Eric schneiderman new yorker magazine
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“I hope the book will help people heal," Selvaratnam explains. ”I want people to know that they’re not alone. By sharing our stories, we do our part to chip away at the conditioning that perpetuates the cycle of violence.”
Publicly, Schneiderman and Governor Andrew Cuomo both actively advocated for women’s rights, but privately both behaved egregiously toward women. Had Schneiderman not been exposed and subsequently resigned, he would have been the attorney general charged with investigating Cuomo for allegations of sexually harassing at least 11 women.
Today, New York state has two women in top political positions: Letitia James is the first kvinnlig and first Black attorney general, and Kathy Hochul is the state’s first female governor.
“Both these outcomes were unintended and unexpected,” says Selvaratnam. “I don’t credit myself with these outcomes, but they are a testament to the power of storytelling. And if change can’t happen top-down, it can happen ground-up, swelling with
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Manning Barish broke up with Schneiderman a second time, and then got back together with him. He’d been talking about marrying her, she says, and she somehow convinced herself that the real problem between them was her fear of commitment. In January, , she ended the relationship a third time, feeling degraded. After that, they got together romantically a few more times, but since she has been in touch with him only sporadically.
Since the #MeToo movement began, Manning Barish has been active on social-media platforms, cheering on women who have spoken out, including those whose accusations prompted the resignation of the Minnesota senator Al Franken, a widely admired Democrat. Once, she made an oblique reference to Schneiderman on social media, in connection with a political issue. He called her and, in a tone that she describes as “nasty,” said, “Don’t ever write about me. You don’t want to do that.” Manning Barish says that she took his remarks as a threat, just as she took serio