On Monday, Yiannopoulos told Politico he'd be dressing up as sexual assault survivor and advocate Emma Sulkowicz during an appearance at her alma mater next week, one stop on his months-long "Dangerous F----t" speaking tour. For her part, Sulkowicz was unfazed by the news.
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On Thursday, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk issued a statement explaining their video comparing human rape survivors and animals, but offered no apology for the stress it may have caused survivors. Newkirk specifically called out the credibility of survivors and what she believes is a double standard.
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Kelly, who is currently in negotiations to renew her multimillion-dollar contract with Fox News, is set to go public with her account of Ailes' predatory behavior. Kelly's book alleges the media exec began harassing her when she joined the network as a legal correspondent in 2005. He’d bring her into his office nightmarish two hour-long meetings complete with sexually charged comments.
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In a new op-ed, Mila Kunis tells the story of one producer who told her that, because she refused to pose semi-nude in a magazine promoting her film, she'd "never work in this town again." Kunis rails against sexism, the wage gap and bias in the piece — and explains the initiative she’s taking to fight it.
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Bono, lead singer of U2 — and a man — has just been named as part of Glamour's annual Women of the Year list. It's a decision that seems to defy all logic, and one that Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive came ready to defend.
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In response to her courageous statement against her assaulter Brock Turner, Emily Doe was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year, the magazine announced on Tuesday. And Doe is coming forward once again with a new open letter in honor of sexual assault survivors.
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In a 1998 BBC interview, Trump, discussing his book The Art of the Comeback, offers yet another way to evaluate women: There are "smart" women, he says — and then there are feminists. Trump wrote in his book that intelligent women play up their femininity on the outside while being "real killers on the inside." In the interview, he describes the “smart” ones in details.
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Just when we thought we’d seen all of the offensive Halloween costumes, two high school girls from Kansas raise the already awful bar. “Rape victims” is a new level of inappropriate costume. And it’s even more horrifying when you consider the rape statistics for girls between 16-19 years of age.
This 8-year-old boy from Brooklyn proves you don’t have to a woman to dress up as Hillary Clinton. "He does what he wants to do," his mom @DebbersGar said. “He's so like, I can wear whatever I want. ... There was no question that he couldn't be Hillary cuz he's a boy.” His Hillary costume is better than Katy Perry’s.
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For two years, Armando told no one that he was living with a partner who subjected him to physical, emotional and psychological abuse. In 2007, after a severe fight with his partner landed him in the hospital, he finally had enough.
There, he confessed to a police officer and a social worker that the man who abused him was not his cousin or his roommate — it was his partner, Miguel, who fled the state while Armando was in the hospital.
"Behind closed doors, this man would put his hands on me," Armando said. "He'd take a gun from a briefcase and use it on my head and hit me with it. It became very frightening."
Like other male victims of domestic abuse, Armando faced several roadblocks in the search for support and justice. Traditional ideas of intimate partner violence often focus on male abusers and female victims — the fact that Armando is gay man made access to help even harder.
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With a booming career in acting and music, Amandla Stenberg is now set to take the fashion world by storm. On Thursday, news broke that the 18-year-old star had signed a modeling contract with the Society Management. She'll be in good company too, Society just signed another one of her contemporaries.
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In mid-October, a woman in Madison, Wisconsin, reported a sexual assault to local law enforcement. In her police report, the 20-year-old victim alleged that Alec Cook, a student at the University of Wisconsin, attacked her in his apartment on Oct. 12, strangling her "until she eventually stopped fighting and he took it as permission," according to CBS. Over the course of two hours, Cook raped her again and again.
As it turns out, this woman wasn't Cook's only victim — far from it. After police arrested him, similar stories began trickling in. By any measure, it's sad news — partially because it's not particularly shocking. This snowball effect in sexual assault reporting is a pattern that's become increasingly visible over the past few years — and there are psychological reasons why.
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