In the next 48 hours, nearly a million people used the #MeToo hashtag. The hashtag took off in October after the actor Alyssa Milano encouraged women who had experienced sexual mistreatment to say so under the banner of “me too”. The Time shortlist also included the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, NFL player and activist Colin Kaepernick, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins. Time had said Trump’s claim was “incorrect”. To many, it was just as significant who failed to “win” the title: Donald Trump, who had claimed to have taken a “pass” on an interview and “major photo shoot” for Time last month because he was only “probably” going to be named its person of the year. They’re part of a movement that has no formal name. They might labor in California fields, or behind the front desk at New York City’s regal Plaza Hotel, or in the European parliament. “The women and men who have broken their silence span all races, all income classes, all occupations and virtually all corners of the globe. “It doesn’t have a leader, or a single, unifying tenet,” reads Time’s cover story.
Time said it was conveying the award not just to the women who sparked the #MeToo movement on social media but to the uncountable women and men whose private actions and public bravery drove the culture to its current tipping point. Today host Savannah Guthrie acknowledged that this year’s winner hits “close to home” and mentioned Lauer by name. The Person of the Year announcement came on a US television show that has itself been rocked by controversy NBC’s Today show, which fired Matt Lauer over sexual assault and harassment claims just one week earlier. I’ve been saying from the beginning it’s not just a moment, it’s a movement,” Burke said on Wednesday.
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The women’s rights activist coined the term while working with sexual violence survivors more than a decade ago, although she has not always received full recognition. Just out of frame – only her arm is visible – is a hospital worker who wished to represent those who can’t speak out.Īmong the many women featured inside Time’s story is Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement’s creator. There was also Ashley Judd, who was among the first women to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment and Taylor Swift, who was celebrated for her testimony against a former DJ who she accused of groping. Time’s Person of the Year cover features Susan Fowler, a former Uber employee whose blog post about Silicon Valley sexism led to thedeparture of CEO Travis Kalanick “Isabel Pascual”, a pseudonymous agricultural worker who has been stalked and harassed by her boss and Adama Iwu, a corporate lobbyist who inspired dozens of women to expose sexual harassment in California’s state capitol.
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