Here’s why Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction was tossed and what happens next

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The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction is an affront to women

#MeToo’s real legacy may not be ending predators’ impunity so much as highlighting the tenacity of that impunityUsually, rape isn’t reported. When it is reported, it is often not charged. And when it is charged, it rarely leads to a conviction. These facts shape both our cultural understanding of sexual violence and women’s sense of their own embodied lives, clarifying something many of us already know – that while sexual violence is technically…