Sorry, this week's a last-minute fill-in - and there's still too much material. The good, the bad & the ugly below the orange whatchamacallit.
Republican outreach to women continues: Minnesota Republican candidate Jim Hagedorn referred to female Senators as as "bimbos in tennis shoes."
Meanwhile, Republican State Rep Henry Rayhons has been arrested for sexually abusing his wife, who was in a care facility and so ill that she lacked the mental capacity to consent. She has since passed away.
Kaiser Health News finds that some insurers are illegally denying contraceptive coverage. Hey insurers, it's whole lot more expensive to cover a pregnancy!
An Oklahoma police officer has been arrested for sexual assault on at least six women, using traffic stops or simply stopping women while walking and threatening them with arrest. Notably, he targeted African-American women, who were likely to find the threat of being arrested for literally nothing to be believable.
70 percent of voters do not want any more restrictions placed on abortion. Will they be more influential than the 90 percent of voters who want background checks for guns?
With campus rape still a serious problem, and college policies often inadequate or even hostile to victims, Bloomberg publishes a hand-wringing piece on how anti-rape efforts are so hard on men's sex lives. Meanwhile, several studies have shown the importance of peers in preventing campus rape.
In South Carolina, the rate of women killed by men is twice the national average.
The NY Post managed to find a woman to write a really dumb article on how getting catcalls is "flattering' and even "empowering." Emily May and Debjani Roy respond: actually, they lead to gender-based violence. Kate Conway on responding to harassment.
Dos and don'ts when trying to support someone experiencing online harassment.
Liz Smith: all grown up and still no kids.
Michele A. Roberts is the new head of the NBA Players Union.