Update Friday 9th May: The Guardian has taken down the blog post and article featured in the following post. The original report has been challenged strongly and no-one else has come forward to support the allegations. I will leave the… Read More ›
sexual assault
Repellent Robbo, rape apologist
Clive Robertson, the man once considered a charmingly irascible curmudgeon on top rated TV and radio shows now battles to retain a midnight to dawn talk-back radio show, and if there’s any justice then what Media Watch revealed last night… Read More ›
Graeme Reeves: Medical rape culture and collegiality
[image source: cirp.org] NineMSN’s Sunday reports: “Who Watches the Doctors?”: A woman goes into her local hospital for routine minor surgery to remove a tiny lesion on her labia. But just before the anaesthetic is administered, her doctor leans over… Read More ›
Brainstorming alert
I need some input on an FAQ on “rape apology” for Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog. I want to make sure that I cover all the bases and include lots of links. Any suggestions gratefully considered.
Lib wannabe busted: snaps open woman’s bra-strap in “party trick” in chambers
Troy Buswell wanted to be the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party. Now, his “dream is in tatters”, according to a news.com.au report. Buswell has been dinged for snapping open the bra strap of a Labor Party staffer, in… Read More ›
Special snowflake watch
A physicist commenting on a post about how a newspaper report of a social sciences paper (speculating on why the rate of rape by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women is reportedly low) has whipped up somewhat of a rightwing frenzy… Read More ›
Rape in the military
One of the signs of changing attitudes towards rape, and sexual coercion generally in Western society, where it is harder for men now to openly claim that rape is sometimes OK or to believe that sometimes coerced sex is not… Read More ›
Wealth and justice in Orange County
The only reason these young men ever came to trial is that they not only videotaped their gang-rape and foreign object assault of their unconscious 16-year-old schoolmate Jane Doe, but they showed the tape to friends at parties to brag of what they’d done.
Hoyden About Town 