As soon as I turned an grownup, I would all however forgotten about Women Gone Wild, submitting it away as simply one other piece of ’00s misogyny that I and lots of different girls in some way (barely) survived. However, once I watched Women Gone Wild: The Untold Story, that undercurrent I felt all through the 2000’s and 2010’s got here flooding again one-hundred-fold. Listed below are 31 moments from the documentary sequence that show simply how little we valued girls and women throughout that point — and the way, in 2024, we nonetheless have an extended option to go:
Warning: This submit discusses rape, home violence, and sexual assault.
Joe Francis declined an on-camera interview to handle claims made within the documentary.