Originally posted on Caroline Criado-Perez:
TW for victim-blaming, sexism and racism – many direct quotations included. Don’t feed the trolls If you react in any way other than with silence to people threatening you, you deserve the threats. It is really very simple. Shut up and be a good girl. Don’t be silent If someone…
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Taking Statutory Rape Seriously
Imagine the following rape statute: “If a person over the age of twenty-one years has sexual contact constituting oral-genital or genital-genital contact with a minor under the age or fourteen years, such person shall be guilty of a Class A felony and shall be imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole.” If the legislature…
11 Things You Should Stop Saying To Introverts
Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced
“When you approach me in public, you are Schrödinger’s Rapist. You may or may not be a man who would commit rape. I won’t know for sure unless you start sexually assaulting me. I can’t see inside your head, and I don’t know your intentions. If you expect me to trust you—to accept you at … Continue reading
My 3 C’s of Sexual Communication
I’ve been reading up on sexuality a lot recently. Currently I’m reading The Ethical Slut (which I really like by the way) and the authors talk a lot about communication as part of living a pleasure-filled life. So I started thinking about communication and I came up with 3 C’s that I would want any … Continue reading
Does your mother build you up, or tear you down?
Am I the only one who has a Negative Nancy for a mother? I’m tired of feeling depressed and beat down whenever I finish talking to my mother. People always seem shocked when I say that I don’t miss my mother and I only talk to her once a week or every two. But every … Continue reading
Woman stabbed, beaten in head with hammer : Kaieteur News
Woman stabbed, beaten in head with hammer : Kaieteur News. Why are these stories so common in the Caribbean? Is there something in our culture that makes it seem easy for men to attack, disfigure and murder women for real or perceived insults? I’m not saying that this is a phenomenon that is limited to … Continue reading
