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Date-rape can be confusing — for the victim, for policymakers, and apparently, for advice columnists, one of whom recently offered some none-too-compassionate tips for a woman whose friend believed she'd been raped. More »
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Remember those Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board ads about how if you drink too much alcohol and end up getting raped, you should blame both own drunk ass and your friends? Well, we weren't the only ones who thought they were stupid. After numerous complaints, the PLCB has taken the ads down. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5866487&view=rss&microfeed=true A University of Central Florida fraternity is in deep shit after getting caught playing a "game" involving roofies at a pirate-themed mixer with Kappa Kappa Gamma in February. Date rape, ahoy! More »
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Amidst the pages of boozing, fist-pumping, and partying in Snooki's first novel—A Shore Thing—is an alarming scene involving Bella (cousin of the main character Gia) and some preppy assholes. Check out the excerpt after the jump. More »
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Twelve young women were hospitalized this weekend after apparently being drugged with roofies at a party. Police have arrested one man — but the victims may be punished too. More »
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James O'Keefe, the ACORN-stinging fake pimp, had a novel idea on how to derail CNN's Abbie Boudreau documentary about young right-wing activists like him: seduce her and make a blackmail-ready sex tape. Wait til you hear about his planned moves. More »
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Thanks to the reader who sent pictures of the advertising easel sitting outside Williamsburg, Brooklyn's "Subway" bar promoting $5 drink specials...and, it seems, sexual assault. The "Cum On In": an especially disgusting touch. [Woman Of Steele] More »
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Says Alex Knepper: "my columns are to be neutered, and I will no longer be allowed to engage with my readers. [...] I cannot morally sanction this; therefore, I must leave." Also resigning: a blogger who supported him. [Eagle, Sexist] More »
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Like Erykah Badu last week, former Cheetah Girl Kiely Williams has sparked controversy with a music video. But this one may glamorize date rape. More »
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"Here's a little math equation Knepper's critics will never understand: Guys + Gals + Parties + Excessive Boozing = Some gal(s) getting raped or some guy(s) getting falsely accused of rape." — Gregory Hane [Washington Examiner] More »
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Alex Knepper's claim that "date rape is an incoherent concept" continues to make waves, this time with an interview in which he says people of color are anti-gay, but at least smart enough not to get raped. More »
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In 2008, Lady Gaga dropped her first single, "Just Dance," an ode to dancing while extremely wasted. More »
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The American University Eagle will issue an apology for publishing Alex Knepper's column claiming "'date rape' is an incoherent concept." Says the editor-in-chief, "The column offended a lot of people, and as a human being, that upsets me." [Washington Post] More »
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After sophomore Alex Knepper claimed that "'date rape' is an incoherent concept" in the American University Eagle, many AU students wrote us to voice their anger. And Knepper himself wrote in to explain his "call for personal responsibility." More »
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The latest evidence that today's college kids are getting a lesson in victim-blaming: an American University sophomore's claim that girls who go to frat parties are asking for it, and consent is basically bullshit anyway. More »
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On last night's episode, Amy—a twentysomething anorexic/self-mutilator/alcoholic—was having difficulty dealing with her family. They're "fed up" with her "attention seeking"—her sister thinks Amy's date rape was her own fault, and her father secretly wishes she'd kill herself. More »
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• Haifa Wehbe, a famous Lebanese pop singer, has come under fire for singing a song with racist lyrics. The song is from a children's album, and includes the line: "Where is my teddy bear and my Nubian monkey?" • More »
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According to a new study of college students, men will admit to rape as long as you don't call it that — and the same few men are offending multiple times without getting caught. More »
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• A CDC advisory committee has recommended GlaxoSmithKline's HPV vaccine Cervarix, which is similar to Merck's Gardasil vaccine, for use in girls and women. But, some say Cervarix is overpriced because it offers less protection than Gardasil. • More »
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Lucinda Rosenfeld is shocked that her readers think a woman who was roofied might also have been raped, and deserved a more serious response. Rosenfeld says, "I have to admit, I did not think of that at the time." [DoubleX] More »
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The UK-based cosmetics company 2LoveMy has launched a new lip gloss that doubles as a date-rape drug detection kit. More »
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Last night's Primetime featured Jeffrey Marsalis, who allegedly used Match.com to meet, drug, and rape 22 women. For some reason, producers ran a sexy, smoky interview with his defense attorney... and their sponsor was the erectile dysfunction drug Levitra. More »
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Some critics claimed the date rape scene in Observe and Report wasn't so bad when seen in context. Now that everyone had a chance to see the film this weekend, bloggers are weighing in. More »
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If you're thinking about seeing the light-hearted Seth Rogen comedy Observe & Report, you may want to watch this R-rated trailer first...or maybe not. More »
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Cary Tennis at Salon answers a letter from a woman who logged into Facebook to be confronted with the smiling face of her date rapist taunting her as a person she might know. Oh, God. More »
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Today Good Morning America ran a segment from Primetime's hidden camera series "What Would You Do?" which routinely tests the limits of responsible journalism. More »
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According to a story in January's Marie Claire (posted online yesterday), Hong Kong prostitutes are slipping roofies to businessmen in order to rob them. Some say it's a way to turn the tables on men. More »
