December 22, 2017

105 powerful accused of sexual misconduct in 2017

Boing Boing - The Reckoning [vox.com] examines 105 of the powerful people (all but two of them men) who have been accused of sexual misconduct in 2017. Abusers in media and journalism are relatively widely-exposed, whereas those in other fields seem relatively few in number, at least as Vox counts it. In particular, badly-behaved politicians get headlines, but the list is surprisingly short.
More and more people have come forward publicly in recent months with stories like these, of high-ranking men who abuse their power to sexually harass and intimidate others. This kind of abuse is far from new, but in 2017, more and more of these men actually started facing consequences.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Psychopaths seek power so that they can exploit others with impunity. The only way to prevent that is to prevent them getting into positions of power! Surely that can't be hard to understand!