If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous eighteen years? This is the essential conundrum. Can we teach these relatively young dogs new tricks? I believe that we can.
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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.
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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