Rape
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 “busted lip” that had to be [...]
MRAs, rape deniers, and shitty book deals: British feminists have as much fun as we do!
Thanks to the latest and thoroughly excellent Carnival Against Sexual Violence, I’ve discovered PC Bloggs, a policewoman in the U.K. who blogs about police crap. (Police crap: It’s a technical term, folks. Work with me.) PC has two posts in the carnival, and the first one is a doozy. In Look how EQUAL we are, [...]
It’s not about legalizing rape so much as declaring it a metaphysical impossibility
This woman-shaped piece of meat has made the crucial mistake of reporting her rape. She will be punished. Here’s an interesting change. After all these stories of women being prosecuted or threatened with legal action for pressing rape charges, today we have a story of a woman being prosecuted for not pressing rape charges. You [...]
Progress continues on the march to legalize rape
Fuck it. Just fuck it. Every time I crawl reluctantly back from one of my cave retreats and decide to check the news, hoping to see maybe something good in the world, maybe a picture of a fucking flower or something, I get gobsmacked. Top story today: Duke terrorists are now actually being rewarded with [...]
Humor is no longer possible
On good days, when I’m not feeling too depressed, I dash off the occasional post that attempts to deliver the Fuck-You-Patriarchy message (or Fuck-You-World message) in a quirky, even humorous kind of way. Then I read things like this and the possibility of humor or quirkiness or really anything besides a loaded shotgun seems unthinkable. [...]
A World of Twits
UPDATE: I wrote this post before seeing the “Update” to Jill’s, in which she reported the comments the AutoAdmit trolls made about her on their own board: “I want to brutally rape that Jill slut,” “I’m 98% sure that she should be raped (even if only in Internet Land),” “So seriously, I think we should [...]
Speaking of Cops, Strippers, and Defense Attorneys
Read this. ***** Via Twisty.
The Swift-Boating of Amanda, and the Duke First-Degree Sexual Assault (which includes raping someone with a broomstick) Case
UPDATE 2/8/07 at 12:18 pm EST: Amanda and Melissa have not been fired! ***** Remember a few days ago when I mentioned that Amanda was going to work for the John Edwards campaign? Well, in the interim the wingnut noise machine has launched an all-out attack on Ms. Pandagon, which would be funny if people [...]
Because it bears repeating
“The Rape of Mr. Smith” was posted in the comments at Feministe by Tyra and elevated to a blog post by Jill. It’s been floating around so long that people attribute it to Anonymous, but in fact it’s from Connie Borkenhagen, who published it in the American Bar Association Journal in 1975. The Rape of [...]
Today’s lesson
A 17-year-old Hispanic boy was allegedly attacked, sodomized with a pole, and burned with cigarettes by a couple of skinhead freaks in Houston. The two skinheads, who are charged with aggravated sexual assault, encountered the victim at a party. Interestingly, no one so far has suggested that the alleged victim may have actually agreed to [...]
