Elliot Rodger was a racist. He was a misogynist. He was spoiled. He was neglected. He was sick. His parents failed him. Law enforcement failed him. Society failed him. Movies and video games are too violent and desensitize us.  → Read More

Increasingly, over the past three decades, orange really has become the new black for a growing number of female inmates who are serving prison sentences for self defense in response to sexual, domestic, and intimate partner violence. These women are survivors of the predation and exploitation that is alarmingly overlooked by America’s criminal justice system, it’s legislators, and law enforcement officials.  → Read More

Earlier this year a TEDxWomen talk I delivered entitled “Violence and Silence” went viral. At this writing, the number of views it’s received is approaching 1.4 million. The subject of the talk is violence against women as a men’s issue. I argued that we need a paradigm shift in our approach to the issues of sexual and domestic violence; instead of seeing them as “women’s issues” that “good men” ought to help out with, we should see them as men’s issues, as most of the violence and abuse is done by men.  → Read More