issue: Stopping Violence Against Women

The editors of The Washington Post published an editorial arguing that: “Sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl isn’t ‘a little mistake.'”

“Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right there, because that’s the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in ‘exile'” writes Kate Harding for Salon’s Broadsheet.

The Gannett News Service reports: “Women should be allowed to serve aboard submarines, and the Navy is “moving out aggressively” to make it happen, according to the service’s top civilian.”

Playwright and activist Eve Ensler writes on The Huffington Post: “What governor – once an actor, then a Terminator, married to a major women’s leader – has the chutzpah to wipe out 100 percent of the domestic violence budget of California, the biggest state in the country, with a single grope of his veto pen?”

Bob Herbert writes for an op-ed in the New York Times, “We’ve seen this tragic ritual so often that it has the feel of a formula. A guy is filled with a seething rage toward women and has easy access to guns. The result: mass slaughter.”