed up of being intimidated and enough was enough, if he could do it to an artist of her status, then think of what he may be doing to hundreds of young vulnerable aspiring artists lacking the courage to come forward. Swift echoed the cry of the #MeToo movement where actors, journalists, hotel workers and even dishwashers felt they had had enough. Shame had turned to outrage and fury.
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