The Scarlet String Bikini and the New Shame
The old practice of attacking a complainant’s virtue in a sexual-assault trial gives way to the new strategy of casting her as flirtatious female hungry for celebrity
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Anne Kingston
Senior Writer and Columnist Anne Kingston covers contemporary culture—everything from medical politics to the politics of food. She is the author of ’The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the 21st Century’ and ’The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice and the Making of Popular Taste.’ Find her at anne.kingston@macleans.rogers.com.
Ghomeshi day 2: An email bombshell, and sidestepping consent
Tuesday’s dramatic reveal at the Jian Ghomeshi trial electrified the courtroom and left big questions in its wake
Ghomeshi trial, day 1: ’Disney car,’ hair extensions, assault
Anne Kingston reports from inside the courthouse on the first day of Jian Ghomeshi’s high-wattage trial for sexual assault
What was really on trial in the Jian Ghomeshi case
Why women in sexual assault cases may be worse off than ever
Everything you need to know about the Jian Ghomeshi trial
A cheat sheet for the most-anticipated Canadian trials of the year, with an insider look at what lawyers are saying and predicting for the case
Janis Winehouse has her chance to remember her daughter Amy
A compelling memoir from Amy Winehouse’s mother tells her side of a tragic story
A new, and dangerous, kind of distracted driver
They hog lanes, ignore emergency vehicles, and treat their cars like multi-tasking way stations. That culture of entitlement makes drivers a new kind of menace.
The real reason behind the great Cauliflower Panic of 2016
The crisis in the cauliflower economy was never about taste: it’s a signal of something much more significant
The blanket that hugs insomniacs to sleep
Suffering from a sleep disorder? Try this blanket on for size.
Is Obama’s plan to cure cancer a ’moonshot’? Or a ’Pluto-shot’?
Joe Biden is ’mission control’ in a fight to cure cancer once and for all. Anne Kingston on why that is a flawed enterprise.