Reposted by AGAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly 5326113
Reposted by AGJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 201926398
Reposted by AGJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime. 131310186
Reposted by AGJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL 712581624
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/09/2026Men's entitlement to extracting sex from women at any cost (to the woman), ignoring all signs of distress or pain or inability to actively participate, doesn't come from some abstract "biological" cause but a culture that reinforces sex as a woman's only function. We have not progressed past that. 235660
Reposted by AGAdi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the industry currently running most of american politics is operated by a bunch of guys who think humanity needs to be biologically reengineered to survive sci-fi artificial intelligence but sexual violence is just like, *evolution*, man 211613
Reposted by AGImmanuel Cunt @sheogorath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can’t believe it’s 2026 and I still have to see men try to argue that calling them creeps is actually ableist against hypothetical autistic men who (I guess) can’t stop doing sex crimes, as a symptom of autism. 2154
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But I just did what nearly all writing about the issue does: talked about the percent of women on campus who will become victims without talking about the percent of men on campus who will become perpetrators. Most campus rape victims know their assailants. 558491
Reposted by AGKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Plus: "So long as there’s room for the *possibility* that the accused student *might have thought* there was consent, the university won’t take action against them, several Title IX administrators told Bedera":jezebel.comNot Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special TreatmentSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 115519
Reposted by AGKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:jezebel.comNot Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special TreatmentSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 1664229
Reposted by AGalyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026[extremely surprised voice] oh. the transphobe. is anti-woman. and loves cis men. I am not sure. my poor little heart. can take. such shock. and surprise. 350165
Reposted by AGShell @risu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh I have stories… when I lived in California a LOT of tech men made some wildly inappropriate suggestions to me, a lot of them later panicked when they realised I was over 40. Oh and once you say no, or protect other women? They make sure you don’t get work and are labelled “difficult”. 142
Reposted by AGSoraya Chemaly @sorayachemaly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cornell, LSU, the Burnerverse, Clavicular…just one week. Men are putting their impunity and cruelty on display so brazenly. Humiliating/punishing women has always gone on, but now rape is networked, scalable, monetized. Our systems aren’t failing, tho, they’re doing what they are designed to do.sorayachemaly.substack.com33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and PainFrom the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men 16022
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's that other thread I mentioned: 017323
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The real solution is collective, not individual: "Based on her study of more than 150 tribal societies, she identified what makes a society or culture “rape prone,” “rape free,” or something between the two.... in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety, and freedom." 333863
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Soraya: "Experts and administrators are publicly agonizing over men’s flight from higher education but seem willing to tolerate communities, behaviors, and campus environments where persistent sexual violence is essentially a tool that is informally filtering and expelling women students." 120128
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Read this by @sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "Rates of violence against women are significantly higher on Division I campuses than at Division II, III, or universities with no athletic programs. Game days at top college football schools are associated with a 28 percent increase in area reports of rape."sorayachemaly.substack.comUnmannedTalking about male supremacy, conservative backlash, managing tetchy feelings, and embracing joyful feminist refusal. Click to read Unmanned, by Soraya Chemaly, a Substack publication with thousands o... 120363
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"It may surprise some sexual assault survivors to learn that universities do not have a responsibility to report instances of assault to law enforcement authorities. In general, that benefits universities, not survivors."shubinlaw.comWho Does My University Report My Sexual Assault To?Colleges and universities don’t have to forward reports of sexual assault to the police. In fact, many schools choose to handle these situations internally. 543689
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's a system set up to funnel young women into enemy territory, where this stuff happens over and over. 761762
Reposted by AGRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026p.s. "The National Panhellenic Conference, which governs the country’s 26 major sororities, maintains that sisters can’t swig booze in sorority houses — even as the fraternity down the street throws a keg party," sending the women into enemy territory to drink. Prohibition should be on frat houses.washingtonpost.comWhy frat bros can throw parties but sorority sisters aren’t allowed toThe new Seth Rogen film explores why Greek men and women don't have the same rights 9677133
Reposted by AGKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Flock camera proliferation is going to make things really, really, really scary for women trying to leave abusive relationships with partners who are cops. They may also increase the number of women arrested for little to no reason. 318928
Reposted by AGKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Given that cops have been admitting to using Flock cameras to surveil, stalk, and harass women they know--- and in some cases, were in relationships with--- I have more questions. 6630146
Reposted by AGAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The seven men are named in the lawsuit the former student filed against Cornell this week. Let’s dim the hell out of those bright futures the school surely invoked to justify their bare-minimum consequences 🙏🏻 873962
