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With regards to the courts, I think we’re about to see the Supremes tell lower courts that their rulings will…
the people he picks to work in his administration are supposed to support that effort as long as they don’t…
@Ron: What do you think Trump did in his first term that was unique or made a positive impact on…
During his first term Trump walked into the White House with no experience in government, so he selected a lot…
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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 →
A relevant quote from law professor Amanda Frost: Attitudes towards nationwide injunctions also turn on one’s view of the courts…