Apparently the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a giant boy’s club with an atmosphere of sexism and harassment towards women. Hundreds of women who work for the RCMP force in British Columbia have lodged complaints of sexual harassment. But somethings is finally being done about it: a force of 100 Mounties will be trained to ...
There is strength in numbers for the female Mounties who have reported shocking abuse whilst working in the force. Their lawyers are due to submit a class-action lawsuit in the next few days, which would bring all the cases together and mean they will be heard together by the same judge in one set of ...
If you do a quick Google search of the word “rape,” you get dozens of headlines about the victims of sex crimes around the world. Most of us have no trouble saying that a great deal of these victims are women. In the Pickton inquiry alone there’s an ever-increasing list of women who are coming ...
Think back to your childhood playground. Do you remember little Tommy pinching little Susie’s butt? Or little Sally chasing little Archie around to get a kiss? Do you remember little Joe flipping up girls’ skirts? Is it all just innocent child-play? Not according to a new study, it isn’t. The study from the American Association ...
Someone is stealing women’s panties and sex toys in New Brunswick. In Saint-Paul and Sainte-Marie, women’s undergarments along with sex toys have been stolen from houses and a clothesline. Bearing in mind that the incidents, all seven of them, have been occurring since July of this year, I’m a bit surprised it has taken the ...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police sexual abuse scandal heats up even more as yet another former Mountie comes forward with her own story of abuse. Krista Carle, a former constable for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, admitted on Wednesday that she suffered from sexual assault and harassment constantly while on the force. She was ...
A Mountie has come forward after suffering years of sexual harassment while working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After 16 years of service (and abuse) Catherine Galliford suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia, and has bouts of chemical dependency from all that she has endured. But why did she wait so long to come ...
For those of us who have seen The Exorcist, it’s hard not to believe in satanic possession. But we are skeptical when it’s used as an excuse for inappropriate and especially illegal behaviour. Bobby Guyton, a 77-year-old man from Glendale, Arizona, sexually assaulted a woman and justified his actions by telling authorities “Satan must have ...
Women are becoming increasingly proactive in their fight against domestic violence and sexual harassment. Led by Rebecca Chiao, a group of Cairo women are using “new media and old-fashioned community action” to take a proactive stance on sex crimes in Egypt. Assisted by Canada’s International Development Research Centre, HarassMap “lets women report incidents that might ...
When Rape-aXe is not available nearby, and you live in a place where sexual assault is most likely seldom reported because women’s rights are often not recognized, there is one effective way to gather evidence of attempted rape: cutting your attacker’s penis off. That is what Monju Begum, a Bangladeshi woman, did. She says her ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
