The women who came forward against Harvey Weinstein reacted with fury after the disgraced media mogul’s rape and sexual assault convictions were overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday.
Weinstein, 72, was found guilty in 2020 of raping and assaulting two women, and is serving his 23-year sentence at a prison in upstate New York.
In a 4-3 decision on Thursday, New York’s highest court ruled the original judge made “egregious errors” in the trial by allowing prosecutors to call witnesses whose allegations were not related to the charges at hand.
Weinstein was once one of Hollywood’s most well-connected and powerful producers who made a series of Oscar-winning films. But behind the glamourous facade, it was a different story. More than 80 women have accused him of abuse ranging from groping to rape. Even with his conviction overturned in New York, he remains convicted of rape in California.
The Weinstein revelations launched the #MeToo movement in 2017, which saw women from all corners of society come forward to talk about their experiences of sexual harassment and assault.
Shit like this is the most commonly cited reason as to why women don’t report rape.
The legal system indirectly favours rapists and supports rape, yes, supports rape, with its forest of hoops one must jump through, the male-dominated inquisitions with their nasty, vulgar, insulting weasel-word questions which insinuate and imply and which would never be asked of any man for any reason. It’s such a degrading experience that some women report it as worse than the rape.
edit: there are way too many removed. Calm down, you too can know things if only you bother to try
This is what made the MeToo movement powerful. You need the high number of women coming forward to strengthen each other. It’s a shame it kind of fizzled out but this is proof how deep systematic oppression runs.
I think it fizzled out because of that stupid Aziz Ansari article honestly. The tide seemed to change with that one.