I started media-men s**t list

THE woman behind the “Sh--ty Media Men” list has come forward in a first-person essay detailing her decision to compile the document and the outrage that ensued.

Freelance journalist Moira Donegan says in a New York magazine piece published Wednesday that the list of sexual-misconduct allegations was an attempt to solve the problem of “how women can protect ourselves from sexual harassment and assault.”

“I only wanted to create a place for women to share their stories of harassment and assault without being needlessly discredited or judged,” Donegan writes.

“The hope was to create an alternate ave- nue to report this kind of behavior and warn others without fear of retaliation.”

The spreadsheet document — which went viral in October after an article about its existence was posted on BuzzFeed — lists a slew of men and details their alleged misconduct.

The allegations shocked the industry as some scrambled to check who was on the list — and were invited to add more names. Some wrote that providing a space for the anonymously sourced allegations was reckless.

But the list became a cause celebre this week, when news broke that writer Katie Roiphe was about to expose its creator in an article for Harper’s magazine.

The threat of such exposure lead to outrage among women on social media and denunciation of both Roiphe and Harpers.

Digital producer Ana Breton, of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” tweeted on Tuesday, “if we ALL say we wrote the list, they can’t attack one specific person.” The post led to an “I’m Spartacus” type moment on Twitter, with dozens of other writers claiming to have created the list.

Roiphe later told The New York Times Tuesday that she was not going to out anyone. But Donegan said that in December, she was contacted by a Harper’s fact checker who asked if she was the creator, implying that Harper’s was close to publishing her name.