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I'm very glad that they didn't go with "Person of the Year: #MeToo" and instead opted to create this exclusive group of "Silence Breakers". It strikes me as very important to separate these accounts from a hashtag which can be used by anyone for anything.

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Same, the most I caught in the news about #MeToo was about the accused men, their excuses, their sudden admission that they were definitely gay to try and distract from the accusation they were pedophiles. That's the association I have with that hashtag, not the people - mostly women - that came forward with it after keeping relatively silent for years.

Why is that important to you? Genuinely curious.

I think it makes it more concrete to have actual victims talking about specifics of their incidents and then applying those to the bigger picture. A hashtag movement is much more abstract and harder for readers to connect to, which would be less powerful and do a lesser job of getting the message across.

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