
#64 - Blood Money - Part 1: One Bloody Thing After Another
Hard Knox with Amanda Knox
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The Ethics of Telling Stories About Sexual Violence
The very act of telling stories about sexual violence has social consequences. Even if those stories have a victim's right spin, the assaults themselves are often depicted in a lurid way. As Emily Neusbaum at the New Yorker puts it, SVU wavers between PSA and pornography. At its greasiest, SVU becomes a string of rape fantasies, justified by healing truisms.
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