Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues

False Rape Reports

Although I’ve written a fair amount about the rape prevalence controversy over the years, I haven’t discussed false rape reports. Feminists tend to claim that false rape reporting is relatively uncommon; anti-feminists and men’s rights advocates (MRAs) tend to claim … Continue reading

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Ohio Principal Tries to Cover Up Gang Rape in School Auditorium

No doubt some girls act just as MOM describes. But what does any of this have to do with a “developmentally disabled” girl who is dragged onto an auditorium stage, hit, and told “if you scream, I’ll have all my boys punch you”? The girl in this case wasn’t using her “powers of sexual attraction” to make herself a “superstar”; she was raped by a bunch of assholes using the power of threats and fists. To use a discussion of a gang-rape as a springboard for discussing how girls are victimizers, too, is bizarre and disturbing. Continue reading

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But Women Do It, Too

Bean quotes from this Jack Straton essay about child custody, and I can’t resist reproducing the same quote here: In the process, I am going to talk today about the effects of male power and control over children, not about … Continue reading

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Girls Sports Coaches and Rape

ESPN.com entitles this article about girl’s sports team coaches who commit statutory rape “The Dark Side of Title IX.” Two comments: First, I believe that men with jock mentalities, because they’re so much more likely to thoughtlessly buy into cultural … Continue reading

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Does Ohio's anti-SSM amendment protect girlfriend-beaters?

This is twisted. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ohio’s quarter-century-old domestic-violence law gives special criminal status to an assault by a family or household member and establishes unique protections for the victim. Courts also have consistently applied it to homosexual … Continue reading

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"Equity feminism" and rape

(This is the second of three posts on “equity feminism” and “gender feminism.” Part one is here; part three is here). How far do “equity feminists” go in denying that there’s any widespread problem of sexism for feminism to address … Continue reading

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Christina Hoff Sommers, Feminism, sexism, etc, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 49 Comments

Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers in Congo

This is old-ish news, but I don’t want it to fall off the collective map. One hundred and fifty sexual abuse cases are under investigation by the United Nations, and the offenders are the peacekeepers themselves. From the NYTimes: The … Continue reading

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Various links to various places

I’ve been meaning to link to Liliane, Bi-Dyke for ages. Lots of really terrific cartoons here. I particularly enjoyed her 27-page comic for women who’d like to be taken for men, Tips on Passing. I wasted some time today reading … Continue reading

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Legal Wife-Beating In Egypt

If you’re in a mood to be disgusted and angered, go read this Human Rights Watch report, “Women’s Unequal Access to Divorce in Egypt.” Or, if you’re in more of a hurry, read this Guardian article on the report. From … Continue reading

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Rape and Abuse at Oregon State Hospital

Sheelzebub at Pinko Feminist Hellcat comments on this Oregonian article, documenting a pattern of abuse and rape by Oregon State Hospital workers at Ward 40, a treatment center for children and teenagers. Even worse, the hospital had a pattern of … Continue reading

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