Amanda Marcotte writes for Pandagon/Raw Story: “You might have thought that we’d made it until Election Day without another Republican busting out another offensive comment about rape, but of course such a thing is not possible in our era of Republicans…
Megan Finnerty writes on azcentral.com: “Psychologists have long said Halloween gives adults permission to safely live out parts of their fantasies in public, but experts observe that these roles, when seen in the aisles of a Halloween superstore or the…
Leah Debber writes for Miss Representation: “A lack of visibility and diversity implies that there is something wrong with differing from the created norm, or that it is somehow unappealing. This encourages women to further contemplate the way they look…
Lisa Huynh writes for MS. Magazine: “It is one thing to advertise arguably inappropriate dresses for underage girls, but it is another thing entirely to tell them to experiment sexually with older boys or men.”
Jessica Valenti writes fro The Nation: “The definition of who is a rape victim has been whittled down by racism, misogyny, classism and the pervasive wink-wink-nudge-nudge belief that all women really want to be forced anyway. The assumption is that wome…