Later in 2018, Roiphe published an essay at the height of the #metoo movement, against the so-called whisper network in Hollywood. Sexual harassment IS an “everyday experience”, that doesn’t mean we soften the definition, Katie. Roiphe first ruffled feathers with her book The Morning After in the mid-90s which essentially argued that college and date rape statistics had been inflated to encourage fear in young women and that things like catcalling, jokes in poor taste, and unwanted touching weren’t sexual harassment as feminists would have you believe, but rather “everyday experiences”. Katie Roiphe has long been a person of controversy - or as the book jacket likes to call it - a “cultural lightning rod”. I rage read this one so you don’t have to.
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