Blurred Lines author
Vanessa Grigoriadis says female
college students were once told to protect themselves from sexual
assault by learning self-defense. Now, the focus is on
changing men's
behavior.
TERRY GROSS (
Transcript): The
Kavanaugh hearings and
confirmation raised the question again,
How do we decide who to believe
when a woman says she was sexually assaulted by someone she knows behind
a closed door and the man denies it? That's an issue universities have
been grappling with.
Guest Vanessa Grigoriadis is the author of
Blurred Lines: Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus. Over the course of three years, she
interviewed 120 students from 20 universities, spoke with nearly 80
administrators and experts, and read dozens of case reports.
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She says
that while writing the book, she witnessed a historic moment when
survivors moved from the shadows to the spotlight, first on campus, and
then nationwide with the
#MeToo movement. Grigoriadis is a contributing
editor at
The New York Times Magazine and
Vanity Fair and has won a
National Magazine Award.
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You know, you write in your book that there's a new understanding
of
what rape and sexual assault means that started on college campuses,
but with the #MeToo movement, it spread beyond campuses.
What did the
Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation tell you about how far that new
understanding has spread? I guess what I'm asking you is this,
If the
Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee had gone to college
campuses, what... More
Blurred Lines author Vanessa Grigoriadis says female
college students were once told to protect themselves from sexual
assault by learning self-defense. Now, the focus is on changing men's
behavior.
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