There are reactions to the Rudin reporting about how it won& #39;t change anything, that he& #39;s one of many in Hollywood like that, that there are so many abusive bosses on a smaller scale that never get attention, etc. Those frustrations are understandable, but one thought:

When we started working on our story, my feeling was, absolute worst-case scenario, it& #39;d make people in positions of power become paranoid about being assholes to their assistants/interns. One thing that struck me after talking to sources who worked for Rudin, though...

...and this has played out in how the story& #39;s been shared: Stories like that, which can be incredibly triggering, can help people recontextualize their own trauma. It can help you realize that things you endured at your own job/etc were not normal or okay. It was abuse.

That& #39;s why I think it& #39;s so important to center the voices of those who were abused in stories like this. Yes, I want to see every single abusive person stripped of their power. But what I want even more is for those who were abused to be given a voice and actively empowered.

Anyway, be cynical if you want! I have that impulse too. But don& #39;t discount that, beyond the people involved in a story, there are total strangers reading/seeing themselves in it, and it might be helping them in ways we& #39;ll never know about. It happens more than you might think.