Hey!!! I’ve been good! It’s really slow at work this month, so... How are you? It’s been awhile.

Slate had an article on what we know about sexual predators. It was good! But other than that... drawing a blank...

I feel like the current editorial staff has lost its bite. Maybe that’s because of the larger shift from Gawker to Gizmodo. And honestly, it’s hard for me to say that if, say, Jessica Coen was still in charge, they’d have a bunch of bloggers who wanted to be investigative journalists reaching out to experts to get…

This is perhaps more meta, but: I think this moment is exactly why I’ve found the focus on how female celebrities need to be feminists and then become feminist leaders to be a poor strategy. They aren’t using this moment to elevate experts in the field of fighting sexual violence, to say “based on the research, here’s…

By having other employers refuse to hire him. Matt Lauer might take a job as a short order cook if it was his only possible source of income.

Rehabilitation for sexual predators of a certain age does not really have great results.........

Perhaps, yeah. What are the other options? Spending life in prison, death penalty, homelessness (where they can attack homeless women), and not really suffering at all in their professional life? I suppose you could make an argument for them to live off of welfare, but that seems a tough sell in a society that is…

I think their charity is great, and am thrilled they started it. But this panel was a missed opportunity. Oprah could have talked with a bunch of experts, gotten the soundbites she wanted, and moved the conversation forward. Instead she talked to a bunch of famous women who mean very well, but know nothing about the…

She did try to leave. He wouldn’t let her.

I am shocked that a group of actresses with no background in anti-violence activism failed to produce a quality strategic plan for what should happen next. /s

That’s unlikely to happen. But there is a lot of evidence that drug users being able to report a dealer or someone they were getting high with for sexually assaulting them without getting in trouble for getting high would go a long way towards helping reporting rates.

The biggest contributors for absolutely any non-profit is people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s; they’re empty nesters at the peak of their careers, so they’re the only ones who really have gobs and gobs of money to spend philanthropically.

Yeah, Betty Friedan was shitty to lesbians, because she was very focused on getting men to take NOW seriously and didn’t want them to dismiss the organization and women’s lib as man-hating. But so were radicals. A lot of straight radicals would accuse lesbians of being “male-identified” (in today’s parlance, “having…

... Where would you put Betty Friedan in all of this? Because I’ve never heard of her as anything other than a liberal, second-wave feminist. It’s not like the second wave was nothing but fully-woke radicals.

One could even argue that the reason #MeToo gained so much traction in a way that #YesAllWomen did not was because it shifted the focus away from demographic identification and towards experiences regardless of demographics.

From an academic POV:
The first wave was suffragettes, focused on obtaining basic civil rights such as the vote and right to own land. There were also the New Women/flappers, who loved to drink and smoke and wear provocative clothing and makeup and get abortions and birth control and honestly have quite a lot in…

You should report your counselor for that to their operations manager, which their website says is Catherine DuBois (catherined@rainn.org). That’s definitely against their policies and someone in charge should know about it so that they can make sure they don’t tell any other survivors something that fucked up. I’m so…

Sure, but I think designing political strategies around only things that won’t turn on sexual predators is just giving them more power.

Before Roe v. Wade, the number of women who died or lost their ability to reproduce after having back-alley and coat-hanger abortions were the primary argument of the pro-choice movement. Not “women have a right to bodily autonomy”, but “women will die if abortion is illegal; here’s a graphic picture of a naked woman…

What would impress you?