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What Terry Richardson Tells Me About the Grey Line of Consent
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"I do not think that Terry Richardson is a criminal, any more than I think that the number of nice young men who’ve subjected me to less than consensual sexual acts deserve to be in jail. I think that Terry Richardson is a powerful man who benefits from a system that privileges protecting the reputations of men over promoting the safety of women, even young women far too vulnerable to truly advocate for themselves. We have this idea of rape, or sexual assault if you prefer, as a black and white sort of transgression involving an evil, cartoonish villain who defiles an innocent waif. We have this idea of rape, or sexual assault, as something that is incredibly clear in the moment, of something you know when you see it, of something that isn’t tangled up in all the vagaries and grey areas of every day life: as though rape, alone and by itself, manages to be the one thing in life that’s a very clear matter of right and wrong."