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modelslips
"Not Rape Epidemic": The Modeling Industry Is Anything But Immune
The modeling industry sets up camp at the crossroads of youth & beauty and age & wealth — and moreover, it's an arena where those qualities cleave to the most predictable gender and power divide.
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Comment by VaginaWig is A Merkin: By being shamed into keeping silent about these things, we send the message to men that it is okay to... 42 Responses | Other threads
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obama recruits rape victim for ad
Why Recruiting A Rape Survivor For A Political Ad Makes Me Uncomfortable
On Monday, the news that the Obama campaign was supposedly actively recruiting a rape victim to appear in a campaign spot left me feeling vaguely disturbed, and I said so. Other women, like Ann at Feministing, Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein of Firedoglake (as well as some of you) disagreed. And, that's fine. But I think it deserves to be a conversation. As the victim of sexual assaults, I too would like to be able to stand up and say what was done to me without pitying looks or shocked looks or discomfort. It's why I am willing to talk about mine. But there's a pretty big gap, to me, between trying to make saying "I was sexually assaulted" as normative an experience for me, the speaker, as for the listener, and being asked to use it to say, "Please go elect Barack Obama."
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By MeganComment by Hamsterpants: This is like anything else. If you feel uncomfortable about it, by all means, don't do it, and you shouldn't... 23 Responses | Other threads
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personal, political
Hey Ladies: John McCain Values Your Potential Offspring More Than Your Actual Votes
Ever since the end of the Democratic primary left some Clinton supporters less than inclined to support Barack Obama, John McCain has been wooing them by sending female surrogate Carly Fiorina around to meet with select groups of women and Clinton supporters. While Carly's careful not to besmirch McCain's stellar anti-choice record, she tends to hint that he might be willing to "compromise" on other issues, like paid maternity leave (which he voted against), equal pay (ditto) and a federal mandate to cover birth control. If that story and polls suggesting that 49 percent of women in battleground states who favor McCain are pro-choice — and almost half of them think McCain is, too — there's quite a gap between the myth of Maverick McCain and the reality of the guy who panders to the right wing and thinks Roe v. Wade should be overturned.
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By MeganComment by tiredfairy: @noUpside: Because if you make more money you can, in theory, better afford the taxes because you have more to begin... more » | Other threads
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personal, political
My Sexual Assault Is Not Your Political Issue
A lot of electronic ink has been generated this week talking about the story that 3 Welsh Parliamentarians anonymously admitted that they had been sexually assaulted and hadn't reported it. A separate survey of students, also conducted by Amnesty International, showed that 34 percent of the 700 students surveyed believed that "a woman was totally or partially responsible for being raped or sexually assaulted if she was drunk or had been flirtatious." Under normal circumstances, I would use this sentence to summarize the shock evinced by people and the unsubtle implication that these (relatively powerful) women — without anyone knowing the circumstances or the timing of their sexual assaults — should have reported it, and then I would leave it be. But it made me recall the times in my life that people I cared for disrespected my decision not to report mine, so I figured it was about time to throw down the gauntlet. More »
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By MeganComment by embobly: Ok, ok. Not reporting sexual assaults is fucked up. No matter what your reasons are. No matter... 5 Responses | Other threads
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