The Problems with Sexual Assault/Rape Cases

The problem is that there’s a huge gray area on what consent is.

As more sexual assault cases are brought to light in the media, along with the issues of lack of regulation helping survivors and victim-blaming, I’d just like to…

Some Advice for the Advice Queen

One time I applied to become a staff advice writer at a teen magazine, and, as part of the application process, I supplied some sample answers to questions and scenarios that regarded typical teen problems.

Fix The Law

In response to several level one offenders falling off the sex offender registry this year, Assemblyman Dean Murray has introduced Assembly Bill 8503. We held a press conference alongside Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center is support of that legislation.

I’m on your side, and I’ve always argued that people should stop talking shit about Britney Spears (when she was a teen, and I had a teen daughter). I believe young girls, and women SHOULD be able to wear whatever clothing they want, or to go naked in public, and if I, as a grown man, find her beautiful, I think that’s normal — Britney was lovely…

I completely agree with everything you said about rape culture, the fallacy of men being unable to control themselves, and removal of power from women over their own bodies. As a father though I REALLY relate to your uncle in his attempts to protect you from the fucked up society we live in and I wanted to disagree with you until I read what you…

Top 10 places I am scared I will get sexually assaulted …

… that aren’t a bathroom!

I am closing in on going to the bathroom in public and private places for roughly 35 years. Admittedly, I am female. (I know, right?) I was lucky enough to be born into the gender…

Thank you for this critical message, Michele! I encourage anyone who suspects something to consider that the benefit of speaking up greatly outweighs the cost in doing so. I would gladly look foolish for the sake of a child’s safety. RAINN encourages bystander intervention, which can be easily remember with the C.A.R.E. acronym: create a distraction…

Amen! And thanks for writing both pieces. This was clear in your 1st piece. Maybe people don’t want to comprehend what they do not want to hear. Defensiveness, ignorance, fear…nothing is more important than the lives and souls of human beings. Be adults. Do the harder thing.