“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…”— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, jezebel.comTagged: 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 “…”— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, jezebel.comTagged: Sexual Coercion, MeToo, #metoo, The Culture of Consent, The Complexity of Consent