Book Review: <i>MeToo: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media</i> by Meenakshi Gigi Durham Meenakshi Gigi Durham <i>MeToo: The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media</i> . Polity Press, 2021. 191pp. $64.95 (Paperback). ISBN-13: 9781509535194.
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Abstract
The Impact of Rape Culture in the Media.For years, I have admired Durham's work and the ways she too has used her feminist ears to hear what is not being heard, particularly around the topic of rape culture.In her latest book, Durham takes readers through a beautifully written, accessible, and highly considerate investigation using the #MeToo movement as an entry point to discuss rape culture, sexual violence, and crucially, its relationship with the media.The media is a key focal point because, as she notes, they "are not only the physical sites of rape culture in the workplace, they are also an active discursive site of interrogation about rape and the cultures that produce it, sustain it, and conceal it" (p.4).In this sense, while #MeToo may have been a catalyst or even a "hook" for this book, it is in fact much more of an investigation of rape culture and the media.Completed three years after #MeToo went viral, the book is broken down into five chapters.The introduction brings readers up-to-date on the history of the 2017 #MeToo movement that went viral, but also the original MeToo movement founded over a decade earlier by African-American community organizer Tarana Burke.It also familiarizes readers with important theoretical concepts such as rape culture, rape myths, and sexual scripts.While this information may not be new to some readers, it never-the-less sets up important and useful context for the rest of the book.It is then broken down into three chapters focusing on different elements of the media, before finishing with concluding thoughts about what it will take to end rape culture and how to bring into play new models enabling this.The first chapter takes an institutional look at media organizations, exploring ways they are themselves sites of violence.Durham explores how high-powered individuals such as Matt Lauer, Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, and many more used their power within media organizations to commit acts of sexual violence and harassment at work, and the subsequent institutional processes and structures that covered them up.For example, Durham spends time discussing the common practice of using non-disclosure
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.007 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it