“You seem like a cool girl, not one of those bimbos walking around here.”

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Sep 25, 2020

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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on March 11—the same day the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. He has been in prison for six months.

Angela Meng wasn’t sure if it felt like the right time to tell her story. During an encounter in a hotel room in Hong Kong in 2014, Weinstein told her she seemed like a “cool girl.”

“Cool girls transcend victimhood,” she writes. “Hot enough to be assaulted, cool enough to shrug it off.

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