A survey of women in the film industry finds that the culture around abuse and misconduct has only somewhat improved post MeToo, proving there's still a lot of work to do.
A survey taken by professionals in the film and television industry finds that employees still face harassment five years after the #MeToo Movement. The movement was a watershed moment in pop culture spurred on by two New York Times reporters, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who helped expose producer Harvey Weinstein of the decades of sexual and psychological abuse he perpetrated against women in the industry.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The #MeToo movement encouraged women and men to come forward with allegations against others in the industry who have sexually harassed or abused them. Often the abusers were powerful enough to be protected by studios willing to sweep their behavior under the rug, settle with victims out of court, or were enabled by other systems of complicity surrounding them, using assistants and other employees to help minimize or hide their actions.
Despite Little Change, #MeToo Is Still Critical While #MeToo diminished the career of Kevin Spacey and a few other abusers, there are areas where harassment is still rampant, female composers citing that the movement barely made a dent on their part of the industry. This doesn't lessen the impact that #MeToo had and continues to have. It opened the door for victims of abuse to be able to step forward and lent credence to their words and power to their voices.
It's essential that culturally the actions and words of sexual abusers and bullies continue to be called out, whether in Hollywood or any other industry. Making films like She Said or Barbarian to continue bringing attention to the issue could be a vital component. Actual change can't happen overnight, and it has to be continually worked at, shifting incrementally until systems that continue to protect abusers changes on fundamental levels.
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