Can there be justice for those who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth?
What constitutes rape?
At first blush Anatomy of a Scandal presents as a simple case of he said/she said in an office affair gone wrong for a British politician. Woven into the proceedings is the story of young men of privilege sowing their wild oats at a prestigious university, the impact of the young men's thoughtlessness in the college days, and the imprint of these men 20 years later after having honed their privilege in their wealth and in their political power.
The most interesting character for me was the wife of the accused politician, Sophie Whitehouse. It was the development of Sophie that reconciled the norms of sex and drugs at university to the realization of the truth that took 20 years to learn. "The blurring of consent in Sophie's days of sixth-form parties when boys would try anything and sometimes it was easier just to acquiesce. She is not saying those those boys were in the right, but these days she could accuse them of rape, or at least sexual assault, when what they were guilty of was a selfish exuberance and what she was guilty of-for she was complicit in this, too-was a lack of communication."
Enjoy the court room drama, but just know that you will be taken down the path of enlightenment and will examine your own thoughts on class privilege and male privilege.
What constitutes rape?
At first blush Anatomy of a Scandal presents as a simple case of he said/she said in an office affair gone wrong for a British politician. Woven into the proceedings is the story of young men of privilege sowing their wild oats at a prestigious university, the impact of the young men's thoughtlessness in the college days, and the imprint of these men 20 years later after having honed their privilege in their wealth and in their political power.
The most interesting character for me was the wife of the accused politician, Sophie Whitehouse. It was the development of Sophie that reconciled the norms of sex and drugs at university to the realization of the truth that took 20 years to learn. "The blurring of consent in Sophie's days of sixth-form parties when boys would try anything and sometimes it was easier just to acquiesce. She is not saying those those boys were in the right, but these days she could accuse them of rape, or at least sexual assault, when what they were guilty of was a selfish exuberance and what she was guilty of-for she was complicit in this, too-was a lack of communication."
Enjoy the court room drama, but just know that you will be taken down the path of enlightenment and will examine your own thoughts on class privilege and male privilege.