By tigtog on January 9, 2013
The “Don’t Be That Guy” campaign is a public service rape prevention campaign launched in Edmonton in 2010, and adopted by other cities in Canada, which took the radical step of aiming its message, not at potential rape victims, but at potential rapists.
Posted in education, gender & feminism, law & order, violence | Tagged consent, rape culture, rape prevention, sexual assault |
By tigtog on December 19, 2012
Rebecca Watson decided to Tweet something super controversial to satisfy my feminazi need to make men cry: Minds were blown! Up is down! Left is right! Cats and dogs, sleeping together!
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, violence | Tagged consent, Deep Rifts™, enthusiastic consent, rape culture |
By Mary on January 29, 2012
This is the 44th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2011 feminist posts from writers living in Australia and New Zealand.
Posted in Culture, Life, linkfest, Politics, Sociology | Tagged abortion, activism/charity, asexuality, australia, australian women writers challenge, beauty standards, carnival, cinema, consent, disability, doctor-who, documentaries, Down Under Feminists Carnival, dufc, fashion, fat acceptance, fat hate, gaming, identity politics, islam, marriage equality, new zealand, prison system, race & racism, reproductive rights, sex workers, sexual assault, triggering, vaccination, victim blaming, workplace |
By Lauredhel on April 16, 2010
Tara Murtha at Philadelphia Weekly brings us Watch Your Language: Pedophilia, gang rape and erroneous Fox29 reporting, which has an opinion from a forensic semanticist about calling rape “having sex” or “a sexual relationship” in court: But after a recent episode of American Idol (team Bowersox), I accidentally caught some of MyFoxPhilly 29’s local news [...]
Posted in language, violence | Tagged consent, fox news, gang rape, journalism, pedophilia, rape, sex, victim blaming |
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 |
By Lauredhel on March 1, 2009
Sydney Morning Herald: “Women should say yes, yes, yes more” Forty years after liberated women felt able to say “no” to their partners’ demands for sex, they have been urged to say “yes” more often to keep their men happy. Sex therapist and psychologist Bettina Arndt said different libidos were creating a generation of men [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, violence | Tagged consent, domestic violence, marriage, rape, relationships, sexual violence, women |
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