This is so infuriating! If a woman says “no”, she says “no”! It doesn’t matter who she is saying “no” to. Apparently, in the UK, a top Tory senior adviser says that “suggested rape accusations made by women against their partners should be treated as “disagreements” between lovers.”
Well of course it’s a disagreement. One person […]
A judge in Canada called a rape victim “stupid” and “naive” because she got into a car with a man who offered to take her to a bus station, but instead drove her to a cemetery and brutally raped her. While the judge did sentence the rapist with 3 1/2 years in prison, he […]
I have issues with authors who write emotionally fueled pieces about their bad experiences and attempt to get people on their side. Almost every single article of this nature I have read is a thinly disguised grudge against some group, person, or figure. This article in The New York Times by an ex-sorority girl about […]
[Source]
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fanythings.org%2F2007%2F11%2F29%2Fwhat-to-do-if-you-or-a-friend-are-sexually-assaulted%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘What+to+do+if%26%238230%3B+you+or+a+friend+are+sexually+assaulted’;
addthis_pub = ‘eabinante’;
The problem is complicated, the solution is simple (according to one judge): just say you’re sorry.
Eight boys in Australia filmed their sexual assault of a 17 year old girl and “distributed it as a DVD throughout the community”. You’d think that a filmed record of the event and their confessions along with guilty pleas would […]
Apparently, we have returned to the classic stereotype that if a heterosexual man has an affair, it is his female partner’s fault. I am just as aghast at the comments to this article as I am with the actual text. Summary: Emily is a busy lawyer with a husband and two year old son. She […]
The Feminist Wetlbanket is a weekly column where Liz looks at popular culture from a feminist point of view… and then beats it down with her sharp words. This week, she gives you a closer look inside something near and dear to her: Harry Potter.
I should probably preface this by explaining the background of […]
Castration in exchange for a shorter prison sentence for rapists? I think yes!
Of course, it’s never as simple as “cut the penis, cure the rapist”, but it is a step in the right direction. Not because the justice system is cutting off people’s penises, but because courts are finally becoming more serious about alternative punishments […]
Ok, I get that your life was falling apart in front of you but people have been through worse and not brutally raped and murdered 11 year old girls.
Plenty of people get kicked out of their homes by their significant others. People lose their jobs, people get sexually, physically, and mentally abused as children and […]