“The story had the unfortunate effect of leaving the door a little wider for self-righteousness, allowing detractors to reiterate their shitty assumptions about millennial women and their motivations instead of questioning a set of injustices so commonplace that many people seem not to register them…”Tagged: Sexual Coercion, MeToo, #metoo, The Culture of Consent, The Complexity of Consent
“There was potential with Grace’s story: the conversations that followed could have given us a real shot at cracking away at the imbalanced sexual power structures that plague us—the power structures that tell us a man’s desires are more significant than a woman’s, and that conditioned Grace not to…”Tagged: Sexual Coercion, MeToo, #metoo, The Culture of Consent, The Complexity of Consent
“It was distressing and it was admirable—journalism is often inaccessible to young people and those lacking privilege; I loved its irreverence, a punch up at the institutions that often guard said privilege—and at times misguided, as though the lesson to be learned from the Aziz story was the…”Tagged: Babe Dot Net, Babe.net, Media Cliff Notes
“In Grace’s account, she told Ansari “Let’s relax for a moment, let’s chill,” when she says he went for a condom too early for her comfort. While it may not have been the “absolutely not” or “fuck no” that tweeters the world over seem to scold Grace for not emitting, in millennial parlance, “let’s…”Tagged: Pop Culture, Power Imbalance, Power, Consent, Celebrities
“One of journalism’s most important tasks is exposing the hypocrisy of the powerful.”Tagged: Journalism, Hypocrisy