Why the Weinstein verdict feels personal

A little bit of vindication for all the women who said #MeToo

Harvey Weinstein.
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If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote "me too" as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.

Tweeted by actress Alyssa Milano in October 2017 as accusations were building against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, those words would build into a rallying cry louder than anyone at the time could have imagined — a movement that reached a symbolic conclusion Monday, when a jury found Weinstein guilty of a 2006 criminal sex act and a 2013 third-degree rape (he was found not guilty of the alleged predatory sexual assault of Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra in the 1990s).

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.