In an interview about your book with The Atlantic, you mention that the standards for assault are changing between generations. What serious setbacks do these ideological differences pose in the reporting of assault or rape and the action taken?
Well, the big issue is that older people (Gen-X, Boomers) don’t have the same standard for assault that millennials and particularly young millennials do. Older Americans don’t consider groping assault. They might not even consider sex that’s coerced with anything but a gun to be assault.
What we’re seeing now is that techniques of college activism are already migrating into society as is the sense that sex itself is a worthy focus for activism. Trump’s election and the patriarchy it embodies have drawn the battle lines more sharply, and young women will not back down. I also see a gradual but inexorable awakening among young men. As they leave college and enter the world, many of them will bring with them the wokeness they got at school.
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