I am so excited you up and I spit you out and I'll play with your babies to the Scream and Show, oh yeah. I am so excited to welcome back to the show, Dr. Jennifer Doyle, a professor at UC Riverside, author of Campus Sex, Campus Security, infrequent blogger at the Sports Spectacle,

infrequent but powerful Twitter presence at From a Left Wing, and a conspirator and

a collaborator of mine, and a lot of us, and really an important critical voice in any discussion about sexual

assault in sport and beyond. We're going to talk about that. So welcome again to the show, Jen.

Thank you for having me on. I want to ask, so I could repeat this sentence and probably have, so I couldn't push the

forward button or the reverse button in history. And I'd be saying the same thing, which is,

recently there have been a scourge, a spate of allegations, and if we want to even use that word,

about sexual assault, sexual harassment, a spectrum of gendered violence within sport.

And I want to ask you then, how do we continue to have this conversation in a way that's not just

repetitive and frustrating?

How do we not find ourselves broken recording all the time?

Yeah.

There's a couple challenges to that.

You know, one is that as long as we have this corrupt patriarchal

architecture that's holding our love for the game, you know, that attachment to the game

is going to be violated by it over and over and over again. And then within that culture,

there's this strange thing that happens where there's like a discourse that on the one hand, you know, it's obviously like outrage by sexual abuse and harassment, titillated by sex scandals.

We can look to politics, right, to see the disorienting way in which we have a super abundance of sex scandals that never seem to matter or change anything, right?

And I'd say it's even kind of accelerated and condensed around our political culture, as

evidenced by our last president. So, you know, like sports isn't like a space apart from

our political culture or sociopolitical moment on that front.

And so sex and power, the story of the relationship between sex and power kind of, it's like baked in to, again, I'm going to use that word architecture to talk about like the infrastructure of the institutions that hold us

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