Brooke Baldwin

I've been in touch with Saskia.

I'm like, girl, you got to come over here and talk to some American women.

I just think that the more people speak up and out about it, not just about drug induced marital rape, but just sexual assault in general, it just it's like courage is contagious.

I think it's a really old, crusty system of how men and women have existed.

And go with me here, because I'm gonna first relate it to race, and then I'm gonna relate it to gender.

I think having been a journalist as long as I was, having a front seat to the world from CNN, when I think back to when Obama was in the White House, and you think of all the racist, xenophobe, fill in the blank, I feel like they all kind of crawled under their rocks

and then only got more and more and more furious that this black man was the leader of the free world.

And then the second Donald Trump got elected, it was like everyone got a free pass.

It's like everyone crawled out from under their rocks and everyone feels free to let their freak flag fly, their racist visage, all the things.

And I feel like something happened with women where Me Too happened.

There felt like there was this liberation, this movement, this momentum.

Then I think the pendulum swung too far.

And a lot of the men who watched Me Too happen were like, fuck.

And now...

i feel this i don't know if you feel this and i'm sitting in this gorgeous soft feminine pink luscious you know studio of yours thank you for that by the way and i think women are feeling more and more in charge embodied permission to exist and men are like whoa whoa whoa

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

And in terms of these rapes, it's like, they're like, whoa, when you're unconscious, I'm taking my power back.

That's a whole part of this conversation.

But I just want to first say, thank you for saying all that.

And I'm right there with you, sister.