It's a story with which we've all grown grimly familiar. Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Girl doesn't like boy back. Boy brutally murders girl in retaliation. Boy was owed girl. How dare girl turn boy down?
Over the last few days, the stomach-churning story of Jada — a 16-year-old girl whose rape was recorded and then shared and mocked on social media — has shown up everywhere. Now, it Jada's mother and a family spokesperson are claiming that Jada's far from the only girl victimized by the people who allegedly drugged…
The recorded rape of a Houston area teen has gone viral on social media, sparking its own mocking hashtag on Twitter and sending humanity spiraling ever more rapidly toward its inevitable and rapidly approaching self-inflicted demise.
The last couple of years have produced seemingly endless stories about the sexual assault crisis on American college campuses. But the threat of sexual assault doesn't end when a woman turns her tassel and picks up her diploma from the framers.
Two players for the top junior hockey league in the US have been charged with making and distributing child pornography after one of them secretly filmed the other having sex with a 15-year-old girl and then sent the video to a bunch of friends via social media, thereby becoming the literal incarnation of the phrase…
This week, the so-called "Hillary tapes" — recordings of Hillary Clinton discussing defending a child rapist early in her career — were again discussed publicly when a conservative outlet claimed to "unearth" them. Other right-wing media pounced, claiming that the tapes were newly discovered (they're not) and that…
Three James Madison University Sigma Chi fraternity members who filmed themselves sexually assaulting a woman on spring break and then distributed the film to others via social media received quite the punishment from their college: a permanent ban from campus. After they graduate. What the fuck, James Madison…
Their first interaction was him complimenting her watch. Then he began snapchatting her, texting her. It wasn't until he began following her on Instagram that she realized that he was a senior on her school's NCAA division 1 basketball team. And it wasn't until he raped her on the night before Easter that she realized…
A Columbus, Ohio 911 dispatcher is getting a flaccid slap on the wrist for telling a rape victim who dialed the emergency line immediately after being violently assaulted last weekend to "quit crying."
Yesterday, we reported that New York magazine is planning a cover story on noted pervy fashion photographer Terry Richardson and the hailstorm of rumors that he routinely sexually exploits and assaults models with the help of his creepy-as-fuck assistant Leslie Lessin. Now, another woman has come forward claiming that…
Like teenage Vine stars, singing competition shows, and the man who I sometimes see with his dong casually out on the subway, I usually ignore Washington Post columnist and living Republican stereotype George Will. I figure everything he says will just irritate me, and life is irritating enough with morality lectures…
Yesterday, Miss Pennsylvania told Today that she was conceived when her then-19-year-old-mother was raped at knifepoint. And she's using her prominence to educate other young women about sexual assault and overcoming adversity in the runup to competing in this weekend's Miss USA pageant.
Star athletes from a powerhouse high school athletic program. A sexual assault that occurred in the middle of a party full of witnesses who knew exactly what was going on but did nothing. Underage drinking. Online rumors. While the sexual assault of an 18-year-old Georgia high school senior by three of her classmates…
A 25-year-old California woman has been reunited with her mother after a decade of being held captive by the mother's former boyfriend. Her mother had thought the two had run away together.
Last night, NBC aired Savannah Guthrie's interview with Michelle Knight, one of three women who survived a years-long ordeal at the hands of captor/monster Ariel Castro. And it's just as difficult to listen to as one might imagine. http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/dateline...
On April 7th, an American University undergrad named Alex Louden was assaulted while walking near campus. His assailants allegedly first ran him down with a car, and then beat him while yelling anti-gay slurs until Loudon began to fall unconscious. He was hospitalized with a severe concussion and a spinal strain. Two…
Police in Tennessee have proposed a law that could make all details of rape cases — even the fact that a rape was committed in the first place — secret until the trial of the accused. Great news for police stations who can avoid being egged in the face by critical press; bad news for women who, you know, might want to…
Every two minutes, another person in America is raped or sexually assaulted. And about once every five seconds, some braying idiot who has no idea what they're talking about issues another unnecessary edict on how women should modify their behavior to make themselves less rapeable.
The thing about Dylan Farrow's open letter accusing her father, Woody Allen, of sexual abuse is: There was not much really new about it. It was new that Dylan Farrow herself was signing her name to the accusations, but Vanity Fair had covered the case, in grim detail, more than two decades ago.
Thirteen people have been arrested for their involvement in the case of the gang rape of a woman in West Bengal, India. According to police, the participants in the attack did so because they were ordered to... by the village council. Is it too late to formally resign from humanity?
