Out of the four reports that we watched as a class, the two that compared with each other in my point of view was the Young Turks video and the Take Part video. In the Young Turks video their main focus of the story was looking at how the media went about exposing the women at Duke and also how her student body and those around her attacked her for her pursuing in porn. In this video they were considering her young and dumb because she was only 18 years old at the time. With her being so young they emphasized that she had probably not thought this idea all the way through before making the decision that she did. This video showed the way that society judges young women who enjoy sex. We often turn the situation into a bad thing and even slut shame them for making the choices that they deicide to make.
In the second video Take Part which was a college news broadcast, I felt as if it was a more sarcastic approach towards the Duke student. They made a lot of side jokes and comments about the student and the things that were being said in the media about her. They also talked a lot about how she was doing this to make ends meet while in college since it was so expensive to go to Duke. The only difference I noticed is in the video the women speaking in this group felt as if the student was considered a grown women once she hit the age of 18 and was able to make whatever choices she wanted to make at the time. They also bring up the fact that we are judging this student because she is a Duke student and consider her to almost be better than that to work in the porn industry because of her background. Both of these videos compare when talking about the Duke student and the way that she was attacked.
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