Jonathan Cardi and Martha Chamallas, ‘A Negligence Claim for Rape’, Texas Law Review (forthcoming 2023), available at SSRN. At the height of the #MeToo era, not a month seemed to pass without tell of bad behavior by a titan of American government, media, or entertainment. The resulting public thirst for contrition gave rise to a very specific oeuvre of male apology. ‘I misread things in the moment’, stated one entertainer after learning that a sexual partner had sobbed in her Uber home after their night together. I’ve had ‘encounters’ where I was sort of ‘navigating and not knowing’, observed another man who learned that his exploration of a female colleague’s breast while she was hosting a television segment had been unwelcome … (more)
[Cristina Tilley, JOTWELL, 27 October 2022]
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