
Activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” Wednesday night to discuss the mounting allegations of sexual harassment, assault and rape against Harvey Weinstein.
The duo appeared as spokespeople for The Women’s Media Center, a non-profit which Fonda and Steinem co-founded with poet Robin Morgan in 2005. Fonda pointed out that while the Weinstein accusations are a watershed moment for our culture when it comes to sexual harassment, it only happened because most of his accusers are famous white women (with the exception of Lupita Nyong’o).
“It feels like something has shifted,” Fonda told Hayes. “It’s too bad that it’s probably because so many of the women that were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein are famous and white and everybody knows them. This has been going on a long time to black women and other women of color and it doesn’t get out quite the same.”
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