In the last six weeks, ever since the first allegations against Harvey Weinstein of the sexual harassment and assault of dozens of women,

we've seen the emergence of an endless array of new alleged perpetrators who use their power to intimidate or abuse the women or men in their midst.

In a recent article titled, Your Reckoning and Mine, New York Magazine writer Rebecca

Traster explores how this moment shifts our understanding of our past and present and what

may be in store. I spoke to her for this Friday's show,

but decided to offer a version that's much longer, hardly edited at all, to you devoted podcast listeners.

So here it is. Welcome to the show. Oh, I'm happy to be here. Thanks very much for having me.

Now, you wrote The Anger Window is Open. How many emails have you been getting each day?

Well, it varies. It started really the day after the Harvey Weinstein story broke. I wrote a piece about how he had screamed at me as a young reporter

and called me the C-word and had kind of a violent and very loud altercation with me at an event

17 years earlier. That and also because I write about feminism made me a reporter who people

wanted to reach out to on this subject.

And so starting that night, I began to get anywhere between five to 20 emails a day.

Wow.

Mostly women, some men as well, telling me in various ways about predation, harassment, assault, rape, in some cases, that they had suffered.

Some recently, some 40 years ago, some five years ago, some women telling me about

serial harassment, some women telling me about one particularly violent episode,

expressing guilt over having not spoken up,

many of them speaking to me still off the record or under fake addresses because they wanted

to preserve their identities.

That's only a few of them.

Others wanting to speak on the record.

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