What Does That Really Mean?

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Gers, what nicol remembered and focused on was the part of my story i wasn't sure about whether matthew had drugged me. My friend anthony, who's also good friends with matthew, read my facebook post. He says he struggled to square the story i told him with what he'd heard in a short conversation with matthew. I think he basically felt that you felt something happen that he didn't feel happened. The one thing that i guessed that i always was a little uncertain about is just the sort of intentional, a drugging. That was always the one thing that, ii don't know, e, that's a tough one for me.

Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses that she went back to them years later to record conversations about it all. In this episode: Janey’s story, and philosopher Kate Manne, who coined the term “himpathy” in her 2017 book, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.” With co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee. Part of our summer mini-season of rebroadcasts.

To hear more of Janey Williams’ story and the conversations she had with friends, check out her podcast, "This Happened", available on most podcast apps and at thishappenedpodcast.com.