Archive for 2012
How I Became a Rape Victim
Society doesn’t want to blame men for making the choice to rape women. It wants to blame women for enabling men to make that choice and usually it succeeds. Rapists very rarely get to accept responsibility for their choice to rape. Even rape victims blame themselves for their rapist’s choice to rape them. So I spent between two or three decades feeling unable to tell anyone in case they wouldn’t believe me. (Trigger warning.)
Read MoreTop 5 Questions About Vaginal Orgasm Answered
There’s a lot of misinformation still out there about vaginal sexual response and what is considered “normal,” driven home by patriarchal ideals about what vaginal orgasm “should” look like. This leads people with vaginas to second-guess their own bodies and forget that they too experience and deserve sexual satisfaction – for their own sake.
Read MoreEating Disorder Myths: The Naked Truth
Eating disorders are everywhere, and finally, people are beginning to realize it. Unfortunately, with the increased awareness has come a rash of myths – both about the disorders themselves and the people who suffer. Learn what they are so you can better support someone struggling with an eating disorder.
Read MoreEveryday Sexual Assault
We’ve received hundreds of reports of women being groped, grabbed, manhandled, slapped, tweaked, pinched, stroked and smacked in public, usually by complete strangers. Yet our society not only downplays and accepts this crime but deliberately normalizes it, telling women not to overreact, not to make a fuss out of nothing, or even to be glad of the attention.
Read MorePremenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) And What We Can Do About It
When I strangely began to feel useless, hopeless, and worthless, it took me a long time to see a doctor. I didn’t want to be that girl who loses control of her emotions because of something so silly as a period. That sexist stigma allowed me to live with PMDD for far longer than needed.
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