Olivia Munn wrote an op-ed for Entertainment Weekly about the growing number of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood’s heavy hitters. She had previously shared her own experience with sexual harassment in Hollywood, becoming a vocal advocate for change.

“My experience with [director] Brett Ratner enforced in me the belief that I deserve to be here and that I should be able to reach for my dreams without being harassed and abused, no matter what economic or social position I find myself in,” she wrote. “How will anyone know you’re worth it if you don’t?”

“When people ask how these men in powerful positions were able to hurt so many people for so many years, I look to the people at the top and ask those questions,” she said. “The system that lets men like Ratner and [Woody] Allen back in, is the same system that creates disparity. It’s tilted to roll back into their favor while the rest of us are saddled with a Sisyphean task. Imagine Hollywood as a mountain with all of the powerful people positioned at the top. The rest of us have to push a boulder up this hill while running through numerous gauntlets and any abuse we encounter is just par for the course and accepted. I know it’s acceptable abuse because no matter how badly certain people f— up, they fall right back to their position of power while most people have to go to the back of the line and earn their way back up.”

“If you’re already at the top or on your way there, please don’t hold us back anymore. Instead, stand with the rest of us—because the glass ceiling that hangs over me is the same glass ceiling that will hang over your daughters, sisters, nieces…”

Read the rest at Entertainment Weekly.