“I started talking about Harvey the minute that it happened. Literally, I exited that hotel room at the Peninsula Hotel in 1997 and came straight downstairs to the lobby, where my dad was waiting for me, because he happened to be in Los Angeles from Kentucky, visiting me on the set. And he could tell by my face—to use his words—that something devastating had happened to me. I told him. I told everyone.” Among a multitude of other news stories that seemed to normalize abnormality, 2017 will be etched in history as the year when people finally started listening to what women like Ashley Judd were telling them. Time’s Person of the Year is The Silence Breakers: The Voices That Launched a Movement.

+ Backlash: It’s not a coincidence that the MeToo movement happened during a year when Donald Trump (leader of the Me movement) is in the White House. What’s amazing is that Trump (to many, the ultimate example of someone who got away with sexual harassment) was Time’s Person of the Year in 2016. Even more amazing, this line from one year ago: “‘To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor,’ Trump told Matt Lauer in an interview.”

+ On the same day as Time made its announcement, a slew of Democratic Senators called on Al Franken to resign. (And that comes a day after John Conyers announced his resignation.)

+ And yet another amazing article on the incredible amount of time and effort (and teamwork) it took to develop and maintain Harvey Weinstein’s Complicity Machine. “I’m Harvey Weinstein,” he used to say. “You know what I can do.” (We do now, Harvey. We do now…)