Why a Hollywood #MeToo Organization Imploded
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Time’s Up was founded in 2018 in the wake of the #MeToo movement to fight sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace. How, then, was the organization felled by accusations of a toxic work environment and close associations with abusers?
Guest: Lili Loofbourow, staff writer at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | January 7th, 2018 was a good day to host an award show in Los Angeles. |
| 0:10.6 | It was sunny, warm. |
| 0:12.3 | The Golden Globes got started at 5 o'clock sharp. |
| 0:15.8 | Good evening, ladies and remaining gentlemen. |
| 0:21.1 | The host that year was Seth Myers. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the 75th annual Golden Globes and Happy New Year Hollywood. |
| 0:30.1 | As soon as he got on stage, it was clear that there was going to be this thread running through the whole night, a comedic reckoning with sexual harassment. |
| 0:39.8 | Marijuana is finally allowed and sexual harassment finally isn't. |
| 0:46.0 | It's going to be a good year. |
| 0:49.3 | A laundry list of allegations against Harvey Weinstein had been made public a few months earlier. The legal |
| 0:56.0 | case against him was just getting started. And outside the Beverly Hilton that night, on the red |
| 1:01.7 | carpet, the chatter was all about this way women in Hollywood were responding. I could not spot a celebrity |
| 1:09.1 | not wearing black tonight, standing strong with victims of sexual abuse. |
| 1:13.5 | Many actresses had arrived for the globes dressed head to toe in black. |
| 1:18.6 | And many of the men, they were wearing these pins that read simply Times Up. |
| 1:24.7 | This moment feels historic. This has never happened before on this scale. |
| 1:32.2 | I just remember thinking, like, that sounds good, I guess. |
| 1:37.1 | But I didn't know what it would mean in the end, you know? |
| 1:42.6 | It's a really weird framework to impose on any discussion of sexual harassment, right? |
| 1:48.1 | Because it sort of presupposes that there was a time when that was fine. |
| 1:52.9 | But now your time is up. |
| 1:54.8 | I called up Slate's Lily Loofborough to talk about the birth of times up the other day. |
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