Penn State and Why I Hate Football Culture.
So, there was this thing. An assistant coach at Penn State raped several little boys over the past couple of decades. At least one person walked in on him raping … Continue reading
This is Why Women Are Afraid to Tell You No
This past Thursday, a group of men started cat-calling/hitting on a group of women in Chicago. When the women said, no, the men threw bottles and then SHOT at their … Continue reading
If You Think Abortion is Worse Than Letting a Woman Die, You Are Not a Good Person
So, last Thursday the House of Representatives Voted to approve House Bill H.R 358, the “Let Women Die” bill. This will basically allow hospitals and doctors to refuse abortions to … Continue reading
Re-Post from CANOW – Schrodinger’s Rapist and Why it doesn’t say what you thought it did
This appears to have been removed from the CA NOW blog, so I thought I’d re-post it here. Over at Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose, guest blogger Phaedra Starling wrote … Continue reading
New Lows in Victim-Blaming
So, yeah, a cop pulls over a woman in the wee hours of the morning, gets an erection and ejaculates all over her. She filed a report, had the DNA … Continue reading
More on Sugar Ray and Victim-blaming
So, at the end of Monday’s post on Sugar Ray Leonard, I linked to two articles. One of those articles engages in the time honored tradition of assuming that the … Continue reading
Sexual Abuse is Not Just a Women’s Issue
In his upcoming book, champion boxer Sugar Ray Leonard talks about his sexual abuse at the hands of a boxing coach. This, if nothing else, should dispel the myth that … Continue reading
Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Get Any Less Compassionate…
It’s getting hard to come up with titles for these posts that aren’t just a random bunch of characters as I bang my head repeatedly on the keyboard, longing for … Continue reading
Enough with the Hating on Slutwalk
If it doesn’t work for you, fine. If you think the only reason ANY WOMAN gets called a slut, regardless of race or social standing, is because she has done something … Continue reading
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