Rape Culture

“Mythcommunication: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer”

“in conversation, “no” is disfavored, and people try to say no in ways that soften the rejection, often avoiding the word at all. People issue rejections in softened language…

“If “Boys Will Be Boys” Why Don’t We Just Kill Boys?”

“Go with me here, women have to live defensively. Even more so if you’re not a White Woman. And a lot of men assure me that the reason anything bad ever happens to women is their fault for attire/presence/state of sobriety/not…

“From Pickup Artist to Pariah”

““All of my life I have looked for certainty and attempted to make sense of the world,” he said. That search for an explanatory framework led him to the manosphere, where his tendency toward judgment was amplified and given direction. “It’s like a rut in your brain. I’ve had…

“Risky Date”

“Please note: This comic contains discussion of sexual assault, rape, and rape culture

This guy, this fucking guy, still sticks in my brain. It’s been years since I’ve been online dating. It was an interaction of messages that culminated in this exchange over about 2 weeks.

“The Day Peruvian Women Rebelled”

“A Peruvian girl is a full-time Little Red Riding Hood. Quite early she learns she has to take this, and not that other, road; that she must watch her back, and feign that she did not hear what they shouted about her vagina…

A Peruvian woman…

“When I Quit Cutting My Hair, I Learned How Men Treat Women On American Roads”

“The usual scenario goes something like this: I do something to upset another driver, like squeezing in front of them on the freeway (in my car) or lane-splitting past them in traffic (on my…

“Joe Biden Said Guys Who Ignore Misogyny Are ‘Accomplices’ to Sexual Assault”

“Directly addressing the men in the audience, Biden said, “We’ve got to overcome this social discomfort of calling out the misogyny that happens when no women are present: the locker room talk, the…

“Why Brock Turner Believes He Isn’t a Rapist”

“We’re sociologists, and our talk about current events remains purely scientific, but as we discussed this case, our conversation turned into an exchange of stories of sexual aggression that seemed so painstakingly ordinary that we had never told…

“When Men Are Raped”

“Stemple, who works with the Health and Human Rights Project at UCLA, had often wondered whether incidents of sexual violence against men were under-reported. She had once worked on prison reform and knew that jail is a place where sexual violence against men is routine but not counted in…

“Standing Up To Sexual Harassment And Assault In L.A.’s Comedy Scene”

“Stelling and Pauroso are not alone. Stelling’s Instagram post had barely been up before the members of a private Facebook group for women in the L.A. comedy community identified Hartmann by name and began…