Remember bluemilk’s post earlier this month about revolting victim-blaming in the case of a child being gang-raped in Cleveland, Texas? The victim-blaming continues, with a nasty side-serve of ethnic conflict between Latin- and African-Americans, but the major feminist point remains this, noted by Liss at Shakesville last week:
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.
Categories: ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, violence
Grabbing somebody is Assault, and sexual touch makes it Sexual Assault. Stop minimising this. #rapeculture101 
Quicklink of the Day #2: #DestroyTheJoint excludes voices of women with disabilities 
Friday Hoyden: Gillian Triggs 
Hands up anybody now who’d trust Rolling Stone to tell their story? 
Hoyden About Town 
QFT. I just don’t even know, how do you argue against that sort of gendered hatred and racism? There’s basically nothing that could convince these people.
Not enough booze ever.
I’ve been quoting that everywhere – it’s clear. It’s rape culture.
Sigh.
Big ups to you, Boganette and others, supporting QoT’s post on abortion reform over at The Standard. I think you actually got through to a few.