The Story Behind Amanda Palmer’s Agonizing, Gorgeous, Deeply Sad & Transcendent Video for “Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now”
Today marks exactly one year to the day that The New York Times first brought film executive Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse into the news cycle. Following on the Bill Cosby victim stories which had surfaced prior to that, and the Access Hollywood tape of Trump cavalierly bragging that he just grabbed women whenever he felt like it (“when you’re famous, they let you do it”), the Weinstein story was like a massive mulch-covered rock that had been suddenly moved to reveal hundreds of squirming bugs.
And out it all came into the light; it was a violent earthquake that couldn’t be stopped once it had begun. And then, the accompanying tsunami. Because every woman has memories of being touched, groped, raped, kissed inappropriately at one time or another in their lives.
This avalanche birthed the #MeToo movement and it goes on and on, daily, because these stories will never end. These are our lives. Remarkably, it’s now permissible to share these memories with others, and grieve, and get up, and work, realizing that we are still alive and awake.
And when we have the courage to step forward in front of the world stage, as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford did this week during Brett Kavanaugh’s…
