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Julianne Escobedo Shepherd Quotes

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“One of journalism’s most important tasks is exposing the hypocrisy of the powerful.”
— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Tagged: Journalism, Hypocrisy
“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 “slap” a 34-year-old celebrity who she says took it too far.”
— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Babe, What Are You Doing?
Tagged: Sexual Coercion, MeToo, #metoo, The Culture of Consent, The Complexity of Consent, Prioritizing Male Desire, The Male Gaze, Power Structures, Imbalance of Power, Gender Socialization
“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 relax, let’s chill” is absolutely a verbal direction for Ansari to slow down. That he did not, and that Grace says she felt pressured to go along with it, exposes cracks in the modern dating contract; even if Ansari were not a famous man, the fact that Grace perceived him to possess enough power that she felt coerced is a statement about the ways women are conditioned, even with decades of entrenched feminism, to concede to that perceived power.”
— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Tagged: Pop Culture, Power Imbalance, Power, Consent, Celebrities, Dating
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