When the MeToo movement barreled through our cultural norms, there were two extreme observations: All men are predatory or women are lying. Either every man was guilty or every woman was exaggerating.
Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, 70, is currently serving a 23-year sentence in New York after being convicted of sexual assault. The original instigator who sparked the movement, Weinstein was convicted and sentenced last week to an additional 16 years in prison for charges of rape and sexual assault a second time.
This demonstrates the gravity of the consequences of being a woman in Weinstein’s orbit and that, in reality, neither of these observations are wholly true. In some cases, this particular man proved himself to be a near-constant predator and none of the women he assaulted were lying.
