The Powerful Detail You Probably Missed On Time Magazine’s #MeToo Cover

The 2017 Time Person of the Year is “the silence breakers,” or the many “individuals who set off a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment” announced the magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal in a statement on Today. The cover image featured five women who helped spearhead the conversation around sexual misconduct and assault in the workplace—Ashley Judd, Taylor Swift, formed Uber engineer Susan Fowler, lobbyist Adama Iwu and strawberry picker Isabel Pascal. Upon closer inspection, you’ll see an anonymous elbow in the bottom righthand corner.

This anonymous elbow is intentional. Felsenthal noted the faceless women, explaining that she is symbolic of all those people who aren’t able to come forward or who never had an opportunity to, and those who want to but never will for fear of repercussions. “This is the fastest moving social change we’ve seen in decades and it began with individual acts of courage by hundreds of women – and some men, too – who came forward to tell their own stories,” Felsenthal told NBC News, calling the individuals “the silence breakers.”