Manipulation

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 …

Women did not create boundaries because every man is dangerous. Women created boundaries because they cannot know in advance which man is. Violent men don’t walk around with id tags …

 Harm does not always arrive announcing itself as hatred. Sometimes it comes smiling, agreeing with 80 percent of what you say, and spending the remaining 20 percent figuring out exactly …

We’ve been conditioned to treat “no” like a legal defense. We feel the need to back it up with a deposition: “I’m busy,” “I have a boyfriend,” “Maybe next time.” …

updated from March 24 2025   Interesting fact: Before his murders were discovered, serial killer Ted Bundy volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline in Seattle called the Seattle Crisis Clinic in 1971. The …

Fall is coming. Here are some film suggestions for when the weather keeps you indoors. Most of us learned something about controlling a story long before we knew there was …

updated from June 3 2025 Let’s name this for what it is: When politicians, media figures, or public influencers call women “hateful” for expressing concerns about our safety, they are …

A door can be legally open while everyone inside is still trying to make you leave. Something about the story of Levittown refuses to stay in 1957. William and Daisy …

  updated from April 8 2025 Some lies don’t look like lies.They wear the clothing of “tradition,” “culture,” “love,” or “femininity.”But if you look closer, you’ll see the bruises they …

Something strange is happening in the advice women are being given. We are living through an extraordinary period of sophisticated fraud. Government agencies routinely warn us about romance scammers, fake …