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more about #rape more comments → girlarchaeologist: I can provide anecdotal evidence to back up the driving in the snow poll. Trucks blow past me on a regular basis. I feel like I should have a sign o... more » BytheSea: Advance doesn't matter. If your book sells over the advance, then you're paid royalties for the overage. However, for the normal author, if your book... more » gherkinfiend: And now you know why the UK has around a 6% rape conviction rate on a good year...the police only worry about doing something wrong when it might affe... more » lucylooo: Slow down in bad weather? I can't count the number of times I"ve had some jackass blow by me doing 140 on the 401 in near-whiteout conditions. It's ... more » curiousgeorgiana: In addition to being worthy of a larger advance, Secretary Clinton's book was actually readable. more » phantom lady: soooooo.... being born a girl is a side effect? more » Miss Scarlett: I like that raising the chance of having a girl is known as a "side effect". Really no one would ever know they are having a girl vs. boy because of m... more » MargaretMoony: God, stories about people who don't know they're pregnant until they give birth terrify me! I mean, they made a whole tv series about it so it could ... more » clevernamehere: The Sacred Heart assault case is interesting. I saw an AP piece on it where they had assumed it was a gang rape and then had to re-edit when the foun... more » Ailatan: "I wish I could be more artful in the way I say things." so you're actually praising yourself for your honesty? more » maude_flanders: Latoya, thank you for this post. The more I think about this problem--about women as simply bodies, and someone else's desire to "get some" nullifying... more » kellieherson: During my freshman "week of welcome", this was the extent of our conversation on rape: a skit, and then an open forum for responses to the skit, which... more » aimeeg: I really don't like that first poster. I know it's always positive to try and do something about rape, and it's definitely a good thing to make men mo... more » Ditty Nicolaides: Years ago, I used to teach second year medical students how to perform pelvic exams. Regarding communications skills, I used mental imagery in the in... more » contessa001: One, who determines who is high risk? "Based on research showing that fraternity men have a higher likeli- hood of committing sexual assault than oth... more » -
#leftovers
On The Shelf: Hillary Vs. Sarah • Study: Police Ignore Rape Claims If Victim Is Drunk
• Sad, sad news: Going Rogue beat Hillary Clinton's memoir in sales with 700,000 to Clinton's 600,000. However, the awesome Secretary of State received a much bigger advance of $8 mil, while Palin was only offered five. • More » -
#raperape
What's Being Taught In College Rape Prevention Programs?
Asking men to visualize being raped is a graphic way to prove a point-but is it an effective strategy to prevent assault? College campuses around the country are beginning to adopt prevention programs and a new article examines their tactics. More » -
#justicefornone
KBR Arbitration Awards Another Assault Victim
Former military construction contractor Tracy Barker was raped in Iraq in 2005 while on the job. Barker went through arbitration and won a settlement, but her former employer, Kellogg Brown & Root, is still trying to screw her over. More » -
#freudianslips
Figure Of Speech
Media Matters compiled this clip of conservative pundits talking about "rape." But they don't mean the sex crime: It's a metaphor, noobs. A strangely pervasive and totally fucked up metaphor, but that's Glenn Beck for you. [HuffingtonPost] -
#comicrelief
Sarah Haskins Targets Scary Home Security Ads
We covered the shrill, fear-based badvertising commercials for home security systems in December 2008, in August 2009 and October 2009. Today, Sarah Haskins tackles the same damsel-in-distress ads. More » -
#surprisingstatistics
Rapists Admit Repeated Crimes — As Long As You Don't Call It "Rape"
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 » -
#filmschooled
The Killer Inside Me: Sex, Death & Sadism
Sociological Images has come across a trailer for the film The Killer Inside Me and it's disturbing. Caution: We've rated it NSFW, Spoiler Alert, and Serious Trigger Warning. More » -
#antisocialmedia
Facebook Allows "Pro-Rape, Anti-Consent" Group To Stay On The Site For Months
A group of students, both past and present, of the all-male St. Paul's College at Sydney University, decided to create a pro-rape Facebook page called "Define Statutory" that reportedly was allowed to stay up on the site for several months. More » -
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#numbercrunching
Rape Statistics: Don't Believe Everything You Read
Two oft-cited Department of Justice reports understate the number of rapes among people with disabilities and — because of faulty data-collection techniques — all women. The second report may underestimate the number of rapes committedin 2008 by 818,000. [Feministing] -
#truecrime
In Richmond Rape, One Teen Did The Right Thing
"I'm like 'We should call the cops because that's the right thing to do.' I didn't think about it twice." — Margarita Vargas, 18, who reported the gang-rape in Richmond while others simply watched [Crimesider] -
#truecrime
"Violence Is Always The Wrong Choice:" Richmond Rape Survivor Speaks Out
At a rally at Richmond High School yesterday, a pastor read a statement from the victim of last weekend's horrific gang rape — she acknowledged her community's anger, but cautioned against letting violence beget more violence. More » -
#lawandhorror
Convicted Rapist Arrested After Police Find Bodies In His Home
Police in Cleveland, Ohio, have arrested convicted rapist Anthony Sowell after a suspected six decomposing bodies were found at his home. Sowell previously spent 15 years in prison after being convicted of rape in 1989. [MSNBC] -
#truecrime
Why Did No One Stop The Richmond Gang Rape?
Five suspects are in custody for the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl after her homecoming dance in Richmond, California, and police say more than twenty people may have witnessed the assault. So why didn't anyone help her? More » -
#leftovers
Five Arrested In Homecoming Assault; Sarah Palin Slams Levi, CBS
• Five men have been arrested in the gang rape and robbery of a 15-year-old teen outside her school's homecoming. Police say they now think 10 people took part in the assault as 20 watched and, possibly, took pictures. • More » -
#notablehateable
Vile Vidal
"I really don't give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?" — Gore Vidal's "take on Polanski". [The Atlantic] -
#leftovers
Teacher Invents Wallace/Gromit Brekky Machine • Aceh Considers Ban On Tight Trousers
• Design teacher Yuri Suzuki has created this truly awesome breakfast machine, which automatically cooks omelets from scratch, toasts bread, and brews fresh coffee. Suzuki says he was inspired by Hollywood films, including Back to the Future. • More » -
#meatandmorals
Natalie Portman: If We Don't Tolerate Rape, Why Do We Tolerate Meat?
Today on the Huffington Post, actress/activist Natalie Portman has an impassioned defense of Jonathan Safran Foer's vegetarian manifesto Eating Animals. She writes that "being polite to your tablemates" shouldn't trump morality.
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#truecrime
Bay Area Homecoming Dance Becomes Scene Of Brutal Crime
Brace yourself for the most stomach-turning story in a long time: on Friday, a 15-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped after a homecoming dance in a suburb of San Francisco, while as many as 15 teenage boys stood around, doing nothing. More » -
#madwomen
"She Thinks It Was A Bad Date, A Bad Evening."
—Christina Hendricks on Joan being raped by her fiancé. Hendricks also says: "Joan likes to make things very tidy and clean… I think she justifies certain things and cleans them up in her mind." [NY Magazine]
