New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed women, report finds

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of sexually harassing multiple women, subjecting them to unwanted kissing and groping, in a damning independent investigation.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Full Response to Rep. Ted Yoho

Outrage In South Korea: It's Not About The Coronavirus

Once again the large amount of misogyny, sexual assault and abuse  has once more been brought into the light.  Like the scandal involving male K-pop stars who illegally upload video of sexual encounters without the women's knowledge or consent.    This time it involves the abuse of not only women but of junior high school girls whom their abusers treated like sex slaves.

 

Outrage in South Korea over Telegram sexual abuse ring blackmailing women and girls

 Alleged ringleader forced victims to carve ‘slave’ into their bodies and send him degrading images that were shared with scores of others

A sexual blackmail ring that operated on the app Telegram and targeted dozens of women, including underage girls, has rocked South Korea and triggered demands for authorities to crack down on the rising number of sexual offences online.

Police on Wednesday took the unusual step of naming the man who allegedly ran an online network that lured at least 58 women and 16 girls into what authorities called “virtual enslavement” by blackmailing them into sending degrading and, in come cases, violent sexual images of themselves.

Cho Ju-bin faces charges of violating the child protection act, the privacy act and the sexual abuse act, as well as abuse, threats, and coercion, after he was identified as the blackmail ring’s leader.

Why Kavanaugh's accusers can't remember everything

In the weeks since Prof. Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a high school gathering, media coverage has focused heavily on Ford’s memories. Ford admits that she can’t remember key details about the incident, including whose house it took place at and how she got home afterward. Those gaps in her memory have led many of her critics to argue that Ford isn’t credible. Fox News in particular has seized on holes in Ford’s account to raise doubts about her allegations , even floating the theory that Ford may be confusing Kavanaugh for a doppelganger. But forgetting non-essential details is not unusual for trauma survivors. As my colleague Brian Resnick has explained, human memory is notoriously faulty. We often forget or misremember details about our experiences, even if we initially perceived them clearly.

Women are not as divided on #MeToo as it may seem

The #MeToo movement has rapidly gained support and criticism as more women have come forward to share their experiences. While the media portrays the movement as divided, our research found that women across generations often see eye to eye on issues of sexual harassment and #MeToo in general.

New study ranks most notorious Japanese train stations for perverts

In Japan, the word fushinsha literally translates to “suspicious person“, and is commonly used by police as a catch-all term to describe voyeurs, flashers and chikan gropers who usually commit acts of sexual harassment in public, often on public transport.

According to JASPIC, 11,607 incidents were officially recorded from March to October this year, with 4,487 reports occurring in the proximity of train stations. The following 25 stations were identified as being the most notorious for suspicious persons, with nine cases recorded at each one.

• Shin-Sapporo (Hokkaido Prefecture)
• Nagamachi-Minami (Miyagi Prefecture)
• Maebashi (Gunma Prefecture)
• Higashi-Omiya (Saitama Prefecture)
• Miyahara (Saitama Prefecture)
• Kami-Fukuoka (Saitama Prefecture)
• Kita-Toda (Saitama Prefecture)
• Kasukabe (Saitama Prefecture)
• Tokorozawa (Saitama Prefecture)
• Shiki (Saitama Prefecture)
• Tozuka-Angyo (Saitama Prefecture)
• Nishi-Kawaguchi (Saitama Prefecture)
• Honjo (Saitama Prefecture)
• Ikuta (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Noborito (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Mukogaoka-Yuen (Kanagawa Prefecture)
• Shizuoka (Shizuoka Prefecture)
• Hamamatsu (Shizuoka Prefecture)
• Komyoike (Osaka Prefecture)
• Yamato-Saidaiji (Nara Prefecture)
• Kobe-Sannomiya (Hyogo Prefecture)
• HyogoHimeji ( Prefecture)
• Okayama (Okayama Prefecture)
• Hiroshima (Hiroshima Prefecture)
• Meinohama (Fukuoka Prefecture)

Prefectural Ranking

Looking at the wider picture, taking into account the total reports of suspicious persons from each prefecture, reveals the following results.

1. Saitama (1,711)
2. Osaka (1,227)
3. Aichi (989)
4. Tokyo (969)
5. Hyogo (923)
6. Hokkaido (717)
7. Shizuoka (687)
8. Kanagawa (537)
9. Fukuoka (508)
10. Miyagi (426)
11. Hiroshima (382)
12. Kyoto (362)
13. Chiba (241)
14. Okayama (149)

Tokyo’s Most Notorious Stations

• Akitsu, Higashimurayma City (8 reports)
• Kita-Senju, Adachi Ward (7 reports)
• Hachioji, Hachioji City (6 reports)
• Araiyakushi-Mae, Nakano Ward (6 reports)
• Higashi-Jujo, Kita Ward (6 reports)
• Jujo, Kita Ward (6 reports)
• Umejima, Adachi Ward (6 reports)
• Mizue, Edogawa Ward (6 reports)
• Ogikubo, Suginami Ward (6 reports)
• Nishi-Kasai, Edogawa Ward (6 reports)

Why this elbow is a TIME person of the year

Time magazine named "the Silence Breakers" its Person of the Year for 2017. These are the women and men who shared their stories of assault, harassment, and hostility and publicly named their alleged abusers. But the story goes beyond the magazine’s cover. That elbow in the lower right-hand corner is attached to a young hospital worker from Texas, who anonymously reported her harassment for fear of the negative impact it could have on her and her family. It represents a much larger contingent than the women on the cover: the silence keepers. Sexual harassment and sexual assault are both underreported. A government study by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that about 70 percent of harassment is never reported. The same report aggregated a study that found when people did report harassment, about 75 percent of faced some sort of retaliation for doing so.