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

By 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.

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Strewth, that's what this country needs, the word "gormless" as a political slur

Strewth, that’s what this country needs, the word “gormless” as a political slur

By on May 22, 2008

Turnbull puts his credibility on the line MALCOLM Turnbull has offered his experience in merchant banking and business as underlining his economic credibility and attacked Wayne Swan as gormless, gutless and opposed to individual enterprise. It’s doesn’t quite have the quaint ring of “hasn’t got the ticker” though, and it certainly doesn’t come close to [...]

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WordPress.com enables another new “feature” to far from universal acclaim

By on April 28, 2008

Looking at Fire Fly’s blog, I noticed that she’s discovered that a new feature on her hosted-by-Wordpress.com blog. It turned up without direct notification, and is opt-out, not opt-in. … » Problem No.1 (She’s disabled it, and you should too if you blog on wordpress.com – see below for instructions)

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