Category: RED FLAGS

Humiliation Is an Abuse Tactic: When Someone Keeps Trying to Make You Feel Small
Some people try to control women by frightening us.Others discover [...]

When Someone Tries to Humiliate You and Take Your Name: Two Abuse Tactics Survivors Should Know (audio ep)
Abuse does not always begin with a bruise. Sometimes it begins with hu [...]

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 con [...]

10 Things to Know About the Crime of Stealthing featuring MadameNoire
The research literature usually calls it nonconsensual condom removal [...]

What Happens When the Woman We Call Strong Tells Us She Was Hurt?
Listening tells you so much about where we really are as a society. A [...]

Rape Myth Acceptance: Somehow We Understand Vulnerability Until the Victim Is a Woman
There are things we understand perfectly well until se [...]

Why Didn’t You Go to the Police? First Ask What Happens When Victims Do
There is a question people continue to ask victims of sexual vio [...]

If Every Man Gets to Ask Women Why She Said No, Where Does It End?
There is an age when "Why?" is one of the sweetest and most exhausting [...]

When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking
updated from March 23 2025There is a familiar pattern in [...]

Misogynist Gaslighting: The Reversal That Keeps Women Unsafe
Updated from June 8, 2025
No matter the group of men who disregard [...]