Oct 1, 2026 · 32 min · 8 segments
If most women have a story like this, why are so many people still shocked? In this solo episode, Hillary talks about the reopened Cornell sexual assault case and why it hit so many women so hard…
Hillary BautchHost
I'm not crazy, right? Is it really all men? [upbeat music] I've spent the past few days absolutely sick over the news of what happened to Jane Doe at Cornell.
I've basically been going between crying and raging, wishing that I could burn the entire world to the ground.
And the craziest part about it is that obviously while the acts committed there were absolutely heinous, I think one of the many reasons that every woman you know is so fired up about this case is because we also all see ourselves in this woman who was the victim of such unimaginable trauma.
Not one of the 57 men in the group chat thought to say, "Hey, this is kind of fucked up.
Maybe you shouldn't be doing this." I wanna share just a few statistics from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center to get started, just to set the stage for how unfortunately and disgustingly common this is.
One in five women in the United States experience completed or at least attempted rape in their lifetimes.
Many of us lived with a group of girls in college, throughout college, or even after.
Think of that handful of people that you lived with, and in that apartment, at least one of them had probably been raped or someone had at least tried to do that to them.
Nationwide, 81% of women have reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment or assault in their lifetime.
Like, what the fuck? One in three female victims of completed or attempted rape experience it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17.
So you are a literal child, and yet the extreme conservatives want abortion to be illegal, so the 11-year-old that got their period really early and went through puberty earlier than normal gets pregnant, and they're supposed to have to keep it.
Like, what? 40% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2017, but only about 25% were reported in 2018.
Why are the number of reports going down? Maybe because when people do report it, no one believes them.
Roughly 80 to 85% of sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim already knows, like a current or former partner, or family member, or an acquaintance, or a coworker.
One in six women experience sexual coercion, AKA being repeatedly asked for sex or pressured from someone, or someone uses their power or authority to try to get that out of you.
One in six have experienced that in their lifetime, and honestly, I'm surprised that that number isn't higher.
The amount of times that myself or friends have even just gone on a date, and we constantly feel pressured, but you can tell the guy wants you to bring them home or literally anything.
I'm not crazy, right? Is it really all men? [upbeat music] I've spent the past few days absolutely sick over the news of what happened to Jane Doe at Cornell.
I've basically been going between crying and raging, wishing that I could burn the entire world to the ground.
And the craziest part about it is that obviously while the acts committed there were absolutely heinous, I think one of the many reasons that every woman you know is so fired up about this case is because we also all see ourselves in this woman who was the victim of such unimaginable trauma.
Not one of the 57 men in the group chat thought to say, "Hey, this is kind of fucked up.
Maybe you shouldn't be doing this." I wanna share just a few statistics from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center to get started, just to set the stage for how unfortunately and disgustingly common this is.
One in five women in the United States experience completed or at least attempted rape in their lifetimes.
Many of us lived with a group of girls in college, throughout college, or even after.
Think of that handful of people that you lived with, and in that apartment, at least one of them had probably been raped or someone had at least tried to do that to them.
Nationwide, 81% of women have reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment or assault in their lifetime.
Like, what the fuck? One in three female victims of completed or attempted rape experience it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17.
So you are a literal child, and yet the extreme conservatives want abortion to be illegal, so the 11-year-old that got their period really early and went through puberty earlier than normal gets pregnant, and they're supposed to have to keep it.
Like, what? 40% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to police in 2017, but only about 25% were reported in 2018.
Why are the number of reports going down? Maybe because when people do report it, no one believes them.
Roughly 80 to 85% of sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim already knows, like a current or former partner, or family member, or an acquaintance, or a coworker.
One in six women experience sexual coercion, AKA being repeatedly asked for sex or pressured from someone, or someone uses their power or authority to try to get that out of you.
One in six have experienced that in their lifetime, and honestly, I'm surprised that that number isn't higher.
The amount of times that myself or friends have even just gone on a date, and we constantly feel pressured, but you can tell the guy wants you to bring them home or literally anything.
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