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The official DHS Twitter account basically did this comic in so many words but genuinely: https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1991532782003044710?s=20 I'm not sure what's…
I don't blame them for being furious. But that it came up in my cartoon is just a coincidence. :-)
The allusion to Charlotte's Web would have seemed completely random last week. Or maybe not completely random, but maybe just…
I don't doubt it, @Watcher, but I limit myself to talking about what I know, which, as a Brit, is…
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Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
Judge in Philidelphia Throws Out Rape Charges Because Victim Is A Prostitute
From Melissa at Shakesville: So there’s this judge. Her name—her name—is Teresa Carr Deni, and she’s a municipal judge in the Philadelphia Municipal Court. And recently, a defendant in her courtroom was accused of raping a prostitute at gunpoint—and inviting … Continue reading →
Sexual Abuse Survivor Suspended From Eastern Illinois University For Having Flashback
From Inside Higher Ed: While enrolled at Eastern Illinois, Manges says she saw a private counselor off campus to deal with her diagnosis of PTSD — a result of the sexual abuse she experienced from 1999 through 2000, when someone … Continue reading →
Exploring Feminism In Relation to BDSM, Part 1: Control Without Consent
When I was in high school, I knew a 19 year old girl named Christina who had lived a sheltered life. Her elder brother died on a plane flight to Mexico when he was 19, so her parents kept her … Continue reading →
Guest Post: What really happened to Pfc. LaVena Johnson?
(This guest post is reprinted from Daisy’s Dead Air with Daisy’s kind permission.) Left: Pfc. LaVena Johnson, photo from Essence From the blog BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS comes a case that I have heard NOTHING … Continue reading →
Science Daily: Teen Girls Report Abusive Boyfriends Try To Get Them Pregnant
I’m not going to return to substantive blogging, but I’m going to experiment with doing occasional link posts, and posts that are composed entirely of quotes. Like this post.
Central Connecticut State University Student Paper Prints Cartoon About Urinating and Holding Captive a 14 Year Old Latina
Update: Some students at CCSU have started their own blog–Take Back the Recorder— in opposition to the paper’s editorial staff. Go show them your support. Last February we heard the story of a college newspaper in Connecticut that printed an … Continue reading →
More About Those Attackers in the West Virginia Hate Crime Case
Update: I wrote this post this afternoon before the announcement that prosecutors will not bring hate crimes charges in this case. I’ll make a more detailed update tomorrow. So I guess that some of the people in the West Virginia … Continue reading →
Black Woman Attacked, Sexually Assaulted, and Held Captive in West Virginia
Update: The AP, in a rather suspect move, is reporting the victim’s name, which will not be appearing on this site. They are saying they have permission; however, to me it feels like they are taking advantage of this young woman, … Continue reading →
A mistake I hope to only make once
I’m going to retell a story I’ve written about before. A few years back some friends of mine dragged me to a feminist meeting at the house of a woman I didn’t know, although I realised when I got there … Continue reading →
My Daughter's Vagina, Part 4
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 At eleven, I’m the youngest of eight boys lined up along one row of lockers in the otherwise empty men’s locker room at the swimming pool to which the day camp I am attending … Continue reading →
Here's a perspective of the impact of illegal immigration you might be interested in: https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/11/20/the-lie-that-broke-a-nation-jobs-americans-wont-do-and-the-economic-and-social-devastation-it-hid-n4946215