The Birth Whisperer (and just about everyplace else in the birthosphere) has published a sign posted in the Aspen Women’s Center in Utah, USA. Description: A teal sign on an office wall, reading: Because the physicians at Aspen Women’s Center… Read More ›
violence
Quotes OTD: Self-Proclaimed Good Guy Who Simply Won’t Take No For An Answer
This is now eons old in internet time, but I love it anyway. It’s from one of the massive threads over at Shapely Prose where women spoke about why shouldn’t be guilted into “just being nice” to men who intrusively ignore their widely understood social signals of being busy/involved/uninterested as they are going about their day commuting, walking in a park, sitting in a cafe/bar or whatever.
It’s not “sex”, it’s rape: teen girls and “unwanted sex”
In today’s “It’s Not Sex, It’s Rape” files I present Melanie Christiansen’s article in the Courier Mail, “Unwanted teen sex tied to binge drinking“. AN explosion in binge drinking among high school girls is driving an increase in unwanted teen… Read More ›
Quickhit: Rape Culture 101
Because Melissa McEwan’s comprehensive post deserves to be read and bookmarked by absolutely everyone. Obviously, trigger warnings apply.
Essentialism damages, even kills
Is this becoming a pattern in Australian heterosexual behaviour, and criminal sentencing? 1. A dysfunctional couple have a child. The dad just decides he’ll opt out of the child care role. 2. The mum is such an abominable carer that… Read More ›
Quickhits: We are dying
Lancaster Online: Crash injures man on mobility scooter David Bair, 72, of Ephrata, was driving his personal mobility scooter southbound along North Church Street around 11:30 a.m. when the accident occurred. […] A southbound car driven by John Risser, 81,… Read More ›
The Polanski “morals issue” – just so we’re all on the same page.
Further to Tigtog’s quickhit on Polanski, can we just clear up one point? This is not a shades-of-grey issue. This is not a “Romeo & Juliet” statutory rape case. This is not a “barely legal” case. This is not a… Read More ›
New study on negative effects of smacking children
Dr Straus said children who constantly faced physical punishment lived in fear and suffered stress, which was associated with poorer academic performance.
Press Release from Equality Now
Remember the RapeLay video game, written about by Melissa and Cara back in February? Equality Now has been working to persuade Japan to uphold its obligations under UN conventions with respect to material that normalises and/or promotes violence against women and girls.
“This never happened in my day; I blame the internet”
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Hoyden About Town 