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Audrie and Daisy: A Netflix Documentary


We held a screening for a few friends and writers at my home this week of the new Netflix documentary, "Audrie and Daisy", about two young women whose lives were affected and torn apart by the sexual assaults and the aftermath in the small towns where they lived and the towns reactions to them. It was very rough stuff indeed.

I first heard the story of Audrie Pott after reading an article in  [you guessed it] Rolling Stone about how she was sexually assaulted after becoming intoxicated at a party. Photos and video were taken while  she was passed out and drawn on with sharpies all over her body. The media taken by the teenage boys who did it then it passed around via social media over the weekend. When she found out what had happened she tried to do damage control but it was too late. Audrie killed herself in her mother's home after being bullied and harassed over the incident at her school and on social media, leaving her parents, Sheila and Larry Pott and her biological father, Michael Lazarin with questions they could not answer.

Daisy Coleman was the same girl....in different circumstances. She and her friend Paige were drinking at a friend's home when they were both sexually assaulted and Daisy was left in her front yard at near freezing cold where hypothermia and alcohol poisoning could have killed her. Constant harassment and relentless attacks on the internet drove her to try to attempt suicide. But Daisy did not die.

This documentary was extremely painful to watch and by the end I was practically in tears and throwing books, my phone, my remotes and anything else within reach [sadly a Coke was in the line of fire]. All of us were deeply affected and shocked to the core. For the life of me I can not understand why we aren't teaching our sons that if someone is too inebriated to say "no" that makes it rape! Why isn't that being made more clear? And for the love of God, why are young people taking photos and videos of that kind of thing?!? Now, I'm not hung up. Our bodies are beautiful. But come on. Rape videos? What in the hell are these young men NOT learning at home? I would include young women in that but I've never read the case of a young woman doing same.

Please watch this documentary and watch it with your teenager. There is no excuse for this to be happening. None whatsoever.  RIP Audrie

Links.

http://audrieanddaisy.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DUFZ4Fnd8

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/sexting-shame-and-suicide-20130917

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/life-after-sexual-assault-inside-doc-audrie-daisy-w441794

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/netflixs-audrie-daisy-tells-two-haunting-stories-of-sexual-assault_us_57e3e26ce4b0e80b1ba08a38

 

 



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