Time Magazine Person of the Year: “The Silence Breakers”
I will start the semester off with this developing story, that will likely follow us through the semester. I want to call our attention to some interesting sociological questions:
–Why now?
–Why such a rapid fall from grace (job/career loss, even company bankruptcy) immediately after the reports come out?
–Why is there already a backlash among some women to this “moment” or “reckoning”?
–What are the possibilities of this and barriers to this as a global movement?
–Are all victims being heard? or just those with access to a megaphone?
And… this is an interesting editorial: what about the excuse that men didn’t know what the rules were, or that the rules have suddenly changed?
Susan Pearce