The Rigged System
Why don’t more women come forward? Because we set up the system to make sure they wouldn’t.
Why don’t more women come forward? Because we set up the system to make sure they wouldn’t.
Donald Trump stayed silent for five days. Then he attacked Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser.
Those who claim the press have been conspiring to sit on stories about Donald Trump haven’t been paying attention to the press.
Kira Hall tells it like it is.
In true Canadian style, Jonathan McLeod goes from talking about hockey to talking about sexual assault to talking about feminism.
Because everything is about hockey and hockey is about everything, apparently.
Jonathan McLeod looks at two recent court cases, noting the existence of rape culture and male privilege without ever using the terms.
I am a college professor, and a year from now the first of my three daughters will be preparing to head off to college. So naturally I have some thoughts on George Will’s comments about sexual assault, and I’m pretty critical of them. I’m not anti-George Will, but he would have done well to set…
We’ve all heard the term “rape culture” thrown around, and it’s a term that can lose its meaning or significance with repeated use, but as we experience sexual crimes like those committed in Steubenville or against Rehtaeh Parsons–and the delayed and insufficient responses to the crimes–it is inescapable that rape culture persists and, perhaps, thrives.
Canadians are horrible people, apparently. A recent Angus Reid poll commissioned by the Canadian Women’s Foundation discovered some rather disturbing views of a greater-than-negligible percentage of the population. Asked if a woman can provoke or encourage sexual assault when she is drunk, invites a man to her home, flirts with a man, wears a short…
James Taranto is angry. Lt. General Susan Helms has had her promotion held up by Missouri’s recently re-elected Senator Claire McCaskill. Taranto doesn’t like this; he views it as a salvo in what he’s describing as a “War On Men.” Let’s do the details first. In 2012, Helms granted clemency to Matthew Herrera, an Air…
I’m not sure I get what Rosie DiManno is trying to accomplish with this Toronto Sun Star article which appears to mock the notion that men can be sexually assaulted by women. I want to believe that it is written with a certain degree of irony – in hopes that it makes us think a little differently about sexual…
On Monday, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will compete for college football’s national championship. This is the kind of thing that gets sportswriters in a tizzy. If you’re of a certain Age, Notre Dame is what college football is all about, so the school’s sudden (and entirely unexpected) reappearance in the sport’s championship is a…