Clearly, it dawned on "Emily Doe" at some point that there was real money to be made here. No longer need she feel any embarrassment about going to campus parties to get blackout drunk and hookup with college athletes. She had a right to do that, so, if it results in an occasional sexual assault, she's heroic! Even if she really didn't get to make the initial decisions about reporting the incident, because she was still unconscious. But she had a right to be. So -- heroic!
Remember F Troop, where Wilton Parmenter sneezed, and his calvary regiment thought he was ordering a charge, and the charge was successful, so he was awarded the Medal of Honor? At least Parmenter was conscious, and sober enough to stay on a horse. Even that was more heroic than Emily Doe. All she did was get totally polluted and pass out in circumstances that ultimately proved to be fortuitous. Brock Turner did the fingering, the foreign exchange students summoned law enforcement, and then the police and hospital staff did everything else. Emily Doe was basically just there, and for most of the relevant developments, she didn't even know it.
Heroic? I am not going to advise any young person (frankly, any person at all) to engage in this sort of conduct. In fact, I would more often be pointing to the "Emily Does" of the world as horrible examples that young people should stay away from.
I don't think I will be buying this book. More likely, I will wait for the movie, probably until it comes out on DVD, and then, not watch it. It is staggeringly dreadful that our society has come to the point of lauding the likes of this young woman as somebody worthy of praise and respect.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chanel-miller-the-full-60-minutes-report/ar-AAHGvki
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