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A man who groped two young women's butts in a Harlem subway station wound up getting shot in the lower back when an off-duty police officer tried to arrest him. Officer Jason Butler got involved when a woman started calling for police because her 13-year-old daughter had been groped. Then an 18-year-old said she'd been touched too and pointed to 22-year-old Jacob Sanford, who was sitting on a bench. Butler showed his badge and tried to arrest Sanford, but they got into a fight and Sanford managed to lift Butler off the platform. Butler fired one shot because he was afraid that Sanford was about to throw him into the path of an oncoming train. Sanford was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition. He has 19 arrests, including two charges of assaulting police officers, and has admitted to the two gropings. More »
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A Colorado woman was arrested on Thursday for an unusual crime: groping a TSA agent. Now a grassroots movement is rallying behind her. More »
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A British man is suing his employer after a female coworker repeatedly grabbed his ass. Her excuse: she was stressed. More »
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Among the constituencies pissed off about the TSA's new security measures: Sexual assault survivors, for whom both the body scans and the patdowns can be triggering. More »
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The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg proposes that men wear kilts on a day of protest against new gropey TSA policies. We suppose women could go pantyless, but somehow that seems less like a less effective fuck-you. Still, the dissent is building. More »
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Emily May's project, Hollaback — which targets those who sexually harass women on the street — is moving beyond a blog and into the 21st century, with an iPhone app. More »
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Upon being groped during a lights-out section of a ride at Disneyland, the quick-thinking Christina Esquivel grabbed her cellphone and took a picture of her attacker. But that's only one way of stopping those creeps. More »
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Women in Cairo say harassment by men is a growing problem — but Egypt's National Council for Women says everything's just peachy. More »
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Someone should have told comedian Johnny Vegas that fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life. Vegas is the stage persona of British stand-up comedian Michael Pennington, whose act has been described as dangerous, confrontational, [and] out of control. Last Friday night in London, Vegas appeared as a "special guest" on a tour called 10 Greatest Stand-Ups, and many reviewers who caught his act found the performance nothing short of sexual assault: Vegas brought a young woman who appeared to be about 19 onstage, and proceeded to squeeze her breast, finger her through her clothes, and kiss her, after he had repeatedly told her that he wanted to be "inside" her. More »
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A mobile program created by a Japanese video-game developer that allows women to ward off gropers has just become the seventh-most downloaded cellphone application. By pressing on an "anger icon" on the cellphone screen, women can flash the following messages at guys getting a little too close for comfort around: "Excuse me, did you just grope me?," "Groping is a crime," and "Shall we head to the police?". An alarm goes off at increasing levels of volume with each succeeding message as well. Though the program was created to help subway-riding women specifically — the developer says the program is a must-have "for women who want to scare away perverts with minimum hassle and without attracting attention" — we think it would be particularly helpful at frat parties. And yoga class! [ABC News] More »
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(West Hollywood, CA; April 19, 2007) More »
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