'The episode took my experience and spun it into a much bigger crime. As if my experience wasn’t bad enough for 40 minutes of television.'
. The boys who tape the sex, and who disseminate it, lose their jobs but then file wrongful termination lawsuits. The company tries to make amends by hiring an all-female artistic team; after I came forward, City Ballet—which was already without a permanent leader because its longtimeamid separate allegations of sexual harassment and verbal and physical abuse—hired a woman to be their associate artistic director, alongside a man. .
The episode took my experience and spun it into a much bigger crime. As if my experience wasn’t bad enough for 40 minutes of television., I was at home in upstate New York with my family. I watched it with my mom and my brother, and within five minutes, I was crying. During the first commercial break, my mom said, “We don't have to watch this, we can turn it off. You don't need to sit through this.
It made me think back to when I first found the photos and videos and texts on Chase’s computer. Obviously that was horrifying, but I was experiencing it on my own. Nobody else was judging me or wondering how I got into that situation. Sitting through the episode was like experiencing it all over again—this time with all the viewers ofAnd I just felt so, so stupid all over again. I know I wasn’t, I know that the people who did this to me were preying on young and naive women, but I think I’m always going to be a little bit mad at myself for ever speaking to them in the first place. And sitting there with my mom, re-experiencing it, that sucked. It really sucked.
I know the writers didn’t have to consult me before they made the episode, but here’s what I would have told them if they had: You need to acknowledge that revenge porn is real, and that it’s serious. I wish they’d included a website or a phone number at the end of the episode as a resource for people who have been victimized and want help . And I wish they’d given the ballerinas less cheesy choreography, or at least put them in pointe shoes.
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