A Halifax judge has sparked outrage across Nova Scotia after ruling that a taxi driver—found by police in the backseat of his cab with an unconscious woman who was naked from the breasts down—could not be charged with rape because there’s no way of determining whether or not the victim, highly intoxicated at the time,…
French-Polish film director Roman Polanski—who pled guilty to the statutory rape of a drugged 13-year-old girl in 1977, then fled the United States after learning that the judge in the case, Laurence J. Rittenband, planned to reject his plea bargain (he is still wanted in the U.S. on charges of rape)—has stepped down…
In response to a sexual assault controversy that’s currently engulfing the New York comedy scene, women’s satire site Reductress has devoted its entire landing page to humor articles (primarily written by women) about rape.
On Wednesday, the panelists of The View discussed Lena Dunham’s decision to quit Twitter due to the abusive nature of social media users. While several panelists—including Raven Symone—agreed that people on Twitter are generally mean and should be more respectful, Candace Cameron Bure took it a step further. The…
For as long as there’s been an America, there have been high-profile instances of false rape reports—especially, interracial rapes. A 2015 report on lynching by the Equal Justice Initiative is blunt about what the tragic consequences have been for black men in this country:
Loose Women, a British talk show similar to The View, recently asked their audience a question: “Is it ever a woman’s fault if she is raped?” Now, the show and its parent channel ITV are being investigated by the U.K. broadcasting regulator agency.
Pepper Ellett, 25, alleges she was raped at Manhattan’s Happy Ending Lounge late last month. Yet she feels that the police aren’t taking her case seriously, nor is the bar, which immediately fired the employee in question—but didn’t turn him into the police. A rep for that same bar, which has been in the news for…
On Monday, Darren Sharper, alleged serial rapist and fallen NFL star, is expected to take a plea deal settling a myriad of rape and drugging charges involving women in California, Nevada, Louisiana and Arizona. The hearings are slated to take place in Los Angeles, the city where he's been in jail since last year.
The activist group No Red Tape crashed an information session Tuesday for prospective Columbia University students and their parents, part of an effort to draw attention to the flaws they see in how the school handles sexual assault.
Frequent Fox News guest Star Parker accused President Obama of committing "verbal rape" against Christians during the National Prayer Breakfast, wording was so inflammatory that none other than Geraldo Rivera, who was on the panel next to her, yelped "Yikes!" You know you're overdoing it hyperbole-wise when even…
Susan Patton, Princeton class of 1977 and noted Troll Mom, thinks a little rape in college is just a "learning experience," a view she's happy to air on any and every morning show in existence. In response, her classmates have issued a lengthy statement begging Princeton Mom to shut up and go away, calling her views…
In the days after Rolling Stone's University of Virginia rape story blew up in its face, both liberal and conservative finger-waggers agreed that Sabrina Rubin Erdely's journalistic transgression would almost certainly make things more difficult for the "real" victims. They were right.
Utah State Representative Brian Greene is totally against rape, of course. Who wouldn't be? Rape bad. But, you know, he wonders, totally earnestly, is it really rape if you have sex with someone while she's unconscious? What if she's your wife? What if you're pretty sure she'd be totally into it? Shouldn't there be an…
It is hard to expect much of Outnumbered. It is also hard to expect much of Fox News, the channel on which Outnumbered airs. And yet a head shake still occurs when one hears an opinion like the one Stacey Dash shared during Friday's episode, when she stated that college women who are raped are "bad girls" who "go out…
Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg have been found guilty of all charges relating to the gang rape of a fellow Vanderbilt student in the summer of 2013. A guilty verdict in a rape case. Would you look at that.
During a speech on U.S.-India relations in New Dehli on Tuesday, President Obama said the two countries will only succeed if they empower women and the crowd of 1,500 lost their minds cheering like Beyoncé had just left the stage. Gen-der Equa-lity! Gen-der Equa-lity!
Cindra Ladd, a former entertainment executive, says that Bill Cosby drugged and raped her in 1969 and wore a terrycloth bathrobe after the incident—a detail similar to what Janice Dickinson and many other of his alleged victims said about their assaults at the hands of the comedian.
Today, on the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v. Wade, let's take a moment to pause, reflect, and thank our lucky fucking stars that we have men like Lindsey Graham in Washington to bloviate about what's best for women's bodies.
Alt Headline: Hey, Good Morning America: What the Fuck Is This Shit?
Saturday's media headlines about Cosby's scheduled Denver performance read "Cosby takes stage despite protest over sex-assault claims" and "Protesters, fans greet Bill Cosby at Denver shows." But buried in these articles is the story we should actually be reading.
