Gloria Steinem sees your worries about backlash to the #MeToo movement and is unmoved.
When HuffPost caught up with her for a few minutes at the Makers Conference in Hollywood on Tuesday, the 83-year-old feminist icon was clearly excited and hopeful about the global movement, in which increasing numbers of women are telling their stories of sexual harassment, assault and rape. As part of this wave, more than a few powerful men have lost jobs over credible accusations.
Women have experienced these things for eons, Steinem said.
?It?s not new except in its numbers, which is very important. So now it?s like a tidal wave,? Steinem told HuffPost on Tuesday. ?What?s profoundly different: It is a majority movement,? she said.
Crucially, she added, ?Women are being believed for the first time ever.?