What’s Current: Obama says we need to elect more women to office, as ‘men seem to be having problems’

  • Barack Obama says more women need to be elected to office, because “men seem to be having problems.”
  • Netflix fires actor Danny Masterson a day an exec told one of his alleged victims that the company didn’t believe allegations that he brutally raped four women.
  • Rep. John Conyers announces he is stepping down from Congress after a settlement for workplace sexual harassment and further allegations of sustained sexual harassment of female congressional staffers were revealed.
  • Around two-thirds of women serving in Quebec’s provincial legislature report having been sexually harassed while performing their official duties.
  • David Boies, a famous and powerful US lawyer, is using the sexual history of a young female novelist against her in a dispute with a former partner.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.