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Harvey Weinstein is now officially a convicted rapist, but anyone else thinking there’s no real #TimesUp victory here?

Maxine Page
8 min readFeb 29, 2020

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Harvey Weinstein’s guilty conviction was hailed as a “victory” for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, but was it really?

Am I the only woman who thinks it means shit, that he’ll likely squirm his way out of it, or into some cushy pretend prison pad scenario, and that nothing will actually goddamn change?

Weinstein hobbled his way into the courtroom on Monday 24th February 2020 for his day of reckoning.

He was leaning on a zimmer frame, looking like a frail old man who couldn’t hurt a fly — let alone sexually assault, rape, grope and make life a living hell for so many women.

The true number of his victims will likely never really be known, although there’s been 80 females who have been brave enough to go public so far — all with chillingly similar stories to tell.

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Maxine Page
Maxine Page

Written by Maxine Page

Maxine Page is a Brit-born ex-tabloid editor who spent 16-yrs selling her soul to Hollywood. Now she travels, writes, paints & makes weird shit.

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