Hollywood is in an uproar over the new #metoo movement. This new movement involves many sexual harassment and assault accusation being leveled against many prominent men within film industry. Many accusation have been thrown around, most of which have been brought to light in a short period of time. This brings up the question, why only now are all these actuations being brought to light? The catalyst for the #metoo movement recent popularity was Rose McGowan’s sexual harassment allegation against Harvey Weinstein. The hashtag when viral after a tweet form Alyssa Milano, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet”. While the #metoo has popularized by the tweet, “. . . the #MeToo movement [began] in 2006, which encourages women …show more content…
After the first accusation against Weinstein came into public knowledge a group of women referred as the silence breakers added their own accusation against Weinstein. Then more women start to accuse not only Weinstein but also other prominent men. “When multiple harassment claims bring down . . . Matt Lauer, women who thought they had no recourse see a new, wide-open door.” (Zacharek and others). One expiation for they all these women choose now to bring up these claims because there is a safely in numbers. Some of the women making accusation are claiming they stayed silent out of threat of death, for example actress Selma Blair said, “He said if I ever wronged him, he would . . . throw me into the Hudson river”. The women could feel safer speaking out because the Spartacus effect. The Spartacus effect is based off the story of the roman gladiator Spartacus who led a rebellion against Roman. When the Roman’s captured Spartacus and his co-revolutionaries, they ask the men to give up Spartacus, to which the men all started to calm they were Spartacus. They did this so the Romans would