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Alleged Victim Slut-Shamed, Rape Case Thrown Out

by Cara January 15, 2010

A particular rape case has been making the rounds lately, for its especially ludicrous and misogynistic outcome. In short, a U.K. woman made allegations of a gang rape by five perpetrators. The case made it to court. And then, the judge ordered the jury to return a not guilty verdict when “evidence” was presented — [...]

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Iowa “Pro-Family” Group Protests Governor’s Support for the Transgender Day of Remembrance

by Cara January 7, 2010

Trigger Warning for transphobia In Iowa, a so-called “pro-family” group of hate-mongers have put out a statement admonishing the Governor for doing the absolute bare minimum in terms of acknowledging the state’s transgender residents, by signing a declaration recognizing the Transgender Day of Remembrance last November. Governor Culver was so lackluster about proclaiming it wrong [...]

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New Report About Sexual Violence on College Campuses

by Cara December 10, 2009

The Center for Public Integrity has released a three-part report on sexual violence on college campuses, and the response of administrators to such allegations. Part one talks about the culture of secrecy surrounding sexual assault proceedings. Part two talks about the barriers to reporting sexual assault on campus, and how such reports are actively discouraged. [...]

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Judge Refers to Convicted Rapist’s Actions as “Rough Play”

by Cara October 17, 2009

Trigger Warning I’ve written before about Fernando Manuel Alves, a pub owner who was convicted of brutally raping a drugged and unconscious woman, and the judge who decided not to send him to jail because he deemed the rape a crime of opportunity. Now, via Broadsides, we’ve got the actual decision, and what it contains [...]

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Attorney Uses “Boys Will Be Boys” Defense in Alleged Sexual Assault

by Cara October 16, 2009

Last week, a freshman at the University of Maryland allegedly gained access to a dorm that was not his own, entered a female student’s room and woke her up by trying to kiss her. He also twice tried to put his hands down her shorts. When the victim screamed, he allegedly ran across the hallway [...]

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Teacher Groomed 13-Year-Old Girl Through the Internet, Raped Her

by Cara October 1, 2009

This case is appalling on multiple levels. In the UK, 24-year-old man — a man who worked as a teacher — groomed a 13-year-old girl through the internet using a 15-year-old female alter ego, and then met her in person and raped her. After Matthew Knott raped her, the girl reported the attack, and he [...]

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Some Thoughts on Tucker Max

by Cara September 8, 2009

Over at Broadsheet, the marvelous Sady writes about the Tucker Max phenomenon. Tucker Max is an asshole who makes money from writing books about his (supposed) drunken sexual conquests — and by “drunken sexual conquests,” I mean, “the encounters as he describes them often include coercion, cajoling, heavy intoxication or some element of non-consent and [...]

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Crisis Pregnancy Centers Regularly Engage in Coercive Adoption Practices

by Cara August 31, 2009

Almost two years ago, I wrote about a distressing and eye-opening book called The Girls Who Went Away, which is about the women who surrendered their children for adoption under coercion in the years before legal abortion and when single or unwed parenting was ostracized. Most of the women who surrendered their children were threatened, [...]

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Does a Sexual Position Indicate Consent?

by Cara August 28, 2009

Posts have appeared recently at both Abyss2Hope and SAFER on a rape trial in which the most egregious rape apologism was committed not by a defense attorney, who can and probably should be expected to engage in such behavior, but the judge. Even worse, the judge interrogated the victim not during the course of the [...]

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Defense Attorney Calls Rape Victims “Whores,” and Worse

by Cara August 27, 2009

Trigger Warning Every single time I argue that a rape apologist defense attorney has hit a new low, I speak too soon. This time, the evidence that there was still further to sink just came at a particularly rapid speed, and with a particularly hard impact. Outside Charleston, West Virginia, a defense attorney defended a [...]

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