WMC News & Features
March 12, 2025 | Chloe Lee, MD, MPH |
Misogyny
The Coddling of the American Man
In searching for solutions to the male loneliness crisis, some American men should take a look in the mirror.
WMC News & Features
July 30, 2020 | Caryl Rivers, Rosalind C. Barnett, Ph.D. |
During the Pandemic, Men Are More Involved Fathers. Will It Last?
Equal parenting has benefits for everyone involved. But to make these changes last, we need a cultural shift — and better family-friendly policies.
WMC Women Under Siege
March 08, 2019 | Caroline Rothstein |
Gender-based violence,
Misogyny,
WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
I was harassed at an anti-harassment training
When toxic masculinity is present at an anti-harassment training.
WMC FBomb
Stop Blaming Women For Men's Violence
Last month, thousands of people watched as a man recorded a live Facebook video of himself shooting 74-year-old Robert Goodwin Sr. The shooter, who has since been identified as Steve Stephens, claimed...
WMC Women Under Siege
The incredible challenge of convicting the first man for rape as a weapon of war
Godeliève Mukasarasi promised God that if her children survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994, she would perform charitable acts. They lived. Soon after, the then 35-year-old social worker and mother founded SEVOTA, or Solidarity for the Development of Widows and Orphans to Promote Self-sufficiency and Livelihoods, a support group for women in the small Rwandan village of Taba.
WMC Women Under Siege
July 16, 2016 | Lauren Wolfe |
International
The Index: Sexual Assault of Men, Mainly in Conflict, by the Numbers
Number of historic armed conflicts around the world in which sexualized violence against men—including rape, sexual torture, mutilation of the genitals, sexual humiliation, sexual enslavement, forced incest and forced rape—has been reported: 25
WMC Women Under Siege
Women in South Africa are living in a war zone
This year has been especially horrific for the women of South Africa. On October 15, two little girls, aged 2 and 3, were found in a public toilet in Diepsloot, a settlement in the north of Johannesburg, according to news reports. The girls, both cousins, who had been abducted in broad daylight, had been raped and strangled.
WMC Women Under Siege
A competition of suffering: Male vs. female rape
One of the main components of our project at WMC’s Women Under Siege is to educate the public about how rape is used not only as a crime of war but also as a strategic tool. During our research on systemic sexualized violence in wartime, we have found that rape disproportionately affects women. But the key term here is disproportionately.
WMC Women Under Siege
The topsy-turvy world of men who oppose anti-violence campaigns
At the start of this year, my friend and WMC’s Women Under Siege director, Lauren Wolfe, started a Twitter hashtag, #2013EndRape, to highlight the epidemic of sexualized violence against women. While the hashtag has seen success, one of the unintended consequences has been its trolling and attacks on it by various “Men’s Rights Activists.”
WMC Women Under Siege
For women, there are no ‘just wars’
No one wants to go to war. Before we commit soldiers and societies to inevitable sacrifice and atrocities, we try to balance the inevitable harm against the potential good. We seek to make the wars we undertake “just” by applying defined criteria to a scale of moral weights and principled measures. Men are tortured and die, women are raped and murdered, children suffer and starve.
WMC Women Under Siege
'Do I give off a slut vibe?' A professor addresses sexism in the Ivy League
“You smell soooo good, I could just eat you up.”
“Here, sit on my lap.” “No, mine!” “I get her first!”
“Putting him alone in a room with a woman is like giving an alcoholic a bottle of booze—he just can’t help himself.”