Complexity Quote by Vanessa Grigoriadis

“Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities.” quote by Vanessa Grigoriadis — Download Open image

“Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities.”

Vanessa Grigoriadis

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Complexity Victim

More by Vanessa Grigoriadis

An interesting reversal is happening right now. The college women who kicked all this off have been superseded in the mainstream media by celebrities…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

As Americans, we do love punishment.

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Believe women first. I think this is very important. We must believe women first, and if the evidence truly stacks against them - in…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript -…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

Students at residential universities often live together and spend time on activities that aren't connected with the university. Then, should the university's rules about sexual consent extend to students' private lives? In my book, I argue that these narrow rules should extend to students' private lives no matter what or where they happen to be conducting those lives. The logic…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all sides of…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

After studying dozens of sexual assault cases, it is clear to me that the "he said/she said" aspect is a big part of what…

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Image

Explore all 22 Vanessa Grigoriadis quotes

More Complexity quotes

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

Tony Hoare

Image

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…

John L. Casti

Image

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

Penelope Cruz

Image

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

Kenneth E. Boulding

Image

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

Ted Waitt

Image

We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby…

Christoffer Boe

I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you care.You have to unlearn to know the lesson. You have to give up because you are strong.You have to be wrong to make things right.Nonetheless, life's complexities are also life's source of beauty. We should cry…

Anonymous