Archive for 'sexual harassment'
Where Are My Spectacles II: Who Defends Women in the Dept. of Defense?
[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst its contractors on October 6th, a block of thirty white men rose up in opposition. [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under government, labor, law, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, social class, social inequality, socioeconomics, work, working conditions.
Tags: Acorn, al franken, amendment, class, class warfare, college, department of defense, education, equality, fair trial, gang rape, government, Halliburton, human dignity, human rights, Jamie Leigh Jones, jon stewart, labor, law, legal rights, legislation, military, partisan, patsy t. mink, politics, rape, republican, rights, senate, senators, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, sexual respect, social class, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, The Crooked Dope, the law, title 9, title IX, title nine, unions, universities, work, workers' rights, working conditions
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Jane Doe Wants YOU to Join the Fight Against Rape Culture
In the past, women who experienced rape or sexual assault were faced with the immediate decision of whether or not to prosecute, even as they still reeled from the trauma of violation, which is often manifested as post-traumatic stress disorder. This was necessary because any action such a woman took following her rape, such as [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under agency, military, police report, popular culture, posttraumatic stress disorder, prosecution, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, sense of self, sexual abuse, sexual advance, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, sexual objectification, sexual violence.
Tags: administration, agency, Bush, culture, DNA, domestic violence, evidence, harassment, injustice, military, patriarchy, pentagon, posttraumatic stress disorder, prosecution, rape, rape culture, rape kit, sexual, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, survivor, trial, u.s., victim
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Red Eye, and !Ojo para viajeros: la red del disastre!
I was on the red eye to La Paz, Bolivia last night. Perhaps everything was going too well: the previous flight had had free refills and personal tv sets for each passenger and offered me both Before Sunset and I Heart Huckabees in addition to an episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa switch [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Bart Simpson, Before Sunset, Bolivia, Canadian, Cuzco, I Heart Huckabees, La Paz, Lima, Lisa Simpson, Peru, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, TV, Viru Viru, airlines, catholic, economics, free, gender, goody two shoes, horror movie, latino, law, peruvian, professional, punishable offense, race, red eye, refills, risk analyst, sexual harassment, television, the Simpsons, troublemaker, turbulence.
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On Sppeling, Philosophy of Language & Parrots
Right, so first the spelling thing and then on to the long awaited polyamory discussion. I have no idea why I’m not asleep right now, but I’m sure I’ll get to that eventually. I’ve never really seen the need to respell words – ie wimmin, womyn etc. – to exclude men and man from them. [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under American, Unapologetically Female, attraction, awkward, bilingual, cathartic, cheating, cigarette, cousin, cynicism, diction, emotional attachment, emotions, encyclopedia, english, feelings, female, feminism, feminist, feminist philosophers, force, foreplay, gender, gender neutrality, grammar, hand, invisibility, language, law, legal definition, linguistics, los abandonados, love, male, male gaze, male perspective, male worldview, man, mascot, masturbation, mixtape, orgasm, parrot, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy of language, polyamory, primate, psycholinguistics, rape, relationships, school, semantics, sex, sexual activity, sexual harassment, sexual partner, sexual relations, spanish, spelling, stanford, the invisible woman, wimmin, womyn, words.
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Reserved to be Judged by God: Prostitution in Argentina
Last night, over wine ($3.50 a bottle) at a fancy club where most people were in awe of a celebrity named Gisela something who none of my compatriots recognized, someone I had just met told me the story of being pressured to join a prostitution ring. It was a long story, but it can be [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under AMMAR, American, Argentina, Argentine, Argentine constitution, Bolivian, Buenos Aires, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Europe, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Female Sexuality, Gisela, God, Mercy Plaza, Mujeres Creando, Ninguna mujer nace para puta, Once, Once Plaza, Plaza de la Merced, Plaza de la Puta, United States, VIP, activism, activist, arrest, awareness, breasts, brothel, cab, cabron, celebrity, club, condom, constitution, crime, curse, danger, english, fashion, feminism, feminist, fine, fur coats, garter belts, hijueputa, insult, jail, judge, law, marriage, national campaign, pedophile, police, prostitute, prostitution, prostitution ring, punk, retro-punk, scam, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual violence, spanish, swear, taxi, the state, tourism, tourists, vandalism, whore, wine.
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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The Jessica Valenti Rapport
So last night, the guest on the Colbert Report was none other than Feministing.com‘s executive editor, Jessica Valenti, talking about her new book, Full Frontal Feminism. Read the rest of this entry for video of Jessica on Colbert. Sorry so grainy.
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under Colbert Report, Female Sexuality, Gloria Steinham, Jane Fonda, Jessica Valenti, Mardi Gras, Misogyny, Pornography, Stephen Colbert, Women and Gender Studies, birth control, femininity, feminism, gender, gender bias, mental health, objectification, rape, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, shemale, standard of beauty, violence against women, women's rights.
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