Rape
Gang rape as entertainment
The stories about the Richmond gang rape are starting to piss me off. “How could it have happened?” people say. “What could have possessed those young men to behave like that?”
WE LIVE IN A FUCKING PATRIARCHY, I yell at my computer screen in all-caps. WE LIVE IN A GODDAMN WOMAN-HATING [...]
Why isn’t the Richmond gang rape being treated as a hate crime?
That’s a rhetorical question, of course. If you read my post yesterday about hate crimes (or even if you didn’t), you know why.
But the Richmond case provides an unusually clear-cut example of how violence against women, just because they’re women (as opposed to black/immigrant/Jewish/gay women), is considered normal. Why? Because [...]
Gang rape victim brings it on herself
Onlookers laugh during teen girl’s gang rape, reports the San Jose Mercury News. I’m just going to fair-use the gist of the article here:
Onlookers laughed, took pictures and even joined in Saturday night during the two-hour gang rape of a semiconscious 15-year-old outside her homecoming dance at Richmond High, police said Monday.
… “She was [...]
Sign this petition
Feminists all over the world need to be pressuring governments to define rape as torture and persecution. Please sign this U.K. petition, and then post or email the link to help spread the word:
To: UK Government
Asylum from Rape Petition
Women and children are 80% of refugees and displaced people worldwide. International courts have recognized [...]
An open letter to Feministing
I tried to post a comment at Feministing but, as usual, was bitterly rebuffed by Typekey, which thinks I’m a Soviet spy. So here’s the question I want to ask about this post:
What is the empirical foundation for the claim that “creating a culture which values genuine female sexual pleasure can help [...]
The New York Times thinks rape is “salacious”
From the story about Huckabee’s parole of rapist Wayne DuMond:
It has all the markings of salacious, tabloidian detail that can haunt a candidate, a lawmaker, an elected official, who walks and stalks the halls of criminal justice, who has, as he has said, weighed decisions on whether to impose capital punishment, and has ordered death. [...]
Rape = “theft of services”
I saw this in the news a few days ago, but didn’t post on it because it upset me too much. It upset me so much, in fact, that I had to spend two hours googling dolphin pictures in order to calm down.
But Shakespeare’s Sister is a better woman than I, and [...]
The Essence of War
I’ve written before about how the rape of women is an indissoluble part of war, but Professor Shortell makes the same point in about one-twentieth of the space. He quotes from this article in the New York Times about the war in Congo:
Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been [...]
He couldn’t be bothered with a single mention of all the raped and enslaved women?
I haven’t been watching the Ken Burns documentary “The War,” but this post over at Heart’s got my attention:
Where in the name of all that is holy are the comfort women?
And it’s not just the “comfort” women; it’s all the enslaved and prostituted and raped women in that global apocalypse, that furnace of souls. [...]
Does this sound like a suicide to you?
LaVena Johnson, Private First Class, died near Balad, Iraq, on July 19, 2005. She was 19 years old.
According to the Army, her death was a suicide, the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Uh huh.
Here’s the evidence in the case:
* Two loose front teeth and a [...]
