The Cornell Seven and Victim Blaming: Train Your Sons, Not Your Daughters

Content warning: This episode discusses SA and r*pe culture.

Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown of Messy Liberation unpack the Cornell sexual assault case, the group chat of 50-plus men who joked about it, and the rape culture that made it possible. This intersectional feminist conversation covers victim blaming, fraternity culture, consent, and why staying silent when your friends say harmful things makes you complicit. It also covers how misogyny hurts men too.

In this episode, we get into:

• Taina's trip to Iceland for the Wicker premiere, and why the film's nameless characters make it a feminist fable without being Barbie-style feminism

• The pneumonic plague case in Russia: why panic isn't the answer, and why access to antibiotics should be universal

• The Cornell case: what to call it, and why "rapist" sounds like a job title

• Fraternity culture, hazing, and why consent under duress isn't consent

• Kendall Francis speaking out at LSU, and campus-wide warnings to "stay home" instead of telling men not to rape

• Why men need to stop talking about "training their daughters" and start calling out their friends

• How misogyny hurts men: male sexual assault, shame, and the cycle of harm

• The group chat as a permission structure, and complicity in the Nolan Wells case

• Asking vs. demanding: liberal feminism, "hearts and minds," and why willful ignorance is violence