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'Audrie & Daisy' Explores Social Media Shaming After Sexual Assaults

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"Audrie And Daisy" is a new documentary film about sexual assault in the time of social media, a time where after someone is assaulted the public shaming that can happen can almost seem worse than the original attack.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "AUDRIE AND DAISY")

DAISY COLEMAN: You already have this wounds just ripped clean open, and you're vulnerable, and you're going through a really hard time. And to have all these people attacking you on top of it, it almost makes the bullying² seem more extreme.

MCEVERS: That's Daisy Coleman who survived an infamous³ assault in Maryville, Miss., when she was 14. Her family eventually left town. The filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Schenk are married and have two teenage children of their own. They say they worry parents just don't know what to do about social media.

The film starts with the story of Audrie Pott of Saratoga, Calif. She was at a party one night, drank and passed out. Boys drew all over her body and violated her. Bonni Cohen takes the story from there.

BONNI COHEN: She woke up the next day and did not know what had happened to her and spent the next few days in her room on her computer on Facebook messenger trying to reach out to friends and other students in her school who might have been at this party to try and kind of investigate her own crime, figure out what had happened to her. She did not speak with her parents about it. In fact her parents had no knowledge of what had happened the night before, you know?

And over the course of that next week at school, she saw people looking at their phones. She felt incredibly self-conscious about what had happened, and she started to get very depressed⁴ and turned inward. Eight days after the party, Audrie took her own life.

MCEVERS: And then, you know, you tell this story in large part of course from the perspective of Audrie's family, her parents, but also from the boys. In order to tell their story, you obscured their identity by animating⁵ the interviews that you recorded of them and of the videotaped depositions⁷ that were done with them. And I'm interested to hear how you made the decision to do that.

COHEN: We really were kind of fighting hard artistically⁸ and aesthetically⁹ against how some of these anonymity¹⁰ ideas sort of come across in film, and we didn't want like a big, black box over them, and we didn't want to cast them in a shadow which criminalizes their look more than we wanted to do. And we really wanted to keep them as human as possible and let them be in the film anonymous¹¹ but with human quality.

MCEVERS: I want to move on to the next story in the film. That's the story of Daisy Coleman. She lived in Maryville, Miss. One night she and a friend Paige were drinking. Some of her older brother's friends came to pick them up. They drank more. They say they passed out and were taken into two different rooms and sexually assaulted.

Later that night, maybe in the morning, the boys took the girls back home. And her mother found her the next morning. Can you just describe that a little bit?

COHEN: What ended up happening was Paige went in, and she went to sleep. And Daisy was left in the yard in freezing weather. And at about 4 or 5 in the morning, Melinda was woken up by one of her other children, Tristan (ph), one of Daisy's brothers who heard something outside.

And they went outside, and they found Daisy in the yard just frozen, and they took her in. And it was in that process of getting her into the bathtub that her mother discovered that possibly something else had happened that night.

MCEVERS: The police fairly quickly took the boys into questioning. One admitted to assaulting Paige, but another one said he - all he said was that he had sex with Daisy. And his friend then later also admitted to filming it. And you show these interrogation videos in the film. Did you try to talk to the boys?

JON SHENK: Yeah, of course we reached out to the boys. They were 17 years old in Missouri, so legally they were considered adults in Missouri as far as the crime went, which allowed us to get access to the deposition⁶ footage, which allowed their names actually to be used not only in our film but in other reporting that occurred about the case.

MCEVERS: Right.

SHENK: And of course we reached out to them and make it known that we were trying to do a different kind of story, that we were talking to people from all kinds of different perspectives, but we never heard from the families of the perpetrators in Daisy's case.

MCEVERS: The thing that is so interesting about these cases and perhaps kind of disturbing is that it does come down to he-said, she-said. And it's, like, it's portrayed¹² as just this, like, fair fight, you know? It just all depends on who you believe. You're either with the girls, or you're with the boys.

And in this case, I mean the people who side with the boys, you know, insult the girls, go on social media and take great pains to try to denigrate¹³ the character of Daisy and her family.

SHENK: This really gets to the heart of, you know, the major theme of the film.

MCEVERS: Yeah.

SHENK: And what that is is kind of a public square of shame, you know, with social media, that everywhere that where chatting can occur, it seems like there's kind of this lowest-common-denominator type of fight that starts to occur where girls get called names and everybody takes side, including police themselves...

MCEVERS: Sure.

SHENK: ...Teachers in the schools, you know, major officials in the towns where this occurs.

