In an attempt to 'explain and demystify to boys what girls go through at puberty,' the book reinforces the notion that women's and girls' bodies exist primarily in relation to how they're viewed by men and boys.

We had a lot of talk about Nazis yesterday, because apparently that's a thing we need to be doing now in 2017. However, lest you think that white supremacy has taken over as the oppression du jour, let's not forget that there's still sexism and misogyny to contend with. Some forms of oppression never go out of style!

Following the festival's cancellation, one woman wrote on Twitter, "What do you think about putting together a really cool festival where only non-men are welcome, that we’ll run until ALL men have learned how to behave themselves?" That idea ended up having a lot of supporters.

That doesn't sound like this juror had "reasonable doubt." That sounds like he believes Bill Cosby is guilty, but didn't want to declare him guilty, because then Cosby would be punished, and this juror thinks he's been through enough. It also sounds like he doesn't understand the difference between a civil case (in 2005) and a criminal case (now).

The jury in Bill Crosby's trial for aggravated indecent assault has deadlocked, resulting in a mistrial. However, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele issued a statement that he will seek a new trial.

Bill Cosby's trial began this morning after at least 60 women have come forward over the last few years to accuse him of rape and sexual assault. But Cosby isn't on trial for the dozens of crimes he allegedly committed. He's on trial for one.

In a study of 1,355 privately insured women who went to the hospital after being raped, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that the average victim had to pay $948 in medical bills.

One Lyft driver from Dallas, Texas named Tro'Juan Henderson went viral over the weekend with a video explaining why he won't drive intoxicated women home alone. It's not because of a fear of vomit in his car, and it's not related to any of that Mike Pence "Billy Graham rule" nonsense. It's because sexual assault doesn't exist just between the assaulter and a victim. The culture that allows this kind of behavior to be excused or ignored needs to be addressed.

A 17-year-old-girl in the affluent state of Veracruz, Mexico was attending a New Year's party with friends from her exclusive Catholic high school on the first day of 2015. As she was preparing to leave, 19-year-old Diego Cruz and three of his friends forced her into a car and allegedly sexually assaulted her.

This week, a new PSA was released as part of the "It's On Us" campaign, which encourages everyone to "be part of the solution" to sexual assault, rather than a bystander. And as this video, titled "Autocorrect" points out, being a bystander doesn't necessarily mean literally, physically standing by and watching something happens. It extends to the complicity of not questioning how a culture that allows rape and sexual assault can be treated so casually.

The results are in from what the University of Texas officials called "the nation’s most comprehensive study on sexual assaults ever conducted in higher education"--and they're horrifying. 15% of all undergraduate female students at UT Austin, 9% at UT Dallas and UT San Antonio, and 10% across all UT schools reported being raped.

This week, Kesha appeared in front of the New York Supreme Court, hoping against hope that Justice Shirley Kornreich, who has previously ruled in alleged rapist Dr. Luke’s favor, would reconsider an amended lawsuit. However, Kornreich sided with him again, this time with a side-helping of victim blaming.

Roman Polanski was asked to preside over France's César Awards. Feminist groups were not having it.

When the now-President-elect brags about sexual assault, it is powerful, tacit permission for anyone and everyone else to do the same. And if you didn't believe that was true before, here's a disturbing new example of Trump culture, from another politician flaunting his presumed privilege.

This NYPD Police Captain discussed the types of sexual assault and accidentally revealed some troubling and dangerous misconceptions.

In most storytelling, from films and TV to comics, the sexual assault of female characters is an oft-used plot device that is often a frustrating "shorthand" for character development. It's made even more frustrating by the fact that too often, it's used not in the interest of developing the female character to whom it happened, but to motivate the male characters around her to action. Thankfully, there are television showrunners who are just as tired of Rape-As-Plot-Device as we are!

“I’m not very good at this, I never wanted to try again," grimaces Christian Grey in the new Fifty Shades Darker trailer. I mean, we're not going to disagree.