Role Reboot

Why I Dropped My Sexual Harassment Complaint

There were many things in place to protect the harasser, but very little in place to protect me. It’s telling that when I started writing this essay I caught myself trying to write “well, my experience of sexual harassment wasn’t that bad.” Because everything is relative, and because I think many women have a tendency […]

Why We Need To Talk About Men Who Are Raped

Women are told that they could have prevented the rape by wearing more modest clothing or not walking alone late at night. Men are told that there wasn’t a rape to prevent. My student stood braced against the wooden podium at the front of our public speaking classroom and, with a deep breath, addressed the […]