We Celebrated Women’s Gains. We Also Need to Talk About What Is Being Eroded. There is a story we often tell about women’s progress. Women organized, laws changed, rape became …
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College Women Need Layered Support: Never Make One Institution Your Entire Safety Plan
Having worked directly with colleges and universities as statewide coalitions serving domestic and sexual violence victims I can say this…… If you are a college student dealing with stalking, dating …
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Drug-Facilitated Rape: What Women Need to Know About Ketamine, Alcohol and Emerging Drugs
For years, women were warned about the “date-rape drug.” Watch your drink. Don’t leave your glass unattended. Be careful if a stranger offers you something. None of that advice is …
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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 words in the English language. Why is the sky blue? Why do dogs bark? Why do …
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Featuring Bunmi: Who Benefits When Women Are Encouraged to Leave Their Sexual Boundaries Open to Revision?
Who benefits when women are encouraged to understand their sexual boundaries as especially open to revision? Women have spent a great deal of history being told that their own sexual …
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10 Reasons Women Aren’t Bigots for Saying No to Dating or Sex
Human dignity should be universal. Sexual access should never be. We reached the part of this discourse where Rosa Parks was invoked to infer that women are like white supremacists …
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When Giving Up Women’s Rights Is Called Progress: 15 Questions Worth Asking
updated from March 23 2025 There is a familiar pattern in history. Women organize. Women speak. Women document harm. Women build shelters, create opportunities, change laws, and fight for …
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The Subtle Signs a Man Likes Women’s Labor More Than Women Themselves
He only likes women in roles that benefit him.Mother. Lover. Helper. Muse. Nurse. Secretary. Emotional sponge. Cheerleader. Protector. Once a woman becomes a full person with limits, needs, opinions, and …
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NO ONE Can Assert a Right to Be in Your Dating Pool
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 …
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He Wants It. But Why Does She Owe It?
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 …