I’m vain enough to check the stats on my blog reasonably often. Not as much as when I first started writing, when ever reader was a victory, but a few times a week I check how people found me.<\/p>\n
Usually they’re searching for Brad Shipton, Clint Rickards or Bob Schollum. That people who want to know about those men find what I’ve written satisfies me.<\/p>\n
There are always some upsetting searches which manage to convey a weight of racism or misogyny in so few words. I think most feminist bloggers have it worse than I do; I don’t write much about pornography.<\/p>\n
But a few days ago someone found my blog<\/a> by searching for: “rape a woman” “get away with it”.<\/p>\n I’m on the second page. He hadn’t found what he was looking for in the previous 18 sites, so he checked me out. This is what he read:<\/p>\n For most rapists, there are no consequences, formal or informal. There are consequences for all too many women out there who try and pursue justice and safety.<\/p>\n So any men out there, know you can rape women with impunity, know that there is no need to treat women as human beings. I don’t know if you can imagine what it’s like to live as a woman knowing that, maybe you could try.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m scared he read my words and ignored what I was saying. I know that most men who rape face no consequences. I’m terrified that this man is now going to add to that number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m vain enough to check the stats on my blog reasonably often. Not as much as when I first started writing, when ever reader was a victory, but a few times a week I check how people found me. Usually … Continue reading