Person of the Year: Time magazine explains mystery arm

ENGLAND
BBC News

December 7, 2017

The faces of five women who have spoken out about sexual harassment appear on Time magazine’s Person of the Year front cover – along with a mystery right arm. But whose is it?

If you simply glanced at the front cover of the latest Time magazine you may have missed it – an apparently rogue right arm poking into shot.

The faces of five women – including singer Taylor Swift and actor Ashley Judd – feature on the magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year cover.

The quintet represent the “the Silence Breakers” – “the thousands of people across the world who have come forward with their experiences of sexual harassment and assault” this year, the magazine says.

However, in the bottom right-hand corner of the cover is the arm of an anonymous woman, with the remainder of her body deliberately cropped out of shot.

Helpfully, the magazine has now explained who the arm belongs to and why it’s there.

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