Reposted by AGAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 12431341283
Reposted by AGSorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think the modern tendency to excuse or sympathise with villains has gone too far & has led us down an absurd path where you can’t even fictionally hold someone accountable for bad behaviour without exhaustively considering their childhood trauma/mental health/neurodivergence. Bad behaviour is bad! 716715
Reposted by AGMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 116829
Reposted by AGMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“It doesn’t work and also can I patent it?” 814119
Reposted by AGlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/09/2026ok sincere question and not looking to dunk. has this guy ever had an actually interesting original thought 54103240
Reposted by AGAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Mankeeping--serving as a partner's sole emotional support--correlates with women's lower relationship satisfaction & higher relationship burden and burnout and depression, anxiety, and stress. Women with traditional gender role beliefs more likely to mankeep. www.psypost.org/mankeeping-t...psypost.orgA psychological scale for 'mankeeping' turned up a pattern its creators flagged carefully: women with more traditional views of gender roles reported doing more of it, and more of it went with more bu...A newly developed psychological survey measures "mankeeping"—the unpaid labor women perform to manage their male partners' social lives. Findings show that this effort is strongly associated with rela... 33615
Reposted by AGDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026I spent two years as a postdoc that involved testing some of his theories and yes, his studies are faulty indeed 110321
Reposted by AGJessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Because Tilly is a pretty object made to be used by men, so of course it’s a “she” to them. Whereas trans woman clearly have interiority & agency who use it to refuse their bullshit hierarchy, so of course we are villainous subhuman monsters undeserving/incapable of having true personhood. 151510331
Reposted by AGLindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just once I would love for one of these Silicon Valley fart hot boxing mfers who says AI is going to kill us all to explain the mechanism by which it will do so. And please don’t say nukes – you guys do not begin to understand how analog that shit is. 58102584
Reposted by AGImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it. 6673042110
Reposted by AGRebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 14/09/2026I'm only down to the part where Wired posts a screenshot of a disgusting, misogynistic Tweet that includes this girl's first and last name, where they censor the username of the person who sent it. I know she's chosen to go on record but what are we doing here 516520
Reposted by AGEj Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I first heard about the BV in Feb 2025, when a girl named Mary Kate Cornett trended on X for a false rumor about her sex life. The story was amplified by Barstool and ESPN, despite her being 19 and just a random college girl. I thought it was just a one-off. Then it happened again. And again. 264155
Reposted by AGthemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026this is indeed how the global and local community of cis male solidarity is constructed 0548
Reposted by AGthemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026it's guys you know. it's your brother, your cousin, your college buddy. 27310
Reposted by AGthemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026CW: sexual assault - every month or so you find out yet another story about men across the country using the internet to mass sexually abuse a randomly selected woman or girl and it really throws all the handwringing about "appealing to men" and "male loneliness" and "smoothgroins" into sharp relief 213327
Reposted by AGArghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 10/09/2026Every time Zverev plays (as he is now), I wonder where all the “protect women’s sports” people are. It sure looks like they don’t actually care about women or women’s sports. 2184
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026"Doris Stevens wrote wearily over ONE HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS AGO" 08014
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026"Women who refuse to be reproductive property and perform their duties as incubators for the Nation undermine its very foundations" is like. A really really common sentiment across cultures and times. 125731
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026Also "Great Replacement"-style conspiracies entwined with backlash to women's rights are just so core to nation-building, hegemonic demographic anxieties and right-wing political projects that we ought to have a much better understanding of the phenomenon. 127247
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026The lesson is that the next time the pendulum swings towards feminist politics, you don't fucking stop until <excessively radfem opinion redacted for author's safety>. 134428
Reposted by AGCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 08/09/2026the biggest problem with 2010s progressivism was that it wasn’t radical enough, too assimilationist, too nice, too compromising, so it’s depressing how much we are sliding back and how many ghouls in media are going “woke went too far” as if they aren’t still alive. 116539
Reposted by AGMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Seems very pointed that Angela Davis did this. www.wlrn.org/npr-breaking...wlrn.orgI don't think I had $10 in the bank: Angela Davis remembers Gloria Steinem's allyshipActivist and author Angela Davis remembers her friend Gloria Steinem, and discusses intersectional feminism today. 9386118
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/09/2026I think we've seen this pattern repeat often enough to dispense with the idea that those who deprioritize defending marginalized populations are misguided or single-minded or whatever convenient excuse you'd like to offer up. Misogyny, transphobia, racism, ableism---they enjoy consensus. 249284
Reposted by AGTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/09/2026A basic fact about how the right operates is that they take attacks on women's rights, trans people, immigrants and racialized people etc. deathly seriously, while many liberals and even many leftists dismiss them as 'distractions' or 'culture issues'. Often due to tacit agreement. 91087309
