Welcome to Gender Letter — a weekly take on news, trends and culture by The Times’s gender editor, Jessica Bennett. Dear Readers,“He seemed not to know what the word ‘consent’ means.”That’s one of the quotes that jumped out at me from a damning article published by The New Yorker on Monday. Four former girlfriends of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accused him of sexual abuse, describing in chilling detail how Mr. Schneiderman slapped them and choked them, sometimes during sex, and verbally and emotionally abused them. This is the same Eric Schneiderman who filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein’s company. For me, it was also unsettling timing, as I was preparing to roll out a major project about sexual consent — albeit of a very different nature.

Source: New York Times May 11, 2018 13:41 UTC