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 allegations in…
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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…
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 celebrated,…
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…
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 more than “locker room…
Can you even imagine if Trump had said that he likes to just walk up to people of a particular, racially-oppressed ethnicity and punch them, because when you’re a white guy, they…
The much-deserved backlash against Trump’s remarks from the recently published 2005 recordings is a particularly interesting one, as it has received wide condemnation from within his own party. Republicans have essentially made…
Yesterday, Amy Schumer was pushed to address comments by Kurt Metzger, a past writer for Inside Amy Schumer. Metzger posted a number of sarcastic comments, apparently pissed off that a fellow comedian…
After being sexually harassed endlessly for weeks, Mel Watts, who runs the blog, The Modern Mumma, succumbed to her husband’s pressure and engaged in what she calls “a quickie.” That is to…
Rape culture is porn culture in 2016 — the two are indistinguishable. Since Hustler famously turned Cheryl Araujo’s 1983 gang rape, on a pool table in Massachusetts as other men watched, into…
In a letter released this morning, B.C. Premier Christy Clark explains that she supported a private member’s bill on sexual assault because she went through things “no person should experience” as a young girl. “As…
In January 2015, Brock Turner, a swimmer at Stanford University was seen sexually assaulting a woman who was lying on the ground, unconscious. He tried to run away after being seen by…
German police are investigating 26 reports of sexual assault that occurred at the Schlossgrabenfest music festival over the weekend in Darmstadt, Germany (near Frankfurt). The incident is being described as a smaller scale…
On Tuesday, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that Bill Cosby’s trial on charges of sexual assault will go forward despite his lawyers’ attempts to have the charges dismissed. Cosby’s defense attorney, Brian McMonagle blamed…
Marie Henein, the now-famous lawyer who defended sexual predator, Jian Ghomeshi, in his recent sexual assault trial, would like us to believe she chose the most ethical route towards winning the case.…