Episode 5: A Closer Look at Dating Aziz Ansari

Consent Part 2: A Closer Look at Dating Aziz Ansari

Madeline and Sharon go back to their longstanding habit of commenting on old news, because it’s taken them months of thinking, consulting, processing, and muddling through to come to their comprehensive opinions on dating, dating violations, sexual assaults, and the ethical wrongs of that encounter. Starting with the recent story of the president kissing a staffer without consent, the two walk through the narrative of the date from hell that “Grace” had with Aziz Ansari. Below are some references we used, or some facts we looked up after the fact, when we couldn’t think of a fact while recording! 

https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/trump-forcibly-kissed-former-campaign-staffer-lawsuit-says.htmlYet Another Woman Accuses Trump of Kissing Her Without Consent

https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355

“I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/suffrage-movement-racism-black-women.html

How the Suffragette Movement Betrayed Black Women

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353507072914

‘Spontaneous’ Sexual Consent: An Analysis of Sexual Consent Literature”