Jaclyn Friedman, executive director of Women, Action and the Media and editor of the anthology, “Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape,” says the Cleveland case is “an extreme example of a pervasive dynamic in our culture which is one of toxic masculinity.” Friedman explains: “It really expresses something that we see all over the culture, which is men trained to think that the way to be a man is to have power over and to dehumanize women.” More here.
