{"id":380682,"date":"2017-12-06T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380682"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:19:00","slug":"time-honours-abuse-silence-breakers-person-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/time-honours-abuse-silence-breakers-person-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Time honours abuse ‘silence breakers’ as Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Time magazine has named “the Silence Breakers” – women who spoke out against sexual abuse and harassment – as its “Person of the Year”.<\/p>\n
The movement is most closely associated with the #MeToo hashtag which sprung up as allegations emerged against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n
But Time says the hashtag is “part of the picture, but not all of it”.<\/p>\n
“This is the fastest-moving social change we’ve seen in decades,” editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said.<\/p>\n
He told NBC’s Today programme that it “began with individual acts of courage by hundreds of women – and some men, too – who came forward to tell their own stories”.<\/p>\n