#maleficentmisogyny: revenge porn: The legacy of women as property in rape law
Susan Cox presents an important analysis of the ways in which the law in the US and Canada treats women who are victims of “revenge porn”. Currently, the law holds only the original poster of the...
View Article#todayin: rape culture: #research: Study: one in 10 male college students...
Building upon findings from a previous study which found that 63% of campus rapists were repeat offenders, a new study has found that “only” one-quarter of college men admit to rape more that once....
View Article#womenslives: Many advertisements sexualize violence against women
Images are powerful. Particularly because, as humans, we are not immune to them. Many advertisements sexualize violence against women, this, perhaps, is even more painful as it associates male...
View Article#research: Almost a third of the men (31.7 percent) said that in a...
Almost a third of the men (31.7 percent) said that in a consequence-free situation, they’d force a woman to have sexual intercourse, while 13.6 percent said they would rape a woman. Setting aside the...
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#womenslives: “My one minute rape story.”
My one minute rape story (on @estblshmnt) I was raped again last night. Again. It was a small rape. Un petite râpé (it sounds so much softer, less threatening, in my mangled French). A rape with a...
View Article#womenslives: “We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and...
“We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and assault only happen in violent fits of rage” Every woman has been a little bit raped’: the complicated politics of ‘No’ – Elizabeth...
View Article#womenslives: This woman explained rape anxiety to her favorite men, and they...
They had no idea this feeling was shared, to some degree, with most women (and other marginalized people who are threatened in public spaces). It had never even occurred to my favorite men that many of...
View Article#womenslives: “As strange as it sounds, I didn’t know right away when I was...
#womenslives: As strange as it sounds, I didn’t know right away when I was raped. I knew that I felt sick to my stomach every time I thought about his hands or heard his name, but for weeks I thought...
View Article#guestpost: Discussions we should be having in the wake of the Larry Nassar...
A Michigan Court has now stacked several full lifetimes atop the prison sentence of Larry Nassar. This is a man who, in November 2017, pleaded guilty to three incidences of “criminal sexual conduct”...
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#guestpost: Implications of the Trump administration changing the definition...
Trump’s arrival at the White House did not inspire much hope for women’s rights activists, and unfortunately, his administration has not done much to change that. In one year, he has revoked the 2014...
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