Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 18, 2024The Biggest Crisis A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins.
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
A twitter conversation with Cathy Young about rape, sex, and consent.
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Geroge Will’s Preposterous Rape Math
One way unserious people tire you out is by taking 15 minutes to write something unserious. It takes you four hours to undo their ignorance. —Ta-Nehisi Coates In an amazingly bad column about campus rape, George Will discusses some statistics … Continue reading →
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How To Misreport A Rape Prevalence Study, National Review Style
Katherine Connell in the National Review writes: In its definition of rape, the CDC’s “National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence” survey includes sex that occurred when the victim was drunk or high, regardless of whether she was incapacitated or unable … Continue reading →
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“Of Course There Are Times When a Man Has to Discipline His Wife!”
One of the reasons I haven’t been blogging lately is that I’ve been hard at work on an essay that I thought was going to be a very simple one to write. Instead, it has turned out to be one … Continue reading →
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“For My Son, A Kind of Prayer” is in Voice Male Magazine
This publication makes me very happy. If you don’t know about Voice Male, you should. My poem is on page 28 of the current issue:
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Anti-Rape PSA Shows Ways Bystanders Can Prevent Rape (and also, “what if they’re both drunk?”)
I really liked this anti-rape PSA from New Zealand. It shows the lead-up to a rape, but then rewinds time and shows several different outcomes in which bystanders of one kind or another (a friend, a bartender, etc) step up … Continue reading →
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Two excellent but long comic strips about sexual harassment and assault
I thought this cartoon by sci-fi novelist Jim Hines was terrific, despite his lack of technical skill: Then click over and read Street Harassment In An Ideal World, which is very possibly the most delightful cartoon about harassment ever. And … Continue reading →
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Kickstarter Shows What A Real Apology Looks Like
“We were wrong.” None of this “we’re sorry if anyone had their feelings hurt” nonsense. And the $25,000 to RAINN (a charity I admire and have given to) goes a long way, too.
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Stand-Up Comedy, Rape Jokes, and the Word “Faggot”
The New York Times quotes Sarah Silverman: “I need more rape jokes,” she shouted nasally before letting her fans in on what she called a comedy secret, that such jokes are actually not so “edgy” after all. “Who’s going to … Continue reading →
Rape, Harassment, Race, Fear of Crime, and So On.
So a blog I subscribed to on (the soon to be late and lamented) Google Reader ages ago – mostly likely because I thought the author wrote something really excellent – recently began a new blog. Clicking over, I found … Continue reading →
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