We had fun? The limits of a consent framework in the bold type
1. “We had fun[?]”
The Limits of a Consent Framework
in Freeform’s The Bold Type
Dr. Sarah E. Erickson
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5. “Well, I talk about this stuff all the time with my guy
friends...Over dinner, over texts, but never in public.”
Editor's Notes
Cat Person by Kristen Roupenien
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person
Used the same first name
Consent presented as black and white and cat person challenged a lot of these assumptions
The Bold Type dares to wade into these muddy waters/ nuanced/ complicated.
What happens to Alex
The limits of “consent culture” and black and white thinking (possibly tie in cancel culture?)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/the-bold-type-consent-episode-alex
Show runner - wants to have difficult conversations, get in the mud, make things complicated
Lasher said she thinks there are “very few examples” of how men have successfully handled their own public reckonings, accusations, and allegations in regards to sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault, but that “there is room for people to look back on their behavior and genuinely grow from it.”
“As much as we’d love for there to be a simple clean answer to these to some of these situations, there’s not,” she said.
https://www.tvguide.com/news/the-bold-type-katie-stevens-meghann-fahy-aisha-dee-consent-cancel-culture/
Screw consent, sexual citizens
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The Limits of a Consent Framework
in Freeform’s The Bold Type
Dr. Sarah E. Erickson](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/wehadfunthelimitsofaconsentframeworkintheboldtype-210117143356/85/We-had-fun-The-limits-of-a-consent-framework-in-the-bold-type-1-320.jpg?cb=1610894113)
