Its title seems designed to provoke attention-of any kind.
What’s happening on our university campuses may be indicative of the larger structures at play in our workplaces, public spaces, and personal lives.īlurred Lines is not an easy read. Now, in the toxic stew of rage, frustration, and confession that the current news cycle seems stuck on, the contents of Grigoriadis’s book-though still limited to the scope of campus sexual violence, its survivors, and those accused of assault-refracts a different kind of light.
Nor had Leon Wieseltier, or Knight Landesman, or Mark Halperin, or Kevin Spacey, or Michael Oreskes, or Louis CK, or any of the many other men exposed by the long-overdue wellspring of people-mostly women, all very brave-coming forward. When I first picked up Vanessa Grigoriadis’s book, Blurred Lines, in late September, Harvey Weinstein hadn’t yet been outed as a serial predator who used his power to silence aspiring young women.
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