Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

I maybe shouldn't have marathoned this last night but (save one or two essays [it's a collection what can you do]) it was excellent and - of course heartbreaking - but also repetitive. We all need to hear that the sexual assault and harassment most women have experienced is “Bad enough” (then I read the Feb 11th New York Times magazine article on how teens use porn as sex ed and I thought maybe we could tell girls they should get pleasure out of sex for themselves? But lots of things I definitely don't know how to fix in the world) A solid diversity of stories across gender identity, sexuality, race, etc

local content note: one of the essays was written about that time an unnamed university [coughUBC cough] had a serial assaulter hanging around campus and what it's like to be afraid of walking home alone at night in general. I remember being so angry - women everywhere waiting for Safewalk to escort them home from the library late at night and men walking freely while I just needed to finish my final papers instead of worrying about being on campus after dark. The posters that went up with an illustration of a random caucasian dude in a hoody, it could have been any man but, like #notallmen. *grumble