Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should. — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“male peer reviewers regularly drag down aggregate review scores for TV shows aimed at women,” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“Big Thinkers like IBM’s Watson are programmed and named to sound like men.” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“In 2016, Utah passed a law declaring pornography a “public health crisis,” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“even when women are in the spotlight, men are often in control behind the scenes.” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody else’s. That we are the main characters in our own play, not props in somebody else’s—which is how women’s sexuality is treated now. Whatever the outside attitudes about sexuality it’s always about somebody’s agenda for us, and I… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share
“A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We’re messy. We don’t behave. In fact, the original definition of “slut” meant “untidy woman.” But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share
“In every medium, women are relentlessly presented as either rewards, ornaments, or obstacles.” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
It just never occurred to me that a school’s policy and student culture could make a big difference in the way I would experience… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“Paying attention to your own desires and limites teaches you to trust yourself, to be strong on your own behalf.” — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
