Moira Donegan is the brave woman who created the “Shitty Men in Media” spreadsheet as a way of warning women in media of men in the business who were serial sexual harassers and sexual assaulters/abusers.
Ms. Donegan was about to be outed as the list’s creator by an article in Harper’s penned by essayist, Katie Roiphe.
Donegan got word of the outing and unmasked herself in a powerful story published late yesterday in The Cut, an online publication of New York Magazine.
I am not going to excerpt it here. It needs to be read in its entirety.
It is a riveting, moving, enraging and, ultimately, empowering account of how she came to create the list, how the list took on a life of its own, and the repercussions of her efforts to warn other women in media of the predators in their midst.
It is an incredible piece that should be required reading for all.