# MeToo made me rethink consent: Cheryl
Hong Kong: Bestselling author Cheryl Strayed, whose memoir
Wild was turned into an Oscarnominated film about her recovery from trauma, says listening more is key to healing wounds between men and women in the age of # MeToo. Now 50, Strayed says that while she is no stranger to trauma — she has told of suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her paternal grandfather when she was just three years old — the # MeToo movement has made her “rethink the meaning of consent”.
Speaking to AFP on the sidelines of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Strayed — long a campaigner for women’s rights — recounts how her high- school boyfriend once ripped off her top and exposed her breasts in front of a male classmate.