Tag: rape
On Freedom Fries, Strauss-Kahn and “French Standards”
France has long been aligned with romance in the American imagination, but recent events have got me going all Public Enemy on that ish: Don’t Believe the Hype. It all centers on the discussions of the behavior of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund currently sitting in Riker’s Island without bail awaiting [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Tags: abc, affairs, anglo-saxon culture, crime, dominique, don't believe the hype, equity, france, french standards, gender, germany, imf, international monetary fund, obesity, public enemy, rape, rape culture, riker's island, sarkozy, seduction, sexual assault, strauss-kahn, womanising, womanizing, women's rights
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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!
Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under agency, gender, gender culture, hostile environment, politics, rape, social class, socialization, society, socioeconomics.
Tags: abortion, bill, burt stupak, child care, christian right, conception, contraception, crime, Declaration of Independence, federal subsidies, fetus, fetuses, gender, gender power, happiness, harassment, health care, hostile environment, HR 3962, incest, injustice, justice, liberty, miscarriages, national right to life committee, nutrition, power, pregnancy, pro life, rape, reform, right to life, sex, sex education, sexual assault, sexual partner, smoking, social class, social power, socioeconomic class, state, std, stereotype, stereotype threat, title IX, wage inequality, welfare
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What If We Treated Rape Like H1N1?
What if we treated rape like an actual public health crisis? Meg Stone goes into it over at Bitch. Hat tip to the ever-rad Kaveri for the link.
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under rape, rape culture.
Tags: bitch, crisis, h1h1, public health, rape, rape culture, swine flu, virus
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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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In Which We Change It Up: Movements for Social Change
On Fighting Corporate Mind Control: Yes, the Yes Men are awesome. Yes, they are fixing the world, or at least promoting a movie about it. They’re committed to demonstrating that corporations’ dignity is not as important as human dignity. So is Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping, who are concerned with helping [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2009 under capitalism, change, church, collective, corporate greed, porn, sex, sex positivity, sex work, sexual objectification, sexual violence, sexuality.
Tags: 12-step, bloomberg, boston review, camille, david rieff, degrees, emotion, evangelism, feminists, fixing the world, green party, heinberg, holocuast, human dignity, inner child, john, katie, legalize, letters, mary gaitskill, mayor, metaphor, movie, murder, New York, NYC, objectification, paglia, pain, peak coal, peak oil, political theater, politics, porn, Pornography, post carbon, prostitute, prostitution, rape, rape-crisis, reverend billy, rigor, roiphe, self help, sex, sex industry, sex work, subjectivity, suffering, susannah breslin, the church of life after shopping, victim, victimization, violence against women, violent porn, whoopi goldberg, yes men
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Newsflash: Women's Shoes Hurt, Sex feels Good, Rape is the Fault of Rapists
Sometimes, the News Media has all the answers. The New York Times reports that a recent study shows that women’s shoes hurt their feet. Women mostly have sex because “it feels good,” according to a new study reviewed on Salon.com by Tracy Clark-Flory. Also, the only sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work are those [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under rape, rapist, sex, shoes.
Tags: awareness, college, education, men, New York Times, newsflash, rape, sex, sexual assault, shoes
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What is a Trigger Warning?
Trigger warning: This post contains references to rape. Anyone who reads feminist blogs has come across “trigger warnings” before graphic images or descriptions of rape or violence to women. The intent of a trigger warning is to advertise the potentially emotionally triggering content of a piece, which might revive memories of rape or sexual assault [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under rape, rape culture, triggering.
Tags: feminism, harassment, hostility, nirvana, patsy t. mink, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, rape, sarah haskins, sexual, sexual assault, title nine, trauma, trigger, u.s. military, warning
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