25 years ago today, a gunman entered the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, in Canada, killing 14 women and injuring another 14 people in the name of "fighting feminism," before taking his own life. The most unfortunate, the most heartbreaking, the most infuriating part of this all is that the same misogyny…
A 26-year-old woman is in critical but stable condition after HAVING HER THROAT SLASHED by a man with whom she declined to talk. Police are still looking for the suspect.
Over the past several days, several individuals (presumably men) have made multiple attempts to edit the Wikipedia entry for #YesAllWomen in order to make it less "misandrist."
It was late Monday night and, knowing full-well that I had to wake up early for work the next day, I was buried deep in the Twitter hashtag #YesAllWomen, reading story after story of the aggression women face in their daily lives. Soon, it was early Tuesday morning and I was still awake, still reading.
Over at When Women Refuse, one Tumblr user is chronicling news stories about just what happens to women who refuse the sexual advances and/or interests of men.
At 1:45 am Saturday morning, merely hours after Elliot Rodgers embarked on a misogyny-driven shooting spree, a man in Stockton, California, fired eight rounds at three women leaving his residence after they refused to have sex with him and his friends. Luckily in this scenario, no one was injured—at the same time,…
