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blogslut

(38,019 posts)
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 08:55 AM Dec 2017

The Silence Breakers: TIME's Person of the Year

http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers-choice/

It became a hashtag, a movement, a reckoning. But it began, as great social change nearly always does, with individual acts of courage. The actor who went public with the story of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s “coercive bargaining” in a Beverly Hills hotel suite two decades earlier. The strawberry picker who heard that story and decided to tell her own. The young engineer whose blog post about the frat-boy culture at Silicon Valley’s highest-flying startup prompted the firing of its founder and 20 other employees. The California lobbyist whose letter campaign spurred more than 140 women in politics to demand that state government “no longer tolerate the perpetrators or enablers” of sexual misconduct. A music superstar’s raw, defiant court testimony about the disc jockey who groped her.

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The Silence Breakers: TIME's Person of the Year (Original Post) blogslut Dec 2017 OP
WOO HOO! GOOD JOB! HAB911 Dec 2017 #1
Great choice Soxfan58 Dec 2017 #2
I hope next year is Mueller for removing all the traitors OliverQ Dec 2017 #4
Your right Soxfan58 Dec 2017 #6
I'm hoping for both somehow IronLionZion Dec 2017 #11
Not likely OnlinePoker Dec 2017 #17
I didn't know how much I wanted them to be the POTY until I saw this! 50 Shades Of Blue Dec 2017 #3
Better choice than Trump dembotoz Dec 2017 #5
Time only picked the Silence Breakers because Trump declined to be Person of the Year EffieBlack Dec 2017 #14
I was thinking the same thing. Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2017 #23
In your face, Mr. President! oasis Dec 2017 #7
I heard they originally selected one Donald J. Drumpf as silence breaker in chief IronLionZion Dec 2017 #8
Lol. They SHOULD have at least featured his face in this article. Hortensis Dec 2017 #10
Women are kicking up!!! bdamomma Dec 2017 #9
Aim high IronLionZion Dec 2017 #12
Whohoo!! Great choice. lark Dec 2017 #13
Yessss! I love this. Glimmer of Hope Dec 2017 #15
ONLY because trump didnt want it remember. Garion_55 Dec 2017 #16
And Trump is the GrOPer of the Year. It is intorerable that he retains immunity for his crimes. L. Coyote Dec 2017 #18
Had to be a woman, or group of women... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #19
Excellent choice! GoCubsGo Dec 2017 #20
Also The Code Breakers. This time breaking the societal code of silence. Fred Sanders Dec 2017 #21
The unseen woman in the lower right is the most powerful indictment procon Dec 2017 #22

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)
2. Great choice
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 08:59 AM
Dec 2017

My prediction for next year. Times person of the year 2018 will be Women! For taking the midterm elections by storm

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
4. I hope next year is Mueller for removing all the traitors
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 09:03 AM
Dec 2017

from the government and restoring Democracy.

IronLionZion

(45,563 posts)
11. I'm hoping for both somehow
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:16 AM
Dec 2017

Mueller for removing the traitors and energized women/minorities/liberals/etc. for sweeping much better candidates into office in an epic landslide


OnlinePoker

(5,727 posts)
17. Not likely
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:53 AM
Dec 2017

Time Inc has been (or is being) bought out by a company partially owned by the Koch brothers. I expect their journalistic integrity to drop into the toilet.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
23. I was thinking the same thing.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 07:07 PM
Dec 2017

You know Trump Cult is real when you look at all his supporters who believed that most obvious and pathetic lie.

IronLionZion

(45,563 posts)
8. I heard they originally selected one Donald J. Drumpf as silence breaker in chief
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 09:49 AM
Dec 2017

but he declined because he was awarded biggest asshole last year and didn't want to be bothered for a second photo shoot because he needs to screw all of us over to make taxes great again for the robber barons.

He's still in the running for biggest sexual assaulter who is still in power and has not been publicly shamed out of office yet.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Lol. They SHOULD have at least featured his face in this article.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:10 AM
Dec 2017

I notice Leanne Tweeden's name is only mentioned once and no photo either, even though she's young and attractive enough for this selection and was first out of the gate after Moore got in hot water. Wonder what that means.

Fox shark Megyn Kelly is named 9 times and is featured with a large picture and quote.

Did I miss pictures of Moore's aged accusers? Moore's 14-year-old victim Leigh Corfman, courtesy of WaPo of course, was the first to speak out.

After Trump, also of course.

Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
16. ONLY because trump didnt want it remember.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 10:35 AM
Dec 2017

Everyone (on AM hate radio) knows (has no clue) that trump could have been 'Best Human ever even greater than Jesus and Deity of the Year' but he didnt have time (fat ass eating cheeseburgers) to do a photo shoot (#onlydoesrightwingmedia)

these womens should feel grateful that trump let them have this even though its fake news and the women who accused him are liars so vote for moore!

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
18. And Trump is the GrOPer of the Year. It is intorerable that he retains immunity for his crimes.
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 11:14 AM
Dec 2017

Hopefully, more of trump's victims will decide to speak out.



Great to see this release just a few days before the Alabama Senator vote. Maybe other Moore victims will decide to speak out too.

Wounded Bear

(58,741 posts)
19. Had to be a woman, or group of women...
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 11:19 AM
Dec 2017

Consider all of the women who have been motivated to run for office this year and next.

Change is (hopefully) coming.

procon

(15,805 posts)
22. The unseen woman in the lower right is the most powerful indictment
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 12:25 PM
Dec 2017

of our times. Until we address the lack of equality and implement full women's rights, a large segment of the population will remain trapped in the shadows.

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