I have been afraid of speaking out or asking things of men in positions of power for years. What I have experienced as an actress working in a business whose business is to objectify women is frightening. It is the deep end of a pool where I cannot swim. It is a famous man telling you that you are a liar for what you have remembered. For what you must have misremembered, unless you have proof.
This is the lived experience of so many women even far outside of Hollywood, and for women of colour, for trans women, for queer women, it is only worse.
Men hide behind screens or one another – their cowardice is like a beacon in the fog of their narcissism. All women – and men, too – deserve to be free of it.
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