From the monthly archives:

February 2008

On sexual assault and language

by Cara February 29, 2008

Considering the Heather MacDonald op-ed this week that claimed a woman who does not refer to her experience of having non-consensual sex forced upon her by the proper word has not actually been raped, one might think that there would be some small vindication in this news item. And indeed, it certainly does make MacDonald [...]

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We Don’t Need No (Sex)Education

by Cara February 28, 2008

Here’s a shocker: the teachers who are forced to act as puppets for the “if you lie enough times it will become true” abstinence-only brigade haven’t got the slightest clue what they’re doing. How many of you received this kind of “education” and got precisely that impression? A sizable minority of sex education teachers does [...]

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A Response to MacDonald, A Lack of Apology

by Cara February 27, 2008

Today, The LA Times has published a “Blowback” response from Nora, a SAFER blogger and student activist, to the atrocious Sunday op-ed “What Campus Rape Crisis”. I think that she did a good job using the space she had and the language she could while both writing for a mainstream newspaper and representing her organization. [...]

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If Anti-Choicers Want Women to Know Their Rights, I’ve Got an Offer They Can’t Refuse

by Cara February 26, 2008

Following in the great misogynist leader South Dakota’s footsteps, anti-choice havens Kansas and Missouri are working on new legislation to restrict abortion, burden providers, condescend to patients, and all around cause more hardship and pain to any woman unfortunate enough to be pregnant and not jumping for joy over it. Of course, they’re not going phrase [...]

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LA Times: Women Should Stop Bitching About the Rape that Doesn’t Actually Happen

by Cara February 25, 2008

This is, without a doubt, the most offensive thing that I have read in weeks, if not months. Not because I haven’t read it all before. But because usually when I read long rambling articles about how women aren’t actually raped, the feminists make it all up because the idea of violence apparently makes them [...]

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Why ask men to stop raping when women can barricade themselves in their homes?

by Cara February 23, 2008

I know that this is old “news.” It has to have been around for decades. I know that I’ve ranted about it before. And I know that it might even be a mistake to give this kind of bullshit anymore attention than it already has, but I’ll be damned if this article in a college [...]

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South Dakota Brings Back That Woman-Hating Feeling

by Cara February 22, 2008

A new anti-choice bill has just been passed in South Dakota and is now awaiting the inevitable signature of the state’s anti-choice governor. It will require OB/GYNs who perform abortions (not “abortion doctors,” as the article calls them) to ask their patients if they would like to view the ultrasound images of their fetus prior [...]

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Female Golfer Sues Club for Discrimination

by Cara February 22, 2008

A woman has sued her municipal golf course for refusing her right to play in a tournament because she is a woman. Elaine Joyce, a champion amateur golfer, and her father were looking forward to a weekend tournament last May at the respected public course on Cape Cod where they hold full memberships. But their [...]

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Ithaca Responds to College Rape Policies

by Cara February 21, 2008

Via the SAFER blog, there is an update of sorts on the Ithaca College rape case, where the school determined that a Resident Adviser had raped another student, but let him keep his job anyway — even while admitting that an RA caught using drugs would be terminated. Student newspaper The Ithacan, which original broke [...]

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My Daughter Has a Hand Mirror, and Other Signs that the Sky is Falling

by Cara February 20, 2008

I know that this is way too easy. But all the same, when I ran across this “opinion piece” in the RH Reality Check news aggregator, I laughed so hard that I nearly sprayed orange juice across the computer screen. It just screams satire, and yet is absolutely, frighteningly serious. From Robert H. Knight, Sex [...]

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