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…
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India’s #Football Champs: The Real ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ #Girls!
Originally posted on THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN BLOG ON INDIA'S FEMALE GENDERCIDE:
uly 13, 2013, as most of India slept, eighteen girls from Jharkhand were ecstatically screaming ‘Vande Mataram’ as they lifted the trophy for being placed third in the prestigious Gasteiz Cup in Spain! Representing the Yuwa India under-14 all-girls’ team, this was…
UPDATE: “Is it still rape if you kill her first?” – Pub Quiz question from Radio bar, Glasgow.
Originally posted on What's left of the Left?:
In response to this http://whatsleftoftheleft.com/2013/07/30/is-it-still-rape-if-you-kill-her-first-pub-quiz-question-from-radio-bar-glasgow/ and the comments people have been leaving on the Radio-Nude bar Facebook page and Twitter, below is a statement from G1 group I have recently received and my response. Thank you everyone for your support on this. Dear Matthew, In reference to…
“Is it still rape if you kill her first?” – Pub Quiz question from Radio bar, Glasgow
Originally posted on What's left of the Left?:
Please circulate/re-blog/tell others/tweet etc. Last night myself and four others went to a bar called Radio in Ashton Lane, Glasgow for the pub quiz. It was a horrific experience. The quiz comprised sexist, misogynistic, and homophobic comments and questions, and most frightening of all, encouragement…
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
Prey/Pray- or- another one for the ‘almost rape’ aka ‘life as a woman’ files..
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Guest post by Sherlina Nageer of Red Thread, Guyana This is how it happensThis is how it happens8:30pmA woman is walking home aloneNevermind what she’s wearingThere is no one else on the roadSome streetlights, but not the whole wayA car rolls up slowly behind herYoung man at…
Is it A Crime to Menstruate? | THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN BLOG ON INDIA’S FEMALE GENDERCIDE
Is it A Crime to Menstruate? | THE 50 MILLION MISSING CAMPAIGN BLOG ON INDIA’S FEMALE GENDERCIDE.
Incomplete thoughts on consent
“But consent is not a magic wand for eternal hotness, no matter how dreamy clear communication is. Consent is not always sexy. Sometimes asking for what you want sucks. Sometimes it hurts, sometimes you feel nauseous, sometimes you need to take big risks to ask for what you want. Sometimes you ask for something that … Continue reading
OpinionatedPlanet – A rambling post about online abuse, misogyny, rape & football.
“Now, I’m a feminist. One of the extreme ones that demands an end to violence against women and girls, but I’m reasonably kind, and try my best not to be hurtful to other women. After all, women do what they have to do, in order to survive under patriarchy. So I go easy on them. … Continue reading
Commentary on Petchary’s blog, December 2012
Originally posted on Petchary's Blog:
Who feels it, knows it. Although the Sixteen Days of Activism following the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women officially ended yesterday (Human Rights Day), I had to write this postscript to Jamaica’s official recognition of that day – a carefully structured but ultimately dissatisfying exercise.…
