When Men Expose Themselves to Girls: Why We Must Take This Form of Sexual Abuse Seriously Updated October 2026 | Originally published in 2023 A girl is walking home, waiting …
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How Violence Prevention Is Treated as Worse Than the Violence Itself
When a woman asks for safety, listen to the danger she is describing before you begin searching for something wrong with her character. We absolutely must reflect on how we …
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Female Teachers Are Sounding the Alarm: What Are Boys Being Taught About Women, and Who Is Protecting the Girls in Their Classrooms?
What happens when a generation of girls is expected to learn alongside boys who are being taught to regard them as lesser human beings? What female teachers are describing deserves …
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We Taught Gen Z About Consent. Did We Forget to Teach Them About Dignity?
I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way… You can agree to an experience without agreeing to be treated as disposable. The …
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When Women’s Rights Become Criminal Complaints: The Case of Marguerite Stern and Dora Moutot
A woman does not become hateful because she refuses to believe what someone else believes. Her mind is not public property, and her agreement is not a debt she owes. …
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Women Have Been Restricted for Safety for Generations. Why Does Restricting Men Sound So Radical?
There are renewed calls to ask a question American colleges have heard before: Why not get rid of fraternities? The question is back amid the uproar at Cornell over allegations …
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10 Lessons for Survivors from Melba Wilson’s Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest
Melba Wilson wrote about something that Black women had certainly been living but had rarely been given room to discuss publicly: incest and childhood sexual abuse inside Black families. Crossing …
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When Personal Expression Becomes Women’s Required Participation: What Exactly Are Institutions Asking Women to Do?
There is a difference between allowing another human being freedom and requiring somebody else to participate in that person’s understanding of themselves. We blur those two things far too easily. …
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When Someone Decides What You Will Be Called: Name Control as a Tactic of Abuse
Your name is one of the first things you learn belongs to you. That is exactly why controlling it can carry so much power. Sometimes an abusive person doesn’t merely …
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Men Already Have More Access to Women Than Ever. Why Is the Answer Still “Give Men More”?
There is something missing from a great deal of our modern conversation about men, women, loneliness, relationships, and belonging. We rarely acknowledge just how much access to women’s presence …