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#OnThisDay, 15 Oct 2017, Alyssa Milano suggests people use Tarana Burke's phrase "Me too" if they have ever been sexually harassed or assaulted. It becomes a worldwide phrase to highlight harassment and abuse.
Screenshot of the early "me too" tweets. One reads "Suggested by a friend - if all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'me too' as a status we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem."
Time's 'Person of the Year' cover for 2017, with a photo of some of the women involved in the MeToo movement.
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