7 Reasons So Many Guys Don’t Understand Sexual Consent

The following sentence applies regardless of when you read this: A famous man has recently been accused of doing sexual things to a woman (or many women) without consent. At the time of this writing, it was a politician’s “groping” scandal but next...

This Filmmaker Wants Men In Hollywood To Stop Making Rape Scenes

There’s an unreasonable amount of sexual violence depicted on TV and in film, most of it handled by male writers and directors with all the sensitivity and nuance of a battering ram. Jill Soloway would very much like them to stop. The creator of Amazon’s Emmy-winning...

How Dress Codes Perpetuate Rape Culture In American Schools

Maggie Sunseri was a middle-school student in Versailles, Kentucky, when she first noticed a major difference in the way her school’s dress code treated males and females. Girls were disciplined disproportionately, she says, a trend she’s seen continue over the years....

Confirmation Of Betsy DeVos Could Lead To More Baylors

    On Friday, a woman identified only as “Elizabeth Doe” filed a lawsuit against the university in federal court, in which she alleges she was gang-raped by two Baylor Football players in spring 2013. In her complaint, Doe alleges that more than 30 Baylor...