Women are understandably furious right now. It's not just the fact that we've had to fight for our rights and face losing them while men have them by virtue of birth, or that we constantly have to contend with political rhetoric meant to divide us (please, trans women just want to pee in peace). It's that we keep getting served evidence that we don't really matter to institutions.

And before you decide that I'm a man-hater, know that it's not men I despise; it's systems of oppression.

The events at Cornell University and the reaction to it by men online are just further proof that women need to stand up for themselves. I won't pretend to know all the specifics of the case, but I'm reminded of the Brock Turner case and the judge's justification of not wanting to ruin a young man's life as reasoning for the lenient sentence given to Turner after his conviction on three counts of felony sexual assault in 2016.

In the Cornell case, a woman filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month alleging that she was drugged, assaulted and gang-raped by seven members of a Cornell fraternity. The university barred the fraternity from campus after an administrative investigation in 2024, and the woman's lawsuit claims that the university's Title IX investigation resulted in inadequate disciplinary actions against the fraternity members, including suspensions and writing essays (the university denies that essays were a "sole........

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