Second Assessment, level 2 health.
Questions; ‘She Said’
What happened briefly in the movie, ‘She Said’? New York Times reporters, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, work together and break one of the most important stories in a generation that held many people under long decades of silence when it came to their own experience with sexual assault in Hollywood, which still continues to this day. This movie revolves around the stories of Harvey Weinstein.
What makes sharing personal stories and experiences so powerful? I think sharing many stories is powerful because of how many people share their experience and the more attention it gets if it’s talked about more then it’ll get to more people and then those people will talk and it will get people with a bigger voice than others. The attention makes it bigger, the bigger the story the more it’s likely to be dealt with.
What does the word ‘consent’ mean? The word ‘consent’ means “The permission from one person to another/others for something to happen, or an agreement to do something.” In a sexual context it is a way to “make sure that both party’s or more are on the same page when trying to continue with sexual intercourse”.
“Powerful men of an older generation are changing their thoughts of the word ‘consent’ “. Quote by Harvey Weinstein’s spokesperson, what does this quote mean to you. What it means to me is that the older generation weren’t taught consent and if they were aware of the word they didn’t care for it but as the younger generation got exposed to the word more often through social media it became something they would talk about more often and people, especially powerful older men, would be held accountable for their lack of knowledge and ignorance for the meaning of consent more often as well.
Why might women NOT speak up about their experience before the reporters talked to them? Why might they try to move on? The women that were approached by the reporters at first didn’t want to share because they were scared, the man who had done that to them was very powerful and had a lot of money, he had the power to pay off anyone’s silence. Making the women feel alone in their struggles.
Which other businesses/aspects of society might the issues/concerns of this movie be relevant to? Anywhere when there is a power difference like, modelling, schools, big companies with a CEO states. For a place with higher or lower power differences, there is a chance for people to be able to take advantage of their power.