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Would a historically Democratic voter be so turned off by the candidate being a woman that they would either vote…
@Corso going to follow Amp's lead and ignore the attack. But this: Gretchen Whitmer is the governor of Michigan. Michigan’s…
I know I said I'd take a step back, and I fully intended to, and I think I'll just not…
Dianne: "Whereas RFK spending an undisclosed amount of taxpayers’ money to make a video of himself shirtless with Kid Rock…
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Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
Fred Phelps' son discusses abusive childhood
(MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS — Lots of stuff about how Fred Phelps abused his entire family. Please be cautious about reading on or following the links if you think it may be a trigger for you.)
Silence is the Enemy
Marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum is, along with Chris Mooney, a co-blogger at The Intersection, a blog on science and public policy whose RSS feed should be in your reader, and if it isn’t, you should go, right now, and rectify … Continue reading →
Blogs discussing the "strip search" case
Other blogs discussing the oral arguments in the case I blogged about yesterday. You’re Reading Too Much Into It, an interesting blog about politics and pop culture, starts by discussing Breyer’s infamous remarks and segways into critiquing the Daily Show’s … Continue reading →
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Okay Schools Strip-Searching 13-year-old for Ibuprofen; also, Stephen Breyer needs to stop rewatching that scene in "Porky's"
Dahlia Lithwick reports on the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, involving a 13 year old girl stripped-searched because she had been falsely accused of giving ibuprofen to other students: Adam Wolf, the ACLU lawyer who represents Redding, explains that … Continue reading →
Teaching And The Need To Speak Out About Sexual Abuse
I was not planning to start posting again until I could begin in earnest the series I want to do on classical Iranian literature–and interruption after interruption after interruption has kept me from getting to the point where I am … Continue reading →
Skepticism and Criticism of Eugene Kanin’s Study Of False Rape Reports
[Shorter Amp: Eugene Kanin famously found that 41%, or perhaps 50%, of rapes reported to police are false. Kanin’s study is both badly designed and unverifiable; more reliable studies have found that between 2% and 8% of rapes reported to … Continue reading →
The US government's crime survey is severely underestimating rape prevalence
[Trigger Warning! This post includes a sample question from a study which asked graphic questions about rape.] (I know that some “Alas” readers looked at the title of this blog post and said “well, no kidding: isn’t that obvious?” But … Continue reading →
Chello Speak
You listen. Seriously. Go now.
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
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Billy Goes a-Stalkin'
So as you may recall, Bill O’Reilly was invited by the Alexa Foundation to give a speech at a fundraiser. The Alexa Foundation is a group that supports rape survivors — a great cause — but the invitation to O’Reilly … Continue reading →
Rape Culture and the "Colonized" Mind
This email was sent to the Alas moderators and I thought it would be a good thing for everyone to discuss. So I have an interesting, for lack of a better word, anecdote relating to rape culture. I am a … Continue reading →
Corso: By being the oldest, whitest, most milquetoast centrist candidate on the face of the planet and run on a…