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We've covered the sickening case of serial rapist Jeffrey Marsalis before, but Self magazine has followed up and given it a little more context. That context is, of course, that date rapes remain extremely hard to prosecute or get convictions on, as 8 of Marsalis's 10+ victims already know... and hopefully one more is not about to find out. More »
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In a GQ interview this weekend, Helen Mirren shit all over rape victims, saying that when a victim chooses to engage in sexual activity with a man, she shouldn't press charges if he then goes on to sexually assault her. Mirren, who admits to being a victim of date rape during her college years, believes that a woman should know better than to kiss a man she doesn't intend to fuck in a private locale and should just keep that British stiff upper lip firmly in place if he then holds her down and forcibly inserts his penis into any of her orifices because, God knows, a man shouldn't be expected to stop engaging in sexual behavior just because a woman asks, let alone, screams, yells, cries or tries to escape. More »
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Hot on the heels of this week's news that the UK's by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority reduced the standard compensatory awards given to 15 rape victims by 25 percent because they had been drinking before their assaults comes the news that they're not going to do that anymore — or fix the situation for the women they originally did it to. But it's also ignited a bit of a furor in the UK over whether assault victims who supposedly make themselves more susceptible to assault by drinking share some portion of the culpability for that assault. More »
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A surrogate "baby factory" has opened in Poland where 37 young women are ready to give birth to babies for couples unable to conceive for roughly $22,000 a child. • An 84-year-old Nigerian man with 86 wives advises men against taking so many partners, but he was granted his power to "control" and "heal" women by God, so, you know, whatevs. • In the wake of the news that The Well of Loneliness is being reprinted for its 80th anniversary, one critic asks if there is still a need for the category of "lesbian literature." • Researchers have discovered that your natural body odor is determined by genetics, not simply your level of cleanliness. More »
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The new issue of Cosmo is here! And before we delved into what promises to be a riveting interview with Scarlett Johansson, we sated our thirst for "Conversation Starters," the monthly feature in which Cosmo editors offer up little tidbits of trivia that promise to "make you the most interesting person in the room — by far." Last month we learned about doga — yoga! for dogs! — and the contracts some brides-to-be are now dispensing to their bridesmaids prohibiting them from gaining weight. But this month…well, pushed the envelope just a bit further! Click for August's "perfect icebreaker"… More »
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Hey, look at the T-shirt! It says "No Means No (Well, maybe if I'm drunk.)" Is this an overly, like, Jezebel thing to write a post about? Whatever! It's Friday! Okay, sooooo, "No means no." See the period? Affirmative? Good. After a few drinks and maybe a blow job, you can add another sentence. Such as: "Oh who am I kidding, I have no self-control." Or: "Okay, enough with your dick in my mouth, I changed my mind." Or: "What with the increased bloodflow in the direction of my gonads I am going to have to reconsider that stance." Those and numerous other statements would, in effect, render void and inapplicable the preceding "No." The fact that the word "no" had been uttered prior to the consent, for whatever reason, is moot. And yet! Somehow the often-amusing, eminently human phenomenon that is changing one's mind as to one's amenability to sex with an individual, a process men and women experience with frequency, has been twisted into an excuse for rape. Successfully twisted, we should add: even if the whole "one in four women gets raped in college" is exaggerated, uh...it is one in four. More »
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Former Tory Minister of Parliament John Redwood has much of Britain up in arms this week over comments he made about date rape. In a blog post published last Friday, the politician, a crony of Conservative party leader David Cameron, slammed the opposing Labour Party for its "doctrine of equivalence", which treats stranger rape and acquaintance rape in the same fashion. "None of us want men to rape women," Redwood, (shown golfing above), writes, "but there is a difference between a man using unreasonable force to assault a woman on the street, and a disagreement between two lovers over whether there was consent on one particular occasion when the two were spending an evening or night together." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=335128&view=rss&microfeed=true The greater The Manchester, England police department launched two date rape awareness ads yesterday, hoping to show that "sexual assaults often take place between newly-made acquaintances or with people who know each other and often when they've had a drink." While the intent is admirable, the actual commercials leave a lot to be desired. There are two versions of the ad, one from the woman's point of view, one from the man's, and, as you'll see above, the reactions of the rapist and victim are identical: They're both shot staring guiltily at the bathroom mirror, which seems to imply that a victim of sexual assault should feel ashamed or humiliated. In addition, the commercial seems to be blaming alcohol for the entire scenario, which totally absolves the perpetrator of any real accountability in this gray rape. More »
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A college student is filing suit against her school and bunch of hospitals that allegedly denied her the courtesy of a rape kit after she was drugged and anally date raped. They denied her service, you see, because she appeared intoxicated. (!!!) This news comes to us from the sheltered conservative campus of George Washington University in that Bible Belt enclave known as Washington D.C. Now, to the hospitals' credit, she was vomiting — ew! — and had two friends with her to take care of her so she really didn't need their help anyway, and seriously it's not like weekend nights in D.C. are short on crime victims so you can sort of see an ER worker in blood-spattered scrubs surveying the drunky freshman from the other side of town and thinking, "Let's be honest, neither one of us wants me to spend an hour probing your ass right now." But then, like the responsible freshman some of us would definitely not be, she went back the next morning! More »
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• Women who use makeup every day are said to absorb five pounds of makeup per year into their skin; some believe the chemicals contribute to cancer. [Telegraph

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