COHEN: I mean the girls have all said to us in various different ways that yes, of course the sexual assault was horrible and traumatic, and it's going to take them a long time to heal from it. But the worst part of what happened to them was the social media shaming and bullying that went on online afterwards. The aftermath seemed to completely outdo the sexual assault itself and the psychology¹⁴ of the girls. And I mean that's - we just have to look at that. That is....

MCEVERS: Right.

COHEN: That is quite a statement on where we are with this technology.

SHENK: But there is a silver lining¹⁵ to social media, which is that in the film and in real life, survivors¹⁶ are finding each other through social media.

COHEN: That's true - online. I mean it's this hooking up with other survivors that is so powerful, we found. You know, they meet online, and then they, through an organization - small organization in Washington, D.C., they get together and just make the decision to speak out and tell their stories publicly.

MCEVERS: At one point Daisy says this amazing thing. She says - you know, she's standing¹⁷ up giving a speech. She says something like, the words of our enemies aren't as awful as the silence of our friends.

COHEN: Yeah.

MCEVERS: You know, I wonder - it's this nice arc in the film that she's doing something. She's found people who are like her. She's helping¹⁸ other people. And it feels like a good way to end the story, but of course I have to wonder that she's got to have good days and bad days, no?

COHEN: Oh, yeah, no, definitely. She is still healing. The beautiful thing is she went off to college on a wrestling scholarship, and she's found this way to express herself artistically through tattoo¹⁹ art. She has a mentor²⁰ who's really been working hard with her over the last year, and - but yeah, she still can go very dark. And luckily now because she's had a lot of therapy and time in rehabilitation²¹, she knows what to do when that happens. So that's a relief.

MCEVERS: Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk - they are co-directors of the documentary "Audrie And Daisy." It is out now on Netflix. Thank you both so much.

COHEN: Thank you.

SHENK: Thank you very much.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 bullying   

v.恐吓，威逼( bully的现在分词 )；豪；跋扈

参考例句：

• Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
• All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 infamous   

adj.声名狼藉的，臭名昭著的，邪恶的

参考例句：

• He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
• I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。

4 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

5 animating   

v.使有生气( animate的现在分词 )；驱动；使栩栩如生地动作；赋予…以生命

参考例句：

• Nature has her animating spirit as well as man who is nature's child. 大自然就象它的孩子――人类一样，有活生生的灵魂。 来自辞典例句
• They were doubtlessly the animating principle of many hours that superficially seemed vacant. 在表面看来无所事事的许多时刻中，它们无疑是活跃的因素。 来自辞典例句

6 deposition   

n.免职，罢官；作证；沉淀；沉淀物

参考例句：

• It was this issue which led to the deposition of the king.正是这件事导致了国王被废黜。
• This leads to calcium deposition in the blood-vessels.这导致钙在血管中沉积。

7 depositions   

沉积（物）( deposition的名词复数 )； （在法庭上的）宣誓作证； 处置； 罢免

参考例句：

• The safety problems are more severe for low-pressure depositions because the processes often use concentrated gases. 对于低压淀积来说安全性问题更为突出，因为这种工艺通常使用高浓度的气体。
• The chief method is to take depositions of parties and witnesses. 主要的方法是录取当事人和证人的宣誓证言。 来自口语例句

8 artistically   

adv.艺术性地

参考例句：

• The book is beautifully printed and artistically bound. 这本书印刷精美，装帧高雅。
• The room is artistically decorated. 房间布置得很美观。

9 aesthetically   

adv.美地，艺术地

参考例句：

• Segmental construction contributes toward aesthetically pleasing structures in many different sites. 对于许多不同的现场条件，分段施工都能提供美观，颇有魄力的桥型结构。
• All isolation techniques may be aesthetically unacceptable or even dirty. 所有的隔离方法都有可能在美观方面使人难以接受，或甚至是肮脏的。

10 anonymity   

n.the condition of being anonymous

参考例句：

• Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. 为了姓名保密，书中的人用的都是化名。
• Our company promises to preserve the anonymity of all its clients. 我们公司承诺不公开客户的姓名。

11 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

12 portrayed   

v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
• The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

13 denigrate   

v.诬蔑，诽谤

参考例句：

• It was unkind to denigrate her achievement.贬低她的成就是刻薄的。
• To assert this is to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.坚持这一点就是贬低警方的办事能力。

14 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

15 lining   

n.衬里，衬料

参考例句：

• The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
• Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。

16 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

17 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

18 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

19 tattoo   

n.纹身，(皮肤上的)刺花纹；vt.刺花纹于

参考例句：

• I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
• He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。

20 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

21 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。