アンバー・タンブリンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (アンバー・タンブリンInstagram)「For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote about E. Jean Carroll and the ripple effects of a lasting movement to change the systemic abuses of power across industries. “In the summer of 2019, the journalist E. Jean Carroll published a story that would change her life forever. It would continue the reverberation of a social movement that had already changed my life and millions of people’s all over the world. In an article for New York magazine, Carroll accused a very powerful man of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, and not just any powerful man — Donald Trump. When the accusation came out, I was driving across town through Manhattan traffic, just a few blocks away from that very department store. I was instantly pulled back to 2017, when I had published my own story in the New York Times mere months before the #MeToo movement broke wide open the scope of the abuses of power in our country. In the op-ed, I declared that I was done with not being believed. I told the story of a famous actor who tried to pick me up at a diner in Hollywood when I was just 16 years old. Though Carroll’s story and mine are vastly different in many ways, our reasons for sharing them are not. As Carroll said on the stand during a particularly ugly cross-examination by Trump’s defense during their ongoing civil trial, ‘I thought it was time not to stay silent.’ The act of sexual assault or harassment is just one part of the violence women have to endure; the other is living in a world that asks us to stay quiet about it. And we do, because why wouldn’t we? Coming forward means character assassination, intimidation and sometimes endless litigation. It means having to sit on a witness stand in front of the world as Carroll just did and explain that just because you didn’t scream doesn’t mean you weren’t raped. She may not have screamed then, but Trump can damn well hear her now.” Link in bio or in print in tomorrow’s paper, May 4, 2023.」5月4日 7時33分