Category Archives: violence

Announcing Hollaback Australia

March 10, 2008 · by · in announcements, sexism, Social Justice, Solidarity & Sisterhood, violence

Holla Back Australia empowers Australian women to holler back at street harassers. If you’ve been harassed or groped on public transport, playing sport, eating out, working, walking between classes, dancing the night away, walking the dog, or enjoying the beach – you have the right to feel safe and to be safe. You don’t need […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rape and Evolution

November 12, 2007 · by · in clarifying-concepts, masculinity, reproductive justice, violence

A rather interesting discussion is developing in the comments to “Ask A Question“, but it’s becoming more and more off-topic, and I’m also concerned that it is inappropriate for the discussion to be in that thread with no PTSD trigger warnings, so I’m going to shift all the comments here and delete their text there […]

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