27 ‘Harmless’ Comments That Actually Hurt Sexual Assault Survivors
1. “Are you sure you didn’t want it?” “’You must’ve wanted it.’ ‘You just want attention.’ ‘Get over it.’ It hurt because everyone was so damn dismissive over what happened. I mean honestly, no, I won’t get over it. No, I didn’t want attention. And no, I didn’t ‘want...Science Says Toxic Masculinity — More Than Alcohol — Leads To Sexual Assault
Booze-filled, chaperone-free parties. Teasing that crossed the line under the influence of alcohol. Relatively shy young men who became “aggressive and even belligerent” when drinking. Whatever the behavior of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, it’s become clear...
In Light Of Kavanaugh’s Reported Assaults: How Does the Brain Process Sexual Violence?
On Sunday, The New Yorker reported that a second woman has come forward with reports of sexual assault against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, Kavanaugh’s classmate at Yale, joins his high school acquaintance, Christine Blasey Ford, in...The Most Troubling Part of Stormy Daniels’ ‘60 Minutes’ Interview No One Is Talking About
A lot of men on Twitter have been reducing the Stormy Daniels story to sex. It’s a disturbing but utterly predictable trend—of course the “porn star Stormy Daniels,” as so many outlets and commentators insist on endlessly invoking her, isn’t allowed to stand for...Why Being Called a Tease is a Consent Issue
My younger sister called me on the way home from a date to tell me all about it (also, if I go missing after this is published, she found out I wrote about her and killed me). The date went well, and at the end, he asked if she wanted to come back to his place. She...