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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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Top 5 George Harrison Vocals

by Cara February 27, 2010

This past Thursday, February 25th, was George Harrison’s birthday. He would have turned 67. And with it, we mark the (admittedly probably intermittent) return of Gratuitous Beatles Blogging. I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the Quiet Beatle, but as I’ve begun an obsession with collecting vinyl records over these past several [...]

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Yes, Abuse Is Your Business

by Cara February 20, 2010

This video (sorry, embedding is disabled) is of Ewan McGregor on Good Morning America. The part of the video that I’m going to talk about (beginning at :38), discussing McGregor’s recent film made with Roman Polanski, is transcribed below: George Stephanopoulos: [Roman Polanski]‘s also of course going through his troubles right now, being held in [...]

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Book Review: Promises I Can Keep

by Cara February 15, 2010

I’m the kind of person who hoards books, and finds difficulty getting the the time to read them all within what most people would consider to be an even remotely reasonable timeframe. While that’s something I’m working on getting under control, the consequence is that I’m also the kind of person, who, if she ever [...]

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13-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Classmates Spread Nude Photos

by Cara December 2, 2009

Trigger Warning for discussions of suicide, descriptions of non-consensual sexual conduct, victim-blaming and slut-shaming The Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Times has printed the truly gut-wrenching, tragic story of a 13-year-old girl named Hope Witsell, who committed suicide after a photograph of her breasts, which she sent to a boy’s cell phone, was forwarded all over [...]

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The Today Show Uses Fear-Mongering to Demonize Midwives and Home Births

by Cara September 30, 2009

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy The embedded video above is a fairly recent segment from The Today Show on the rise in midwife-assisted home births. It’s called “The Perils of Midwifery,” and it’s a segment which, it should be noted, uses almost entirely men as reporters and experts. And [...]

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So What If Mackenzie Phillips Has a Book Deal?

by Cara September 28, 2009

My post about Mackenzie Phillips and the public reaction to her recent revelation that her father John Phillips raped her has been linked pretty widely at this point, and as a result I have received some rather obnoxious and outright disgusting comments (and emails). That’s not a complaint, at all — thank you for the [...]

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Trans Woman Murdered in Hollywood

by Cara September 26, 2009

Via Queen Emily, reports came in last week of yet another trans woman being murdered. Her name was Paulina Ibarra, she was 24-years-old, and she died in her apartment from stab wounds on August 28th. But her murder only made the news last week, when police identified a person of interest, named Jesus Catalan. Los [...]

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Rape Apologism and the Response to Mackenzie Phillips

by Cara September 24, 2009

Trigger Warning Yesterday on Oprah, Mackenzie Phillips, star from One Day At a Time, revealed that she was raped by her now-deceased father, John Phillips (left), from the Mamas and the Papas. This, after years of him supplying her with drugs from a very young age. The abuse continued for ten years, into her adulthood [...]

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50 Books for Problematic Times

by Cara August 3, 2009

About a month ago, Newsweek released a list of “50 Books For Our Times” — 50 books that open a window to the modern world in which we live. RMJ at Deeply Problematic reviewed this list, and noticed that, apparently, the modern world is remarkably white, male and straight. The writers on this list were, [...]

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