Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues

An "epidemic" of female teachers committing statutory rape?

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Ampersand

On a right-wing website, Joe Kovacs writes: The seeming U.S. epidemic of cases involving female teachers raping or molesting their students has been “sexported” Down Under, as Australia is experiencing a similar rash of cases. Kovacs goes on to list … Continue reading →

Posted in Mary Koss controversy, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Sexism hurts men | 37 Comments

Violence Against Women Act passes!

Posted on December 19, 2005 by Ampersand

Good news – VAWA (the Violence Against Women Act) has passed reauthorization in both the Senate and the House, with a 20% increase in funding. It will not have to be reauthorized again until 2010. VAWA, among other things, funds … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 79 Comments

Contact your Congress Critters TODAY To Support VAWA

Posted on December 15, 2005 by Ampersand

The Violence Against Women Act will come up for reauthorization any day now. So please, today is the day to contact your congresscritter’s and ask them to support VAWA. Here’s a link that makes it easy for you. And if … Continue reading →

Posted in Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 8 Comments

False Rape Convictions Without False Accusations

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Ampersand

With all the discussion of false rape convictions on this blog lately, I thought it could be worth pointing out that one form of false rape conviction doesn’t involve false accusations at all. Many false rape convictions now being discovered … Continue reading →

Posted in Race, racism and related issues, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues, Sexism hurts men | 32 Comments

Update on the "Guilty of Insufficiently Traumatized Behavior" Case

Posted on December 7, 2005 by Ampersand

Preemptive Karma provides this interesting update to the “Insufficiently Traumatized Behavior” case. [The alleged false reporter’s attorney] is filing an appeal in the next few days. Due to the arcane system in the City of Beaverton, there is no court … Continue reading →

Posted in Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 19 Comments

Oregon Woman Convicted of Acting Insufficiently Traumatized

Posted on December 4, 2005 by Ampersand

An Oregon woman who says she was gang-raped by three men, has been convicted of filing false rape charges, because she failed to act “traumatized” enough. From the Oregonian: After a day-and-a-half trial, Municipal Judge Peter A. Ackerman on Friday … Continue reading →

Posted in Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 185 Comments

African Girl Brides Traded Like Cattle

Posted on November 28, 2005 by Ampersand

From an article in the New York Times: In villages throughout northern Malawi, girls are often married at or before puberty to whomever their fathers choose, sometimes to husbands as much as half a century older. Many of those same … Continue reading →

Posted in International issues, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 24 Comments

British Poll: Rape and Victim-Blaming

Posted on November 21, 2005 by Ampersand

Reader MB sent me a link to this story: A new ICM opinion poll commissioned by Amnesty International indicates that a third (34%) of people in the UK believe that a woman is partially or totally responsible for being raped … Continue reading →

Posted in Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 321 Comments

Study: Abusers Give Flowers More Often

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Ampersand

A new study (actually, three linked studies) in the academic journal Personal Relationships found that men who give flowers are also more likely to be abusers. Put another way, men who abuse their wives or girlfriends also have to work … Continue reading →

Posted in Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 44 Comments

Right-Wing Libertarians Respond To Nick

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Ampersand

Two of my favorite right-wing bloggers, Jane Galt and Cathy Young, have commented – in a rather unkind fashion – on Nicks’ recent posts about rape. Jane, responding to Nick’s fantasy of what Nick’s “ideal world” would be like, wrote: … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Libertarianism, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 121 Comments