Female Health and Safety

You are allowed to have preferences that produce absolutely no social benefit whatsoever. Your personal life does not have to double as public service. There is not a single soul …

A man wanting access to a woman does not create a moral question for the woman. She can simply decline. At least we are getting closer to telling the truth …

updated from July 31, 2025 The Space Was Never the Argument. The Entitlement Was. Survivor Affirmation Every woman deserves a space that stays hers. Not conditional. Not negotiable. Not something …

Stalking can be difficult to explain because any single incident may look small when separated from everything around it. A car passes your house. Someone sends flowers. Your ex appears …

We can defend someone’s right to wear the dress without pretending the dress is what makes a woman. There is a very simple place where many of us can meet. …

Technology has given abusive people new ways to watch, follow and frighten women. Some of them are hiding in places you may not think to look. Leena noticed it at …

For decades, the murder of Kitty Genovese was told as a chilling lesson about human indifference: a young woman screamed for help while 38 neighbors watched from their windows and …

updated from May 1 2025 UPDATE: I Learned More About Kitty Genovese I originally published this post in May 2025. At the time, I repeated a version of the Kitty …

There are places in the world where women are screaming into a silence that should shame the rest of us. Haiti is one of them. Haiti is living through an extraordinary …

Yep. Women in every corner of life are being shunned for failing to center males. Even as people shout about “inclusion,” “tolerance,” and “kindness,” we are living in a heightened …