Transformation. It is the most comprehensive study of Sexual Assault on the campus today. After the talk we will have time for questions and answers and cspan is here with us tonight recording the event if you have a question please hold your hand up and wait and bring the mic. I present dr. Jennifer hirsch. Thank you so much it is great to be here. Thank you so much for coming out. In every room there are always survivors if you start to feel distressed by what im saying its fine to get up and take a break. I will start with the story. Austin was a sweet student. The story of the hot Summer Nights is pretty much the sexiest story in the book. Thats not the story im going to tell. He was a good guy he have a series of nicknames that his girlfriend had. Austen also sexually assaulted someone. He told us the story about freshman year he was in a room with his roommates girlfriends roommate. Roommate has a girlfriend to people get shuffled into the same bedroom together the girl was prett
Different directions and some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to really focus on a small town in oregon. Why . We were running around the world covering humanitarian crises and then we would periodically go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids on my old Number Six School bus are now gone from drugs and alcohol and suicide and carolyn i tried to process that. The guys who got on the bus right after me were the map kid kids. Nathan and keelan and their sister regina, smart, talented kids. One died in a house fire passed out drunk, another blew himself up cooking math and regina died from hepatitis from shooting up. So for a while we wondered is there something about my bus, about yamhill and then we realize this is a National Problem that we have been in despair and the Life Expectancy has been falling for three years of a row and its a microcosm to see that panic a
But to become a television for serious readers. This made good good evening ladies and gentlemen. We are pleased to have with us this evening doctor Jennifer Hirsch professor of medical science at Columbia University who will be reading from and discussing her new book teethree a landmark study of Sexual Assault on campus it is based on a program called Sexual Health initiative to foster transformation. The most comprehensive study on a campus to date. After the talk well have time for questions and answers and cspan is here with us tonight recording the event and i would ask that if you have a question please hold your hand up and wait until i bring you the microphone so we can hear what your question is. I present doctor Jennifer Hirsch. [applause] thank you so much its great to be here and thank you for coming out. In every room there are always survivors. If you feel distressed by what am sharing its okay to take a break. The national Sexual Assault hotline 186564673. I will start
Conversation with a interesting thing i kept coming back around you in your book which i think illuminates a lot of this historical moment and a lot of contradictions we currently have. In your research it seemed that the young men that you talked to have at least the beginnings of an understanding of the changing Politics Around sex and gender and a lot of them even go so far as offer their pronouns. They talk about feminist concepts such as consent and the changing conditions. They all seem haunted by past ideas of masculinity and sexuality. In one case he wrote a young man was critical of the classic markers of masculinity but also aspired to them really feel like the ghost of masculinity and sexuality a lot of the men around and i was hoping you can talk about. Its almost as if they layered all these new expectations on top of all the old ones without really challenging or looking at or eliminating the old ones so theyre in a state of conflict on one hand, guys see women as deservi
An interesting theme i kept coming around to with your book we currently have in your research it seemed that that young man you talk to have at least the beginnings of an understanding of the changing polish Politics Around and gender they offer pronouns i talk about feminist concepts such as consent, sort of these changing conditions they all seem haunted by the idea of masculinity and sexuality. In one case you wrote one man was critical of the markers of masculinity but he aspired to them. Feels like there is a ghost of masculinity and sexuality and is hoping you could talk about that. So its almost as if they layered all of these new expectations on top of the old ones without really challenging or looking at, or eliminating the old ones. They are in a real state of conflict. So on one hand, yes, guys sees women as deserving of their place in the classroom, deserving of being their place on the playing field. , as deserving of being a weird as they are, but thats all in the public