How Experts Think We Can Teach Our Sons To Speak Up When It's Really Hard

Teach our sons that the only cause of rape is a rapist

Marine veteran Joslin Joseph argues against the prevalence of victim-blaming culture following the Cornell rape investigation, asserting that accountability must lie solely with perpetrators.

How Experts Think We Can Teach Our Sons To Speak Up When It's Really Hard

Tatsiana Volkava/Moment/Getty ImagesYou can bet hundreds of thousands of consent conversations between moms and sons have happened this week across the country. “No means no” and “what would you do if” example scripts have infiltrated my social media feed from parenting influencers and regular moms alike.But we have to ask: Didn’t 57 sets of Cornell parents have this same conversation along the way? And yet.The level of denial is incredible. Par…

We need to have a talk with our sons

In the wake of what’s alleged at Cornell University, we gotta talk.Seven young men. One woman. A frat house. A Snap that went out bringing more people in. I’m not going to walk you through the rest. You’ve seen it in every paper and on every feed. A grand jury will decide what the law […]