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.
Don’t Read the Comments? Why The Hell Shouldn’t I?
“I see the sense in “Avoid the Comments”, I really do. Who has the mental and emotional capacity to take on the bilious internet herd? The times I have ‘waded in’, I am routinely left with that dead feeling in my stomach that so many women will recognise, of having yet again taken on the … Continue reading
Thoughts on rape culture
Originally posted on Rethink the Rant:
TRIGGER WARNING: The following includes descriptions, photos, and video that may serve as a trigger for victims of sexual violence. Please be advised. Someone asked me today, “What is ‘rape culture’ anyway? I’m tired of hearing about it.” Yeah, I hear ya. I’m tired of talking about it. But…
