#MeToo has encouraged some men to post about their misogynist behaviour online, but they need to move beyond social media confessions.
Sexual Assault
How can we claim to be shocked by a culture we all live in, participate in, and are complicit in?
Men don’t rape because they don’t think consent is “sexy” enough, they rape because they think they will get away with it.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yesterday, it was reported that Larry Takahashi, who has been dubbed the “Balaclava Rapist“ by the mainstream media, has been released on day parole in the Vancouver area. In 1984, the 63-year-old…
In 2012, Gina-Lisa Lohfink, a German model and celebrity, reported to the police that she’d been drugged and raped by two men. She was unable to recall the events of the night,…
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…