If the fact that there are people who will argue with a straight fucking face that an 11-year-old child “didn’t do enough” to stop eighteen young men from raping her doesn’t convince everyone with a capacity for reason and any trace of decency that we live in a culture that supports and condones rape, I can’t imagine what possibly could.
Day: 2011-03-21
Libya NFZ and selective support for Arab uprisings
Open thread on ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings and retaliations.
Some good news from Japan
Two tsunami survivors found nine days later in Ishinomaki City; the ‘Fukushima 50’ volunteers are gradually stabilising the reactor crisis.
Masculinity and the fear of losing it
It took becoming a mother of a son for me to realise just how fearful the world is of losing masculinity. I mean, god knows there are lots of rules about gender binary and how girls and women perform femininity, too, but I don’t think we’re as frightened of femininity being corrupted and lost as we are of masculinity being diluted.
Hoyden About Town 