On Monday, in the wake of a number of rape allegations leveled against Russell Brand, U.K. Metropolitan Police announced they’ve launched a probe into a series
Force says allegations against performer are non-recent and there have been no arrestsScotland Yard has launched an investigation into a number of sexual offence allegations
Readers respond to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s article on the rife misogyny of the 2000s, and reflect back on previous decades
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s article about 2000s misogyny and rape culture strongly reminded me of my own experiences as a young student at a Russell Group university between 2004 and 2008 (The 2000s lad culture that Russell Brand epitomised wasn’t funny then. It looks even more hideous with hindsight, 21 September ).
It was rare to have a night out without being groped by multiple men. During freshers’ week, I was sexually assaulted on a packed dancefloor. My first boyfriend was an emotionally and physically abusive gaslighter, who used to body-shame me. In my final year, living in a flat of boys was an incredibly grim education in how some men speak about and treat women (one of them referred to women as “slits”).