Legal changes to sexual assault trials in NSW?
Peter Kemp, a legal practitioner in NSW, sent me this link, noting that it has significant implications on the right to a fair trial and that there are many points of view to be considered. BARRISTERS will be refused permission to cross-examine children and sexual assault victims under an Australian-first law to be brought in [...]
Napoli-esque fanfic stupid
Quoted on fanficrants: “just wow.” Um, oh my god. Review (for a story I didn’t write): one thing: if [she] used tampons, the rape wouldn’t have hurt that much. i guess it would’ve hurt a little but not as much as you made it sound…i think. I’m just… wow. I mean, wow. So there you [...]
Drinking while in the possession of a vagina
Yet another case of invisible rapists. Rape is something that just “happens” to women who “leave themselves vulnerable”. Male violence is to be considered a ubiquitous, inevitable force; the only way the world can combat it is to put the responsibility on women to not be victims. The flipside of women being responsible for rape [...]
Fat-hater wankstain du jour
Big Fat Deal reports on a chappie who thinks it’s a Splendid! Shiny! New! Activist! Idea! to start printing up and handing out Fat Tickets. He wants the world to start handing out these tickets, with the revelatory message “You’re Fat!”, to workmates, friends and family – and offering, among other things, to fuck them [...]
Sandilands, you’re a prat.
[image credit: news.com.au, capped by me.] So shock-jock Kyle Sandilands is a complete pillock. We all know that. He’s always been a pillock, he’s not funny, he’s a bigoted, nasty little twit. Sadly, he’s also a judge on Australian Idol, a show I otherwise enjoy. He is usually either yelling at another judge that they’re [...]
Not safe, not well, not unhurt, NOT SEX
[emphases are mine] [cut for child rape triggers] Related posts: A women’s safe house in Ngukurr and feelings of inadequacy It’s not “sex”, it’s rape. Why the inverted commas? Carnival Against Sexual Violence #37 Wealth and justice in Orange County
Songvids of femininity and masculinity: “Women’s Work” and “vogue_300″
Femcon ’07 opened with a Feminist Show & Tell session. [Cut for images of sexualised violence. The images are taken from mainstream entertainment, but could be triggering.] Related posts: If you don’t want to be shamed in public, don’t create a hostile work environment in public. #ISupportAdria Happy International Womens Day Enabling Femininity? The Violent [...]
Continuing the quest for non-misogynist pornography
Cracking post from Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon: Even the porn out there that strives to be non-misogynist gets called “alt” porn, which is basically a label indicating that porn that’s about getting off to sex instead of getting off to hurting women is something out of the mainstream. which is largely a response to way [...]
A prison sentence? Geez, ya think?
Sometimes I just wonder why I read the news. What the fuck? I have nothing to say. Cut for people-are-vile triggers. Not particularly gory, in the blood-and-guts sense. Whether it’s safe for work or not, I’m not prepared to say. It’s really not safe for anything unless you’ve sprayed on Brain-Explosion-Prevention-Spray beforehand, and have excellent [...]
Might as well go for the big three of humourless feminism
Seeing as the two previous posts are Lauredhel’s on rape culture and mine on prostitution, I thought I’d add a link to this post that I had been saving up for later in the week: Trouble in Pornoland. Written by a man who once used to enjoy porn with cheesy pool-boys and pizza delivery scenarios, [...]
Ignoring imprisonment and institutionalisation
As long as it’s only women in the sex industry being exploited and abused, that is. There’s two excellent posts around on legalised prostitution at the moment, examining the way that legalisation seems to have offered an extra layer of cover for the trafficking of other women in what is tantamount to slavery, and incidentally [...]
Drowning in the static
I haven’t written anything about rape culture for a while now. Sometimes I’m just not sure what to say. Half the population experiences it directly, and the other half often seems to me to be divided into those who actively participate in it, and those who seem to not quite believe that it exists*. And [...]
Another linkfest: the Headcold edition
Taken in the front garden this morning Cory Doctorow has a piece in the Guardian about how the movie studio quest for a perfect copy protection system is doomed to fail. DRM is supposed to force those unwilling to pay into buying, rather than nicking, their media – but once the cheapskates can search for [...]
Linkation: Broken trust, Hammer time, and dino shoes.
Some weekend reading for you: ABC News: “Doctor criticises Indigenous child health checks” Maningrida doctor Paul Burgess says the checks, part of the Federal Government’s intervention into Indigenous child sex abuse, are being carried out by inexperienced doctors who know little about Aboriginal issues. [...] Dr Burgess held back tears as he talked about the [...]
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