{"id":330,"date":"2019-10-28T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/questions\/himpathy-and-down-girl-chapter-6-reflection-questions\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T20:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:14:36","slug":"himpathy-and-down-girl-chapter-6-reflection-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/questions\/himpathy-and-down-girl-chapter-6-reflection-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Himpathy&#8221; and Down Girl (Chapter 6) &#8211; Reflection Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. When Janey confronts her friend Veronica about her initial reaction to her assault, Veronica says &#8220;You have to understand, it was very awkward for everybody&#8221;. She says this in a raised voice, clearly getting defensive. Considering what we are reading and have read in Down Girl, how can we interpret this statement and this behavior?<\/p>\n<p>2. After the assault, Janey&#8217;s friends give Matthew the benefit of the doubt although they describe him as &#8220;drunk&#8221;, &#8220;out of control&#8221;, &#8220;doing inappropriate things&#8221;, and &#8220;a little sleezy&#8221;. Janey says they let him off the hook because &#8220;he made them experience the world in different ways &#8212; he was the life of the party. Do we buy into this, or are there other factors at work here?<\/p>\n<p>3. On page 199, Manne asserts that &#8220;the idea of rapists as monsters exonerates by caricature&#8221;. Let&#8217;s discuss this claim. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. When Janey confronts her friend Veronica about her initial reaction to her assault, Veronica says &#8220;You have to understand, it was very awkward for everybody&#8221;. She says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-questions"],"splot_meta":{"author":"Emma McCauley","license":"","source":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}