Let us establish something right here, right now and forever. Whenever a women says in public they’ve been raped they are taking a huge chance. The patriarchal fuckwittery that surrounds women speaking up against those that have violated them is sickening. It is not her fault for what happened
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Dead Wild Roses: Christianity Supporting Rape and Slavery – Doug Wilson.
Thank you to Slender Means for posting this, everything below this disclaimer is hers: This is a very long post (linked below) but it is worth reading to see what some Christians still want to teach and believe about gender roles and norms, men’s rights to women’s bodies, and women
Continue readingHey Tea Party, STOP RAPING PEOPLE! Behave yourselves!
Tea Party leader and former regional director of the Southern California Conservative Party has been arrested for kidnapping and rape. Sorry, I just had to get my morning BREITBART on. X-posted at Let Freedom Rain. UPDATE: Judging from Memeorandum, this news has barely dented the wingnutosphere, not to mention prog blogs. Imagine if
Continue readingHey Tea Party, STOP RAPING PEOPLE! Behave yourselves!
Tea Party leader and former regional director of the Southern California Conservative Party has been arrested for kidnapping and rape. Sorry, I just had to get my morning BREITBART on. X-posted at Sister Sage’s Musings. UPDATE: Judging from Memeorandum, this news has barely dented the wingnutosphere, not to mention prog
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Undermining Solidarity in the Balkans: Reviewing Boris Malagursky’s “The Weight of Chains”
Reviewed by Konstantin Kilibarda Independent Vancouver-based filmmaker Boris Malagursky’s The Weight of Chains is the latest in a long line of misguided attempts to give an ‘alternative’ account to the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. This review seeks to directly address some of the more flawed accounts
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: FOX News Mouthpiece Dismisses Rape in US Military
This FOX News correspondent has a message to US women soldiers who fall victim to rape – enough already. And, of course, she kept her job at FOX.
Continue readingRegan Wolfrom: SlutWalk Puts Shame on Display in Winnipeg
I am truly saddened by the ignorance on display in Winnipeg this past weekend. As part of the Winnipeg SlutWalk, a large group of women, men, and children — many of whom decided to make up some signs or get some from those people who printed my business cards —
Continue readingA useful rape analogy
From the estimable Where I Wander blog:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape in the Bible – An easy guide.
Ah, the moral paragon that the bible claims to be, yet not one Commandment such as “thou shall not rape”… Pretty easy for an all knowing, all powerful being to foresee no? Apparently not.
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Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: SlutWalk and Sluts
The fact that SlutWalk has rapidly ballooned into a multinational protest movement from an ill-spoken comment by a Toronto policeman represents a distinct and poignant feeling latent in our societies. Namely, the idea that provocative dressing or actio…
Continue readingBirth Pangs: No Means …Um … Well.. it depends..
No means no.. at least unless you are drugged or a young girl who is the victim of incest or otherwise failed to have a Rethuglican actually witness your rape. – Redefinition Of Rape: The bill sponsor Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) faced serious backlash after he tried to narrow the definition rape to “forcible rape.” […]
Continue readingBirth Pangs: International Women’s Day 2011
It would be nice if this could be a day of celebration, however it feels more appropriate for it to be a day of remembrance for all the women who have fallen or who have been unnecessarily burdened under oppressive regimes. In the U.S. women are losing their rights to reproductive choice with restrictions on […]
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: When Facebook becomes Hatebook
I was a reluctant FB joiner at first. I have known it to cause weird, unintended social faux-pas between people innocently updating their friends’ pages with manoevres that turn into clumsy – and very public – rebukes. Plus, the site owners surely love…
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