Researchers Insist That Afghan Policewomen Need Their Own Restrooms
There’s a huge barrier standing between Afghanistan’s female police officers and on-the-job security. Want to guess what it is? Here’s a hint: it has nothing to do with, say, needing more kevlar vests or working in a destabilized, war-ravaged country. What the Afghan women serving in the police force really need…
Some Crazy Lady Threw Her Pubes at Hugh Jackman, Caroline Lamb-Style
In today’s creakingly slow news cycle, Reuters and TMZ, like two jackals starving in the wilderness, jumped on the same lurid story: a woman named Katherine Thurston menaced Hugh Jackman at a gym in New York City, fled, and was promptly arrested. The Reuters version is fairly prosaic — Katherine waves an electric…
Singapore Anti-Groping PSA Features Terrible Puns, Victim-Blaming ‘Tips’
Singapore, which might be one of the worst places in the world if you're looking to break the law, has apparently rolled out an anti-public-groping campaign, which would be very helpful and nice if its street-side ads didn't features incredibly creepy pictures supplemented with a litany of instructions about what…
Ecstasy Could Help Survivors of Sexual Assault
The party drug MDMA, colloquially known as the party drug Ecstasy, can be used to cure patients of severe post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study of experimental testing of combining the drug with psychotherapy. The research, however, was not conducted on war veterans, a group most often associated with…
Senate Passes Amendment Barring Sex Offenders From the Military
It looks like there's at least one positive side effect of the summer's exposé of the sexual assault and harassment of 48 female trainees at Lackland Air Force Base—that attention's being drawn to the myriad problems and legal loopholes in the U.S. armed forces when it comes to the well-being of their female troops.…
Cleveland Bus Driver Suspended After Punching Female Passenger
A 96-second video of an altercation between a 22-year-old Cleveland municipal bus driver named Artis Hughes and a 25-year-old female passenger later identified as Shidea Lane has gone viral on Reddit and is now gaining attention nationally. The video features Lane and Hughes in a verbal argument, during which Hughes…
Lindsay Lohan Allegedly Assaulted Inside Her Manhattan Hotel Room [Update]
Strap in, ladies and gentlemen, because the latest entry in Lindsay Lohan's saga is about to get really upsetting. According to police sources, Lindsay Lohan was assaulted inside her Manhattan hotel room early Sunday morning after getting into an argument with a man she brought back to her room after meeting him at 1…
Band of Homeless Men Stop a Creep from Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl
Public transit can be a terrifying place sometimes, especially when something awful is happening in front of a bus, train, or trolley full of people too busy trying to avoid making eye contact to leap into action. It's a good thing, then, that five disabled homeless men didn't have any such confrontational qualms…
Gender, Power, and Chris Brown’s Battered Woman Tattoo
In 2009 R&B singer Chris Brown pled guilty to assaulting singer Rihanna. At the time of the incident, photographs of her bruised and swollen face were passed all over the internet. This week we learned that Brown has tattooed the face of a battered woman on a very public part of his body, his neck.
Stranger on a Train: 'I Would Fucking Kill You Bitch'
I debated whether or not to share this story. And then I debated whether or not to put it on Tumblr…but I decided it was important. Because in my own way, I can (unfortunately) point out exactly what is wrong with men when they don't realize how hard it is to be a woman. How we do not have equal opportunities and…

