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It’s not “sex”, it’s rape: teen girls and “unwanted sex”

By Lauredhel on October 15, 2009

In today’s “It’s Not Sex, It’s Rape” files I present Melanie Christiansen’s article in the Courier Mail, “Unwanted teen sex tied to binge drinking“. AN explosion in binge drinking among high school girls is driving an increase in unwanted teen sex, a nationwide survey, which will be outlined in Brisbane today, says. [...] “It is [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, violence | Tagged alcohol, family planning, queensland, rape, rape culture, research, sex, sex ed, sexual assault, sexual violence | 6 Responses

Vag perfume – so you don’t have to fuck drunk anymore!

By Lauredhel on September 29, 2009

The news is all over new “research” purporting to show that women lurrrrve to fuck drunk. Well, no, not quite. The research puports to show that women get drunk before sex because they “lack confidence in their bodies”: Almost half of those questioned said they preferred sex while under the influence of alcohol because it [...]

Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged alcohol, rape, sex | 9 Responses

We are dying

By Lauredhel on August 11, 2009

We are dying, and apparently it’s our own damn fault. As pointed to by Deborah in the latest Otterday thread, scooter users in Australia are dying. We are dying because footpaths obstructed by cars and tree prunings and rubbish force us onto the road. We are dying because there are no footpaths. We are dying [...]

Posted in ethics & philosophy, social justice | Tagged accessibility, alcohol, bigotry, death, disability, disabled, education, inaccessibility, open thread, scooter, social change, wheelchair | 11 Responses

Fat acceptance and Oppression Olympics fail on The Gruen Transfer

By Lauredhel on May 14, 2009

Via the Sarahs at Saucy Sisters, some massive adfail on ABC show The Gruen Transfer. TGT was going to look at a “fat pride” advertisement that combines the Oppression Olympics and -ist-humour tropes tonight. The show, which played the Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) Wedding Speech child-rape-jokes ad in the past, usually bills itself as [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, social justice | Tagged abortion, advertising, alcohol, anti-racism, australia, bigotry, consumerism, discrimination, fat acceptance, homophobia, moral panics, obesity, race & racism, size acceptance, social change | 26 Responses

Rape myths, rape myth acceptance, and community perceptions of victims of sexual violence

By tigtog on March 12, 2009

Elsewhere, grave doubt was expressed that attitudes of holding women responsible for sexual violence directed towards them was in fact a popular community view, to the extent that a position paper from an academic conference was mercilessly mocked for this sentence:

Women who are raped or who suffer domestic violence are somehow thought of in the popular imagination as a stereotype. According to this, the women are asking for it, dressed inappropriately, provoking it – responsible for it.

Posted in gender & feminism, health, language, relationships, violence | Tagged alcohol, consent, credibility, objections, rape, research, sexual violence, sexuality and health, stereotypes | 30 Responses

Linkulosity: Leavers’, a DV PSA, Risk, Green 404s, and ‘net censorship

By Lauredhel on November 27, 2008

The West is running a “Leavers’ Diary” in their Blogs section: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four. It’s a tedious, poorly-written mishmash of “got pissed, got laid, spewed, fuck yeah.” As you’d pretty much expect from Schoolies’ Week. The latest entry is starting to show signs of a “Dangers of Alcohol” story beloved [...]

Posted in fun & hobbies, gender & feminism, Politics, technology, violence | Tagged activism/charity, alcohol, blogging, censorship, cheezburgery, conroy, domestic violence, freedom of speech, internet censorship, internet filtering, LOLcats, moral panics, nocleanfeed, privacy, travel, violence against women | 12 Responses

Victim-blaming by the Queensland government

By Lauredhel on October 13, 2008

The Queensland Government has taken a leaf out of ALAC New Zealand’s book, launching a new victim-blaming campaign. The “Safer Drinking Cultures” programme aims to address binge drinking among young people. Unfortunately, they’ve decided to go with the old saw “Women drink, and get raped. Therefore, women should stop drinking in order to prevent rape.” [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, violence | Tagged advertising, alcohol, NZ, rape, victim blaming | 4 Responses

“It is a great mistake to allow the girl to attend lectures …”

By Lauredhel on February 29, 2008

Remember the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? It’s baaaack! For Teh Portly Dyke, I present: “On The Threshold of Womanhood: Puberty, or Adolescence”. A careful explanation of a mother’s responsibility to guide and manage her daughter’s fragile pubertal state, so that she may be properly transformed into a useful, submissive, God-fearing housework and baby machine. [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, history | Tagged alcohol, bodily organs, books & writing, breasts, puberty, race & racism, victoria, womanhood | 7 Responses

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