Hey everyone, a few weeks ago we asked you our listeners to tell us about episodes of ThruLine

that have taught you something about another part of the world.

Today we're sharing one of those episodes from our archives and it was suggested by…

Hi, I'm Dana Sarira and I'm calling from Aman Jordan. I listened to your absurd about

the violence against women act and it blew me away. I had no idea what went into creating and

passing this crucial piece of legislation. Thanks ThruLine, keep up the good work.

Now, here's everybody, no somebody. Just a warning before we get started.

This episode has some references to sexual violence.

Producer Lane Kaplan Levinson has a story.

I think I'm one of the only people I know who went to law school to rebel against their parents.

I grew up in a household where my sisters are quite a bit older than I am and

their generation just weren't groomed to be having careers.

In the day, it was thought that if you had a career, you would be odd,

an odd ball that you would not have the chance to have a family that those two things were

opposed to each other. But being a little bit rebellious, I decided to go to law school at Berkeley.

It caused a bit of controversy in the home and so I decided, well, I'll just pay for it myself.

So I worked as a waitress and got some loans and went to law school.

I'm a law professor at Georgetown Law Center.

I'm going to Berkeley in the early 80s. I'd park my little Honda up on the hillside where

a lot of the fratts were and I would take out all my heavy law books and people would

cheer outside the window. What's a cute girl like you with all those law books?

I think a lot of us just felt like we were happy to be there, to have the access.

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