Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues

A very short post about rape culture

I heard this joke from my mother, when I was about 11 or 12. Two nuns were walking through the woods when they were set upon and raped. One said to the other, “Whatever shall we tell Mother Superior?” The … Continue reading

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Rape and Imprisonment By Proxy At McDonalds

From my inbox: Amp- Did you watch Primetime, on ABC last night? If not, here’s a link. I’ll give your a brief overview of the piece. I’d sure like to see this discussed online. The segment was about an incident … Continue reading

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Men's Rights Groups Consider Victims of Abuse "The Opposition"

Check out this post by the Countess (aka Trish Wilson), debunking various men’s rights claims about the supposed epidemic of false abuse accusations in divorce court. They’ve been shouting louder lately because PBS broadcast a report about abusers who receive … Continue reading

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On victim-blaming and control

It’s virtually a law of Internet discussion that any conversation about rape will turn into a debate about the need for women to keep themselves safe. The attitude that women have the responsibility to protect themselves from rape is, at … Continue reading

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My rape story

The discussion about the man who claims he can’t be a rapist because his penis is too large set me thinking about my own near-miss a couple of months ago. It feels odd to talk about rape in connection with … Continue reading

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Links here, links there, links everywhere

My desktop is getting cluttered with links that I won’t have time to blog about…. Heidi at Letters of Marque on What Women Want: “In short, what this particular woman wants is a wife. And I resent (in a vague … Continue reading

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Lousiana Domestic Violence Shelters Need Your Help

From Bean’s blog: The Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence is accepting donations that are specifically earmarked to assist battered survivors and their children who have been directly affected/displaced by the hurricane. The donations will be used to assist battered victims … Continue reading

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Rape in the wake of Katrina (guest post by Mousehounde)

This truly bothers me. Imagine it: you live though the most traumatic thing that could happen, you lose your family, your home, your job in one fell swoop. You make your way to someplace that should be where you can … Continue reading

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"Don't want to be murdered? Don't marry a murderer!"

Thanks to a commenter on the thread about feminism and the murder rate, I found some interesting discussion about Latoyia Figueroa’s murder (scroll down about two-thirds of the page). Criminologist Jack Levin addresses the horrifying fact that the most common … Continue reading

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Just blame feminism for female sex offenders

An article from The Times (in the U.K.) blames feminism for older women having sexual relations with underage boys. Well you just gotta put all the blame for women “behaving badly” on feminism, right? As everyone knows that if women … Continue reading

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