2017 has become the year of the rich, old predators, from President Trump in the White House to Bill O’Reilly’s ousting from Fox News and Bill Cosby’s trial for sexual assault. In early October, the New York Times reported on Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexually predatory behavior, and this week, sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey surfaced.

Each of these scandals traced a familiar pattern: the actions of powerful men continually shocking and disgusting us as we move on from one scandal to the next. What’s different this time is that women from all walks of life have taken to social media to proclaim that sexual harassment and assault is a common experience in most of our lives, by tweeting #MeToo.