Archive for 'sexual assault'
Don't Kill For Me: The Case Against Death for Child Rapists
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of Patrick Kennedy, who is being tried for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter, in Louisiana, a state where the crime of child rape carries the death penalty. This will be the first case to reexamine the use of the death penalty for rape since 1977, when [...]
Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Supreme Court, abuse, black males, institutionalized racism, race, racial discrimination, racial profiling, racism, sexual, sexual abuse, sexual assault, statutory rape, supreme, women's rights.
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Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution
Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under 14th, American, Congress, George W. BUsh, National Organization for Women, Senator, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States, Virginia Tech, abigail adams, abusive conduct, agency, amendment, american history, antonio morrison, bill clinton, bitch, campaign, candidate, christy brzonkala, commerce clause, condom, constitution, constitutional, court of appeals, culture, en banc, football players, founding father, founding mother, fourteenth amendment, fuck the shit out of them, george macon university, get girls drunk, government, grand jury, history, human rights, hurting, inequality, james crawford, joe biden, john quincy adams, judge rehnquist, liberty, life, masculine systems, masculinity, no, objectification, opinionatrix, personal safety, pretzel, pursuit of happiness, race, rape, rapist, religion, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, state's rights, stds, strength, survivor, violence, violence against women, violence against women act, woman, women's center, women's liberation, women's rights.
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Showdown: Chauvinist Humor vs. Racist Rhetoric
There’s some need for discussion about this feminism thing. I mean, contrary to popular belief, feminists don’t necessarily hate all men – or love all women, and equally importantly, feminists have a sense of humor. I mean, as matsu’s blog at MediaGirl (hat tip for the image) points out, “Make a racist joke to a [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2007 under Civil Rights, Congress, ERA, Equal Rights Amendment, Other, United States, apples, black, candidate, chauvinism, chauvinist, citizens, civil rights act of 1964, color, discrimination, equality, feminism, feminists, gender, hatred, humor, injustice, institutionalized racism, jail, justice, law, men, minority, nation, national origin, oranges, politically correct, race, racial discrimination, racism, racist, rape, rape trial, religion, rhetoric, sense of humor, sex, sexism, sexual assault, slavery, the Other, white men, women, women's movement.
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You Had Me At Hello: Sex, Power, Rape.
In castellano, as residents of Buenos Aires, who call themselves porteños, call their native language, there are about a hundred ways to say hello. ¿Qué onda, buey? which translates literally as “what wave, ox?”, and more figuratively as “what’s the vibe, dude?” is the friendliest of the bunch, and a common choice among the hip [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under Argentina, Argentine, Buenos Aires, God, Juncal, Nixon, administration, bar, buey, campus, cardboard, castellano, college, country, dinner, dragon, english, feminism, gender, greetings, happening, hello, hoodlum, interview, kathleen barry, language, latin america, manners, martial arts, night, party, physical power, physical threat, porteno, power, provecho, que onda, que pasa, que tal, rape, respect, restaurant, retail, safety, semantics, sex, sexual assault, shag carpet, slang, sociology, spanish, street, syntax, threat, villa, walking alone at night, wealth disparity, weapons, what.
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Global Pedophile Ring Smashed!
Check out the article from the New York Times. The scientific community is not yet sure if pedophilia is pathological, but contemporary Western mores teach us that pedophilia is wrong. Yet there are some cases that are in the gray areas. For example, the Genarlow Wilson case, in which a 17 year old was given [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2007 under Duke, Genarlow Wilson, Iriquois, Mike Nifong, Pornography, abuse, children, consent, cultural criticism, culture, exploitation, federal, fellatio, global, golf, justice, lacrosse, law, molestation, objectification, oral sex, pathology, pedophilia, psychology, rape, sex, sexual assault, sports, violence.
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Who cares if you got raped: stop staring at my dog!
Holy shit, check out this horrific story from Rawstory.com: I don’t know what to say. The horror is heightened by the fact that I know and love Chelsea, VT. Also, to lighten things up: (thanks, Danno!)
Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Vermont, alternative justice system, cartoon, dog, get your war on, jurisprudence, police, rape, sexual assault, shoetying, terrorism, theft, women battering, women's rights.
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Pass the Gender Role, Bro: How We Form and Perpetuate Stereotypes
Thanks to Huehueteotl for this awesome post on intellectual vanities, “Gender Role and How We Gain It.” It packs quite a punch when read alongside CultureKitchen’s “How to Create a Rape Victim“by Nezua Limon Xol. The former deals with the social construction of gender, and the second with the social construction of gender power. This [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2007 under Dick and Jane, FBI, Gay, NOW, National Organization for Women, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Vietnam, Women and Gender Studies, battered women, cartoon, cultural bias, domestic violence, empowerment, family culture, family values, gender, gender bias, graffiti, homelessness, juvenile offenders, lesbian, love, miscarriage, motherhood, murder, parenting, politics, poverty, psychology, rape victim, science and gender, self, self image, sex research, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, social class, sociology, stereotype, stillbirth, suicide, tradition, violence, violence against women, women battering, women's rights.
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