I think people are allowed to no have empathy for people who abuse underage family members.
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I don't like her either, but is an article about how she was raped really the place to mention it? If you want to make a point about her own potential assault of her sister, fine, but general dislike of her and comments about her race issues (even if that WAS) a real tweet is pretty damn insensitive. People we don't…
I'm sure his next show will be about a brave, intelligent tv and film writer who attempts to nobly tell it like it is with his scripts while being beset on all sides by shrewish, ungrateful women, one of whom is named "Schmalena Schmith."
ETA: He can call the show "Penis Mightier Than the Sword."
I have never gotten the love for Sorkin and his smug, preachy writing. He's basically an MRA posing as a neo-liberal whose head hasn't left the warm safety of his own ass in a decade.
The new judging system bothers me too. I know it started because so many people thought the show was rigged and that Tyra basically chose her favorite. Frankly I think the new scoring system is just as rigged. Tyra gives get judge score last and often purposely gives a super high or low score to balance out the other…
"These are not anomalies or bad apples: numerous studies have found that men who join fraternities are three times more likely to rape, that women in sororities are 74% more likely to experience rape than other college women, and that one in five women will be sexually assaulted in four years away at school."
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Frats at many universities receive nuanced education about consent and sexual assault all the time, including at my Alma mater. But rape keeps happening. Time to start sanctioning instead of merely educating. The only thing that will deter frat guys is the knowledge that their awesome party will create so much…
Remember after the banking crisis when we had that wave of bankers complaining in the media about how mean people were being about them? Totally missing the point that this isn't about a personal attack on you, but a public debate on what is potentially a culture of wrongdoing. The more we allow institutions to…
What's been really troubling to me about this story, and what I would dearly love to see become more a part of the conversation when it comes to rape, is how subjective "truth" can be. I've told this story a couple times here, but when I was 16, I was raped by a much older man from my karate class - a true predator…
the most angering part of this is someone giving up Jackie's information. Because let's harass people! That'll fix it! And what if that picture and information isn't Jackie? Let's just go on a witch hunt for the girl who spreads alleged lies and slander against Greek life!
One more thing, how come the WP can change their narrative after the fact. All of a sudden the accused did know Jackie? Huh. A slip like this by the victim makes her completely unbelievable to many, a slip like this by the accused is just ignored.
I mean... it bothers me that in this new Exodus movie there are a shit load of white people in what is supposed to be biblical Egypt. And that shit happens all the time but no one gives a hoot until it's non-white person playing someone who is quite often racially unspecified *cough Santa*
This is all the women's fault. They should have known better than to be women in the first place. If you don't want someone to take pictures of you naked and distribute them, you should have gotten one X and one Y chromosome at fertilization!
Yeah, "AOW" just came out on Kindle, and the author points out that "no more than the NAACP tabulated reports and found that no more than fifth of lynchings were for what was called——get this——"the one crime." Books written by Southern women were NOT about fear of rape.....but white MEN were fairly obsessed with…
YES. I'm an abuse survivor, and my abuser was my mom. I'm also queer. When you're talking about stopping cycles of abuse, particularly within queer narratives and communities, you CANNOT put the onus on the victims to take care of their abusers' feelings. And when you're talking about abusive social roles, you need to…
Did this girl accuse you of anything? No? Then you have no constitutional right to face her. Therefore her name is not important to you and she should be given anonymity.
Awfully presumptuous to assume I don't do that, isn't it? You don't get to talk about "most feminism" like it's a monolith and then advocate that it is feminists who aren't doing the listening. The vast, vast majority of work I do as well as the scholars I associate with is geared towards a better understanding of how…
I have thought long and hard about this piece. The author's story is powerful. I agree fully with everything the author says about the terrible damage we do to children by enforcing the gender binary, I agree with everything they say about how the kind of conventional masculinity that our society demands of men is…