Erin Gloria Ryan's saved articles

With all due respect, I think some anonymous Internet speculators might have a little more insight into his motivations than your boyfriend does. Read more

Azealia...girl...no. You are not allowed to define what a slur means unless you are the object of that slur. And even then, it's a slippery slope. Please stop. Read more

Oh my god, seriously. Just because she also hates Iggy Azalea doesn't mean she's awesome. The enemy of my enemy is sometimes still just a huge fucking douchebag. Read more

I'm all about that outfit! Read more

YES. I never understood why you wouldn't want to look like Cruella, if not a few years younger with less messy hair. Read more

This is one of the most important pieces I've read in a really long time. Read more

I can see it only because that note was sent literally two days after the assault. That's not a lot of time to process and come to terms with it. She may have still felt like if she could get him to sit down and talk about what happened between them, he'd understand and apologize and they could move forward. It also… Read more

I think I understand why Sulkowicz wrote what she wrote to him, but I truly don't understand what she thinks the university or anyone else is supposed to do about it. The only two people who know what happened are her and the guy, but if she has no evidence, whether physical or circumstantial, there's not a whole hell… Read more

As someone who was... I never really know the words for it... date-sexually assaulted (not penetration rape, but he took all my clothes, held me down, yelled at me, tried to pry my arms and legs open, and I managed to get away) I know the "wanting to talk" feeling. I was dating this guy, very causally- but dating. We… Read more

"The impression of a man who watched disciplinary proceedings in which he wasn't directly involved doesn't dictate how a woman being cross-examined about her sexuality can and cannot feel" Read more

I think too many people assume that, for anyone who experiences acquaintance rape, that experience will act like a switch on their feelings, and, BOOM, you'll clearly feel like that person is an asshole. That probably happens in some cases. But when it is someone to whom you are close, whom you trust, with whom… Read more

Even if all these women were somehow "mistaken," you would hope that Columbia would think that this guy is, at the minimum, a shitty individual who has questionable behavior around women, and maybe isn't somebody they want on their campus. Read more

this is all very serious but can we just glory in that girl's brilliant updogging of this idiot Read more

We have this cultural notion that I see getting in the way of how we think of not just rapists, but all major criminals: We can't seem to shake this myth that "good people don't do bad things." Read more

I think most of us are predisposed to look for ambiguity, for a grey area between the "he said" and the "she said" because we are programmed to do so out of a misguided sense of skepticism or even agnosticism when it comes to sexual assault. In my own case, that was the most crazy-making aspect; otherwise perfectly… Read more

Dear Josie: You are my hero.

I love how people automatically question every rape accuser but the word of the rapist is somehow taken as fact? It just baffles me. He said he didn't do it! All of these people who claim they were raped by this person must be lying! Read more

I have to admit, I found Cathy's piece yesterday credible. I didn't recognize her byline, and I couldn't imagine why a woman would say she loved somebody who raped her or suggest hanging out with him. The longer transcripts and Emma's explanations put my concerns in context. It looks like she was trying to pull away… Read more

The kind where she lives in a patriarchy, and is lucky enough to not be a victim of abuse. Most people have just-world bias, it's the majority.

Surprisingly good writeup about Just-World Bias:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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