December 2011
20 posts
Oh, Feministe. Or, we like Hugo Schwyzer more than... →
missvoltairine:
galesofnovember:
icewomancometh:
Feministe hosted an interview with a male “feminist” and former sexual predator who’s publicly admitted to making an attempt on his ex-lover’s life (for her own good, apparently). When multiple people point out that he’s not a good dude, Clarisse Thorn decides to close the comments. And instead of apologizing, she chides Feministe’s readership...
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
Oh my god, this. All of this.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
“My fellow queers and assorted allies: we have got to stop using arguments like...”
– Social Justice League - Fauxgress Watch: Born This Way. (via anotherlgbttumblr)
(TW)STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are... →
newwavefeminism:
so-treu:
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New York-based...
“Dying? I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of...”
– Rick Santorum
A student, cited a 2009 Harvard University study, saying he didn’t “think God appreciates the fact that we have 50 to 100,000 uninsured Americans dying due to a lack of healthcare every year. - The Raw Story
(via brooklynmutt)
Wow. Heartless.
-Jess
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When...
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
Yes.
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eilowyn:
Livejournal’s back! Don’t ever leave me again, you naughty thing you!
I keep getting frustrated cause I think I’m missing stuff, but then I realize nobody else can access it either so there is literally nothing going on for me to miss. Then I just sigh and pet my cat while hitting the reload button.
November 2011
124 posts
“The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who...”
– Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (via thecurvature)
Janet D. Stemwedel at Scientific American: Some... →
Here, I see two messages being sent to girls by gendered science kits.
One is that science is not so cool in itself that a girl would appreciate it if it came in a box that wasn’t pink. Instead, science is presented as cool because it can be shown to be compatible with acceptable femininity, crammed into one of the narrow boxes that contain it.
Bath bombs, after all, do not actually explode on...
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) Texas cheerleader kicked... →
So, to recap: a girl was gang-raped by by three assailants at a party attended by dozens of students***, one of whom was a student athlete named Rakheem Bolton. Bolton plead to misdemeanor assault, received two years of probation, community service, a fine, was required to complete anger management classes, after which he was permitted to return to school and continue to play basketball. ...
“If you cheat on your spouse — you are a very bad spouse.
IMO, though I’m...”
– Rapists are not womanizers. Rapists are criminals. | Angry Black Lady Chronicles
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) Village Voice Media: Sex... →
Sex trafficking will probably always exist in some form or another, but Malika Saada Saar, the Rebecca Project’s founder, makes a convincing case that the ease and accessibility of big, well-known websites make it worse. Saada Saar first went after Craigslist after discovering, in her work with girls in the juvenile justice system, that many of them had been bought and sold for sex on the...
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) Internet Posting Helped... →
Curley and Schultz gave different accounts to the grand jury of what transpired in that meeting. Curley said McQueary saw “inappropriate conduct” that he termed “horsing around” between Sandusky and the child, and Schultz said he had “the impression that Sandusky might have inappropriately grabbed the young boy’s genitals while wrestling.”
In either event, no one notified the police. And...
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) Penn State Alum/Leader of... →
On Monday, November 7, I contacted the Penn State Board of Trustees and asked them to expand the focus of their “independent” review to include all forms of violence. On Friday, November 12, the press release on the PSU website from the Board that announced that, “The complete committee membership will be determined and announced in the near future and is expected to be composed of a...
Why Must We Do This? On How Male and Female... →
An article discussing male survivors of childhood sexual abuse covers much useful material and many opinions. Its relevance is obvious in view of the Sandunsky case. But read this section of the piece:
Different experience for boys
Sexual abuse has a different impact on boys than on girls, and they deal with it differently because of socialization, experts say. “Men aren’t supposed to...
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) What The Hell Has Penn... →
This is far beyond the “lack of institutional control” cited by the NCAA when it comes to penalizing athletic programs. Penn State has tacitly engaged in institutional abuse of women and children who came to it because they felt they’d be safe there. If Southern Methodist can lose its’ football program for paying players under the table, then how can Penn State’s possibly be allowed to...
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) What Do Herman Cain and... →
Powell gets at what I’ve been trying to figure out over the past couple of days. When I heard about Herman Cain, I thought of Clarence Thomas and Dominique Strass-Kahn, even though the details of their alleged crimes and misconduct are different in scope and severity.
When the names “Sandusky” and “Paterno” hit the news cycle, I visualized a new Mount Rushmore featuring those two, Eddie...
“The whole point is: it’s just a damned word. A word that is not justification...”
– SlutWalk Makes Major Statement About Sexual Crimes & Attitudes About Female Victims | Angry Black Lady Chronicles
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) On the rape of minors for... →
The Backpage classified section of The Village Voice has long been used to advertise illegal services, whether it be pot sales or prostitution. I am of at least two minds concerning sex work by willing adults, but think it should certainly be decriminalized, possibly even made legal. If a pimp is abusive, he/she should be arrested and charged with assault, and if we started treating...
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) Charles P. Pierce on the... →
If Mike McQueary had seen a child being raped in a boardroom or a storeroom, he wouldn’t have been any more likely to have stopped it, or to have called the cops, than he was as a graduate assistant football coach at Penn State. With unemployment edging toward double digits, and only about 10 percent of the workforce unionized, every American who works for a major company knows the ...
“The crimes at Penn State are about the raping of children. That is all they are...”
– Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland
“There will now be a decade or more of criminal trials, and perhaps a...”
– Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) Jane Leavy on Penn State,... →
It is in the nature of institutions to be conservative in the most old-fashioned sense of the word — acting to conserve a reputation, an infrastructure, a Golden Calf worshipped at the expense of common decency. Thus, settlements in sexual harassment cases are reached with “confidentiality agreements” that shackle the truth. (See the National Restaurant Association.) Thus, the...
Evidence-based trafficking policy?: Sociologist... →
“Eminent scholars such as Carole Vance and Ann Jordan have expressed their puzzlement over the obsession of the U.S. State Department on sex workers as well as their conflation of sex trafficking and prostitution,” says Parreñas. She says that the department’s “over-obsession with finding ‘prostitutes’ who are ‘sex trafficked’” has led them to misidentify migrant Filipina hostesses....
“We like to build our collective selves around images of strength. When that...”
– Joe Paterno and the Nation-State - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Entertainment - The Atlantic