I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a specter from the book's outset.
As Americans, we do love punishment. - Vanessa Grigoriadis
As Americans, we do love punishment.
- Vanessa Grigoriadis
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion. This way of moving throu… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion. This way of moving throu…
A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of a pseudonym given to you… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of a pseudonym given to you…
I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman w… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman w…
Let's reach the students who will abide by a "yes means yes" standard in sexual behavior and reeducate them to use it. And as more and more of them u… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
Let's reach the students who will abide by a "yes means yes" standard in sexual behavior and reeducate them to use it. And as more and more of them u…
I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as well, that there are d… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as well, that there are d…
Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities. - Vanessa Grigoriadis
Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities.
We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally ar… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally ar…
I don't think we get the degree to which technological mediums like Snapchat and Instagram are also changing our relationships. I think we will learn… - Vanessa Grigoriadis
I don't think we get the degree to which technological mediums like Snapchat and Instagram are also changing our relationships. I think we will learn…
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