March 2010

Being a Male Victim of Domestic Violence: Like Having No Genitals?

by Cara March 30, 2010

In the UK, the National Centre for Domestic Violence has launched a new campaign focusing on men who are the victims of domestic violence. Sounds great, right? The fact that, while women are mostly the victims of intimate partner violence, they are not the only victims of intimate partner violence, is still an issue not [...]

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Convicted Rapist Hopes His Victims Will Learn to Lock Their Doors

by Cara March 29, 2010

Trigger Warning for rape apologism and victim-blaming. Convicted rapist Daniel Katsnelson (pictured above), who has changed his name to Daniel Kaye since his rapes, recently made some rather disgusting comments about his victims in a pre-sentencing statement. He said that they should learn to lock their doors. Katsnelson indicated he hoped his victims could take [...]

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Trial for Officer Accused of Rape Invokes Victim-Blaming Myths

by Cara March 23, 2010

In Providence, Rhode Island, a police officer is on trial for allegedly raping an intoxicated woman that he had offered to drive home. Back in 2007, the woman alleges that Officer Marcus Huffman picked her up outside of a nightclub, after she had been refused admittance on the grounds that she was too intoxicated. She [...]

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Abusive Men Overestimate the Rate at Which Other Men Abuse

by Cara March 19, 2010

A new study has been released on the views held by men who have been known to commit intimate partner violence (IPV). While the full study is behind a pay wall, what the abstract and this report on the study (note: the accompanying image at the article may be triggering) tell us is incredibly interesting: [...]

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Judge Rules Daughters Must Have Overnight Visits with Sex Offender Father

by Cara March 18, 2010

Trigger Warning for discussions of child pornography and child sexual abuse. In Hobart, Australia, a family court has made a truly confounding and infuriating decision to require two girls to visit their father every other weekend, including an overnight stay — even though the father has been convicted on child pornography charges, the ruling also [...]

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UK Report: Honest Information Harms Rape Victims

by Cara March 16, 2010

In the UK, a recent government review on how rape cases are handled has come to some surprising and controversial conclusions about how the statistic that only 6% of reported rapes result in a conviction has been used: Baroness Stern’s independent report into how rape complaints are handled called for politicians and campaigners to stop [...]

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Critics Suggest Link Between Priest Celibacy and Sexual Abuse

by Cara March 15, 2010

Another round of allegations of sexual violence committed by Catholic priests has begun, this time centering in Germany. It is, of course, far from the first time that a culture of rape and silence within the Catholic Church has been exposed, though the problem rages on and denials as to the extent of the violence [...]

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Sexual Assault Leads to Exposure of Police Views on Trans* People

by Cara March 13, 2010

In a recent post, I mentioned a rape case in which a San Antonio police officer allegedly raped a trans woman while on duty. I also generally discussed the fear that a lot of trans* folks have of the police, based on a long history of profiling and abuse. A recent blog post over at [...]

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On Prison Rape and Complacency

by Cara March 12, 2010

Trigger Warning for descriptions of sexual violence and rape apologism. The NY Review of Books has published an article by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow about the enormous problem of prison rape in the U.S. and how to adequately address it (h/t). The authors describe in detail the sickening severity and tremendousness of the problem, [...]

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In Earthquake’s Aftermath, Haiti Experiences Rise in Sexual Violence

by Cara March 11, 2010

Via the Daily Beast comes some rather distressing if entirely unsurprising news. In the wake of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti, sexual violence against women is also on the rise, and beginning to turn into a crisis of its own. (Trigger Warning on the linked article.) On top of the catastrophic earthquake that has [...]

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