What’s Current: Is Maggie’s Toronto using government funds to promote child exploitation?

Subway pitchman, Jared Fogel (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Subway pitchman, Jared Fogel (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Subway suspends Jared amid child porn probe.  In the late 1990’s Jared ran a successful porn-renting business out of his bedroom. Now decades later, authorities are finally finding that his vast porn collection includes images of children.

Hundreds of men in Vietnam gang-rape girls in Water Park in broad daylight.

Is Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project using government funds to promote child sex trafficking?

Caitlyn Jenner, “desperate” to have a baby “she can turn into a mini-me,” plans on using a surrogate.

Man wins trial, claiming that he is not criminally responsible for rapes he committed because he has “sexsomnia,” a condition that causes him to rape uncontrollably.

Debbie Cameron on the policing of women’s language — Women are told not to use uptalk, “sorry” “like” or “just.” Will talking more like men really help women succeed professionally? Unlikely.

Men’s greater success in the workplace is largely a product of their privileged status as men: just imitating their behaviour won’t give women their status. Yet here we are in the second decade of the 21st century, recycling the same old advice.

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and erstwhile academic in Philosophy. Follow her @Blasfemmey. Got tips? Email us.

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.