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[link] It’s time to concentrate our anger on a culture that turns men into...
From commentisfree: Never has there been such attention focused on rape and sexual violence. Over the past year, mainstream and social media have been riveted by one case after another. Yet even as...
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[link] After Being Raped, I Was Wounded – My Honor Wasn’t [TW]
Very powerful read. Huge trigger warning. From the nytimes: THIRTY-TWO years ago, when I was 17 and living in Bombay, I was gang raped and nearly killed. Three years later, outraged at the silence and...
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[link] Purity Culture Is Rape Culture
AP Photo/ Dar Yasin. Indian women offer prayers for a gang rape victim at Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi. There is so much in this piece that clarifies rape culture (in India and elsewhere) and...
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[link] Indian men wear skirts to halt violence against women
An Indian demonstrator holds a placard during the one-month anniversary of the gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi on January 16, 2013. (Getty Images) I linked to a piece recently about the...
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[link] Gang Rapes and Beatings, Brothels Filled with Teenage Prostitutes. The...
The following is an excerpt from Nick Turse’s new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (Metropolitan Books, 2013). In 1971, Major Gordon Livingston, a West Point graduate...
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[link] Women in a war zone: combating the military’s epidemic of sexual violence
From commentisfree: The announcement that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will formally lift the ban on women serving in ground combat units is the logical culmination to a decade of war in which...
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[link] Joanna Lumley was foolish for laying rape at drunken feet (and I felt...
I wasn’t even going to link to the Joanna Lumley piece that appeared in the Telegraph this week. I have never passed a huge amount of remarks on Lumley but I’ve had a hearty respect for her from a...
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[link] Uni Lad’s shocking sexism is not just teenage, it’s stone age
From commentisfree: This online magazine’s ‘laddish’ misogyny sends a message to young girls that their role is clearly delineated – you’re worthless. [...] Whether or not Uni Lad represents an “entire...
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[link] For Egypt’s women, silence on sexual harassment is unacceptable [TW]
[Trigger warning for content on rape.] The women carried knives, “for self defence,” a protester told news agency Youm7. A similar march against sexual harassment held in June last year, was attacked...
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[link] It’s not just the Met police that is failing women…
From liberalconspiracy: I don’t know how much national press coverage this story will get but the Birmingham Mail is reporting another sorry case of a Police officer falling down on the job: A “rogue”...
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[quote] Living while female is the worst crime of all
Very honest. “ I have never raped anyone or physically assaulted a woman, but I have committed violence against pretty much every woman I’ve been close to. I have fed my anger and allowed it to fill...
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[link] What is One Billion Rising? Founder Eve Ensler explains
This February 14 2013, V-Day will be 15 years old. It was never our intention to be around that long. Our mission was to end violence against women and girls, and so we planned to be out of business...
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[link] Join the One Billion Rising campaign to end violence against women
It’s not very British is it, asking people to get up and dance? And not just for a bop either, but as part of a mass protest movement organised for next Valentine’s Day. But the cause couldn’t be any...
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[link] What makes One Billion Rising’s invitation to dance a radical move
One of my favorite feminist quotations – “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution” – is widely (and probably wrongly) attributed to feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman. Accurate...
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[image] The Sun, misogyny, and why I feel like we’re fighting a losing battle
Why DO we bother? Yesterday, we had 1 Billion Rising, every day the No More Page 3 campaign picks up pace, and today, we have this. The Sun, though a despicable publication, does not exist in a vacuum...
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[link] Rape suspects ‘should not be named’
Why are we going back to this again? According to McGowan (below) those accused of rape or other sexual offences should not be named until they have been convicted. We all know what this is about: it’s...
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[link] Early day motion 105 – anonymity for defendants in rape cases
By the way, here is why this motion was withdrawn when it was tabled in 2010. Early day motion 105 – ANONYMITY FOR DEFENDANTS IN RAPE CASES That this House believes that the Government’s proposal to...
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[quote] South Africa’s macho society, where attacks on women are the norm
“ Black South African men are expected to prove their manliness by carrying knives and having lots of girlfriends,” said Rachel Jewkes of the South African Medical Research Council. “White Afrikaners...
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[link] To Be Somebody (child exploitation)
[TRIGGER WARNING] I just wanted to be noticed and he saw me. I wanted to feel like someone actually cared, and he made me feel special. I wanted to feel worthy of gifts for once, and he showered me. I...
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[link] To be the victim of rape shouldn’t have to be a life sentence
From the telegraph: Let me start with a trio of quotes from three famous feminists on the subject of rape. They are not easy quotes, and these women were all roundly attacked, mainly by other women,...
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