Harvard Law student blames 'deeply embedded sexism' for fainting viral video concerns

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The video amassed over three million views after the Harvard Law student carried on her argument after fainting, but people were too eager to paint her as a 'damsel in distress' she told Newsweek.

The Harvard student believes there are conversations to be had about mental health at law schools but that her fainting should not have been the thing to spark it.

"It was really a moment of women at the top of their game, at the culmination of fighting really hard to get there in the competition. I think instead, what people focus on is this idea that I couldn't handle it or I cracked under the pressure, and that I shouldn't have felt like I had to keep going. That to me is so viscerally offensive to me, because the reason I stood up had nothing to do with proving anything to anyone.

Gilbert-Lurie asked herself the question of whether the reaction would have been the same if her male team partner had been the center of the fainting viral video. Her conclusion? No. The apparent painting of Gilbert-Lurie as a victim of pressure didn't just personally offend, but took away from the message she felt should have been at the center of the day.

 

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