I trusted the polls because I believed that men on the Left were with us in this struggle, but in the end, too many left us to vote for a racist, sexist, xenophobic, hyper-masculine demagogue. This was not a victory on the Right, but a failure of the Left.
Sexism
This new awakening did not happen overnight, it did not happen for everyone, and our country still has a long way to go to truly reform our rape culture. But it is fair to say that survivor activists have made electoral politics a hostile environment for sexual predators.
Clinton won the first debate last night, according to scientific polls, focus groups, and my Grandma Lois. Trump should have won…
Over the course of their lifetime, girls and women have a lot of unwanted sex. The term “unwanted sex” is…
Many of my progressive friends are panicking about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House. This post lays…
I have a distinct memory of being a kid and witnessing my mother face sexism at a car dealership in…
The CHIPS Test is an easy way to identify sexual objectification. If the answer is “yes” to any of the…
Crossposted at Ms. Blog. Bloomberg News took the campus sexual assault backlash to a new low last week with a piece describing how…
The new campus anti-rape movement is the latest effort in a longstanding struggle against sexual violence in the U.S. that African-American women initiated more than a century ago.