Toward Ruin or Recovery?
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.
Larissa Phillips
· 35 min read
Rape
A collection of 11 posts
The Ugly History of Rape Panics
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read
Grooming Gangs and Indifferent Police: What Have We Learned After Rotherham?
Sajid Javid, during his time as the U.K.’s Home Secretary, promised an investigation into the grooming phenomenon but nothing materialized. It is clear that we need investigations, but we also need accountability.
Ben Sixsmith
· 9 min read
Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic
Universities Australia has just commissioned a new survey on sexual assault intended to cook up more impressive rape statistics after the failure of the AHRC to produce the desired results.
Bettina Arndt
· 6 min read
The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing
In my pre-feminist days, sexual harassment and rape were so common, so pervasive, so accepted, that they were virtually invisible.
Phyllis Chesler
· 14 min read
PODCAST 55: Samantha Geimer, raped by Roman Polanski at 13, on her rejection of victimhood
Samantha Geimer, who was raped by Roman Polanski aged 13, talks to Jonathan Kay about why she has refused to be cast as a victim and how she’s dealt with the controversy her stance has generated. She is steeling herself for another bout of unwanted attention when Polanski’s
Quillette
· 1 min read
A Girl’s Place in the World
Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.
William Buckner
· 15 min read
Portrait of the Artist as a False Accuser
An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'—A Review
As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.
Matthew Scott
· 11 min read
Challenging the Campus Rape Narrative
The evidence is there for all to see. Our Australian universities are on a hiding to nothing by surrendering to the bullying tactics of a small group of feminist activists and agreeing to get involved in the criminal justice business.
Bettina Arndt
· 8 min read
Je Suis George Lawlor
University life is beginning to sound like a dystopian world; hollow-eyed students hunting in packs, scouring the landscape for dissenting individuals unplugged from the matrix.
Emma C Williams
· 6 min read