Category Archives: Sexuality & Health

Feminism Friday: Popularity of long-debunked rape myths: talk about disheartening

March 7, 2008 · by · in debunking myths, Feminism Friday, violence

Originally posted at Hoyden About Town The top link offered to me on Stumble-Upon for Women’s Issues is this: Through a Rapists Eyes, a page on a rape-prevention site. Unfortunately, they are propagating misinformation, pure and simple. Some of you may recognise the opening paragraphs as one of those emails that gets forwarded around the […]

Feminism Friday: two posts from Jill at Feministe on rape myths vs statistics

February 29, 2008 · by · in Feminism Friday, Solidarity & Sisterhood, violence

Both of these were written in response to an op-ed in the LA Times by Heather MacDonald. Post 1: It’s Only A Myth If You Believe That Those Sluts Were Asking For It This op/ed is one of the most ridiculous I’ve read in a long, long time (and that’s pretty impressive). Heather MacDonald argues […]

FAQ: But doesn’t evidence show that women are just as likely to batter their partners as men?

February 8, 2008 · by · in clarifying-concepts, Family & Work, FWW, gender, oppression, violence

A: No. This is an often repeated claim based on either faulty understanding or outright misrepresentation of a few studies made using the CONFLICT TACTICS SCALE (CTS) or similar self-report surveys. One of the authors of the original study, Richard Gelles, categorically rejects this interpretation of his research, and has done ever since these factoids […]

Book Alert: Playing With The Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal

February 5, 2008 · by · in gender, Sexuality & Health, Solidarity & Sisterhood, writings

I was sent a link to this last year, but I overlooked it. My apologies. Gender and sports needs more examination. An interview with one of the authors from the American Oxford University Press blog: Laura Pappano, co-author with Eileen McDonagh of Playing With The Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal, is an award-winning journalist […]

Blog for Choice Day 2008

January 22, 2008 · by · in announcements, reproductive justice, Social Justice

It’s the 35th anniversary of the U.S.A. Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade, a decision which allowed the legalisation of terminations of pregnancy in the U.S.A. on what is widely viewed as essentially a technicality, which is why the case is still so important. There is no Federal legislation decriminalising abortion, merely […]

Feed the FAQ: “rape apologist” definitions, clarifications and links

January 22, 2008 · by · in feminism, privilege, sexism, violence

I’d like to get some wider input into this one. The suggestion was made that we need a specific FAQ, and I think we do. This was my first take in comments answering that suggestion:

FAQ: But don’t all these DNA exonerations mean that women lie about being raped?

January 22, 2008 · by · in clarifying-concepts, FAQ, FWW, violence

A: No, what it means is that some prosecutors in the past proceeded to court solely on the basis of identifications without corroborating physical evidence, mostly in cases of stranger-rape, and that they convinced the juries in those cases that the identification was valid, when later evidence shows that the identification was mistaken. New procedures […]

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