Five years ago, hundreds of women began making public what had been an open secret in the entertainment industry for decades: bullying culture. Far from closing #MeToo movement now regain strength with a power new wave of trials involving the unfortunate Harvey Weinstein.
The filmmaker, who was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a New York court in 2020 in the movement’s most notorious case, New process in Los Angeles (USA) charged with eleven charges breach Y sexual abuse to five victims.
Return to court, when fully executed five years of complaints Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado (USA), says that as one of Hollywood’s most important men, the #MeToo hashtag shows that it’s more than just a snapshot slogan.
“#MeToo’s most important achievement is How do the powerful use their tools to sexually abuse women? and creating a public concept that shames the abusers instead of embarrassing the victims,” explains the author of ‘The Feminist War on Crime’ to EFE.
In the next few weeks actors Danny Masterson, Kevin the alien and director Paul Haggis. All were charged with alleged sexual harassment and abuse crimes, which follow the same pattern of intimidation and abuse of power dynamics.
The case against Weinstein will begin the day after it began in the same building, the Clara Shortridge Foltz Crime Center in Los Angeles, Oral hearing of ‘That ’70s Show’ protagonist, Masterson, arrested on three counts of rape in 2020 At her home in Hollywood Hills.
The actress, who lost her millionaire contract with Netflix as the accusations came to light, has always denied her guilt and claimed that it all stemmed from a campaign organized by the Church of Scientology after her abrupt departure.
But if something has been achieved #MeToo will speed up the fall times for everyone flagged: Kevin Spacey leaves the cast of the series he starred in‘House of Cards’ also has to pay the producer $31 million for breach of contract as soon as the first complaints against it surface.
“An environment has been created where many women break down their own barriers and voice their abuses.. As a result, many people realized that there was a reality out there that they didn’t want to face,” says Jennifer Becker, senior attorney and legal director of Legal Momentum, the oldest legal advocacy group for women, from EFE. United States.
YeahPacey, who won two Oscars, will testify in a New York court this month For a complaint made by an actor in the US, unlike the process that is also open in the UK. His case demonstrates that #MeToo has also impacted the LGTBQ community and goes beyond the entertainment world.
Aya says #MeToo is a “truly international” movement because of the internet’s virality and stories featuring famous people, not just in the United States but around the world. “We’ve seen women in every country talk about the abuse and harassment they’ve been subjected to, having to hide for fear of being blamed,” she adds.
The collapse of politicians Andrew CuomoNew York Governor and Copenhagen Mayor Frank Jensen; and entrepreneurs like Lululemon’s manager Laurent Potdevin and Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich, and even sports stars like the coach of US gymnastics team Larry Nassar are just a few examples of chips falling into this domino.
As complaints continue to pile up in the courts, gender experts agree that the next step for #MeToo is to get into the legislature. For now, the US Congress has already passed legislation regulating the protocol for companies to respond to harassment cases.
“If women continue to be under-represented and without reaching positions of power, the dynamics of vulnerability will continue to evolve where situations of abuse or harassment are more common, and progress towards equality will not be possible,” Becker says.