If Trump’s attitude towards women offends you, so should the sex trade
People of all political stripes are going nuts over audio revealing Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault. While Trump defensively claimed his words were nothing...
View ArticleI have never been sexually assaulted
I have never been sexually assaulted. When I was five-years-old I went to an in-home daycare, run by a woman who had a son and some daughters (a combination of my age at the time and the years that...
View ArticleDavid Hamilton’s sexual abuse has taught us a lesson we should already have...
David Hamilton was known for his pedophilic photography that some called “art,” but was little more than sexualized imagery of teenage girls. What he produced and encouraged should never have been...
View ArticleIndependent Women for Equality McGill call for a renewed commitment to end...
On December 6, 1989, a lone gunman walked into a class of engineering students at École Polytechnique, separated the men from the women, and killed 14 women. The event would eventually come to be...
View ArticleNo, we don’t need to center men in conversations about rape
A recent investigation by The Globe and Mail revealed how badly the Canadian justice system fails at prosecuting rape cases. Robin Doolittle reports that “one of every five sexual-assault...
View ArticleThe PWR BTTM debacle demonstrates why queer politics don’t protect women
Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins (Image: Twitter/@PWRBTTMBAND) New York queer punk music duo PWR BTTM, a vowel-less take on “power bottom” (Google that term, if you like), have become the center of...
View ArticleOn ‘street harassment’: What about the men?
Alok Vaid-Menon, a “non-binary transfeminine poet,” is asking important questions about sexual harassment: namely, “What about me”? In an interview with German queer magazine, Siegessäule, Vaid-Menon...
View ArticleTeaching students ‘consent is sexy’ won’t address the campus rape epidemic
Earlier this month, US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stated that she intends to rescind Obama-era policies addressing the way Title IX should be used to adjudicate college campus sexual assault...
View ArticleI am not shocked, you are not shocked, no one is shocked, stop pretending to...
Harvey Weinstein By now, most of us have heard about the ongoing allegations against Harvey Weinstein, one of the biggest movie producers in history and predator of the moment. But as stories of...
View ArticleYes, you too
The mass of #MeToos flooding my timeline from women I know, women I don’t know, and women I once knew lodged a lump in my throat that has yet to dissipate in 24 hours. Some have shared a story or two...
View Article11 ways men can respond productively to #MeToo
Earlier this week, Meghan Murphy offered a few suggestions as to what we might ask of men, in light of the viral hashtag, #MeToo, which aimed to remind the blissfully (or stubbornly) ignorant about...
View Article#MeToo has been a bold demonstration of the reality of male violence against...
Spurred by numerous allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Harvey Weinstein, thousands of women have come out publicly about their own experiences of male violence. Under the #MeToo...
View ArticleGay men aren’t special
Gay men have long been slandered as being defective. Not “real” men; maybe even (horrors) like women. But gay men are just regular men, like all the rest. They just happen to be attracted to other...
View ArticleGood guys and bad guys
I am not as abusive as Harvey Weinstein, nor as narcissistic as Bill O’Reilly. I’m more respectful to women than Donald Trump, and not as sleazy as Anthony Weiner. Judged by the standards set by these...
View Article#MeToo: Finnish former high school students raise their voices
Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts If you think hashtag campaigns are useless lip service, think again. In the wake of #MeToo, Finland is reeling from a high school harassment scandal....
View ArticleRadical feminism is the only solution to men’s ongoing ‘sexual misconduct’
“I’m not surprised,” women say, in response to the flood of revelations of sexual “misconduct” by men, especially men in positions of power. But none of us — women or men — should be surprised,...
View ArticleAdmitting complicity is not enough: men need to understand and challenge the...
Recently, film director, Peter Jackson, admitted to Stuff that he was an “unwitting accomplice” in Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to blackball Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, explaining: “I recall Miramax...
View ArticleThe Aziz Ansari accusations may not be about rape, but they are about rape...
While the #MeToo movement has resulted in man after man being outed as rapists, serial harassers, or general creeps, we would be mistaken to view this as a kind of culling. The truth revealed via...
View Article‘If someone is into you, you don’t have to chase them around the apartment’
A viral story published in Babe earlier this month about a date a young woman went on with actor and comedian Aziz Ansari has been met with controversy. Some think Ansari sexually assaulted the woman,...
View ArticleTrans-identified male verbally attacks Rose McGowan at Barnes & Noble talk
On Wednesday night at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, Rose McGowan was scheduled to read passages from her new memoir, “Brave,” and answer questions about her experiences...
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