Women, even at their most difficult, do not cause the same kind of problems that arise as a result of men’s presence in women’s shelters. Women do not treat other women the way men treat women. Women do not do to other women what men do to women.
Tag: sexual harassment
Last month, a scheduled screening of Vaishnavi Sundar’s film, But What Was She Wearing? was abruptly cancelled. Vaishnavi was told, a week before the screening, that the event was cancelled because of…
It isn’t only straight men who engage in sexual harassment and assault — it’s time for gay men to be accountable as well.
Prominent sociologist and pro-feminist, Michael Kimmel, has been accused of unethical conduct. What should the response of academics and activists who identify as pro-feminist or feminist be?
Women in the aviation have been subjected to misogyny for decades — what needs to change to ensure more women can enter the industry?
Peter Jackson was applauded for admitting he played a role in blackballing female actors, but if men wish to be allies, they need to stop compartmentalizing and participating in sexism.
Radical feminism challenges us to be better than our patriarchal culture asks of us — to reject patriarchy’s glorification of control, conquest, and aggression.
A Finnish performing arts high school is embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal after administrators ignored the behaviour of male teachers for decades.
#MeToo may feel like a watershed moment, but we need to get organized if we truly want to effect change.
#MeToo has encouraged some men to post about their misogynist behaviour online, but they need to move beyond social media confessions.
How can we claim to be shocked by a culture we all live in, participate in, and are complicit in?
Alok Vaid-Menon demonstrates exactly why feminists should not center men’s voices in our conversations about sexual harassment.
Rob Ford is dead. The former Toronto mayor died of cancer this morning, at 46-years-old. According to news reports and social media, we are in mourning, as always, expected to politely and…
In what has shown itself to be a fairly controversial move, British Labour Party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has proposed women-only carriages on trains in the UK. How utterly regressive! some have…