Stephanie Young

Since the very start of this production, my team and I have been talking about the larger impacts of sharing this kind of narrative.

If just retelling it perpetuates this negative stereotype about women and how we can minimize that.

In the end, this is what I've come to.

I've reported on the facts.

I've utilized public records, many of them submitted by Laura Owens herself.

I've also relied on multiple accounts of people who experienced this firsthand.

I believe their stories deserve to be told.

I've heard this described as a cautionary tale.

I want to challenge that a bit.

I think the cautionary aspect really falls on each of us.

How we interpret it and retell it and why.

It's our responsibility to see it as what it is.

One single story.

When I first talked to Clayton, I didn't expect him to have thought about these repercussions and nuances.

But to my surprise, he had.

And he brought it up to me.

That's the delicate balance with this whole story, which is why I do appreciate you being a woman and why I do appreciate the vast majority of the supporters of me during this whole fiasco being women.

Because if it was just a movement of men, then it would be seen as misogynistic.

Like, oh, if you get attached to this story, there's an ickiness to it.

It's a men's right activist-led movement.