#MeToo Floods Social Media With Stories of Harassment and Assault<br />(Update: Harvey Weinstein is certainly not the first powerful man publicly<br />and credibly accused of sexually harassing or abusing women in recent years, but his fall has opened the floodgates in Hollywood.<br />The comedian and activist Nick Jack Pappas wrote: “Men, Don’t say you have a mother,<br />a sister, a daughter… Say you have a father, a brother, a son who can do better<br />Women are posting messages on social media to show how commonplace sexual assault<br />and harassment are, using the hashtag #MeToo to express that they, too, have been victims of such misconduct.<br />Other celebrities who took part include Anna Paquin, Debra Messing, Laura Dreyfuss, Lady Gaga and Evan Rachel Wood.
