rape culture

A Crime of Opportunity

by Cara August 20, 2009

Trigger Warning Three years ago in B.C., Canada, a woman woke up in the bed of the man in the image to the left. She was bleeding and bruised, and though she remembered going out for a night on town, she didn’t remember how she got in this bed, or what had happened to her. [...]

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Man Allegedly Rapes Girlfriend Live on Webcam

by Cara June 4, 2009

Trigger Warning It seems that as soon as I think I’ve been doing this long enough that nothing can shock me anymore, the people of this world get even more repulsive. Case in point: a man in Arizona was just arrested for raping his girlfriend while she was unconscious, and streaming the rape live via [...]

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Defense Attorney Argues That No Doesn’t Always Mean No

by Cara April 22, 2009

Via the Hand Mirror (h/t Lauredhel), I came across a story this morning about a line of questioning used by a New Zealand defense attorney in cross-examining a woman who alleged that a taxi driver attempted to rape her: After a long cross-examination, the taxi driver’s lawyer, Letizea Ord, put it to the complainant [that [...]

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Actual Rape Victim Jailed for “False Report”

by Cara April 3, 2009

I just came across this story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (h/t), and I am absolutely fuming.  A woman was raped at gunpoint while working for a convenience store, and reported her rape — as, you know, cops, the government, and well-meaning people are always encouraging her and other rape victims to do.  Her rape was [...]

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Pulling the Plug on Rape Culture One Word at a Time — Cara’s WAM Presentation

by Cara March 31, 2009

On Sunday, as many of you know — and a few of you were actually there! — I moderated and participated in a session at WAM called Pulling the Plug on Rape Culture One Word at a Time with three absolutely amazing and fabulous co-presenters, Marcella Chester of Abyss2Hope, Ashley Burczak of the SAFER blog, [...]

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Observing and Reporting Rape Culture at Work

by Cara March 23, 2009

Watching random music videos on TV last night, this commercial for the new Seth Rogen film Observe and Report kept playing over and over again.  The basis of the film seems to be that Seth Rogen plays a quirky (according to IMDB, bi-polar — so yay, we can likely expect lots of “jokes” mocking disability [...]

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When a Man is the Victim: A Second Study in Rape Apology

by Cara March 20, 2009

I’ve previously done an in depth analysis of victim-blaming and rape denial, and how it varies and how it stays the same, in a case of rape where a man was the victim of a female assailant.   After seeing this video at Sociological Images, along with the questions Lisa poses about the attitudes towards [...]

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Rape Culture and Its Incredible Prevalence: A Strangely Optimistic Analysis

by Cara March 10, 2009

When I first read the news at Feministe that a full one-quarter of people surveyed in England and Wales said that a woman is fully or partly to blame for a rape if she wore sexy clothing, my first response was, as it should have been, complete and total dismay.  It wasn’t surprise — no, [...]

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Former Detective Accused of Raping Women Who Sought Police Help

by Cara March 4, 2009

Very Strong Trigger Warning The Daily Mail reports on former North Wales detective Timothy Michael Jones, who is alleged to have raped two different women who were seeking the help of the police at the time.  The highlighted rape is below, and the description is graphic: The woman, a heroin addict, had been called to [...]

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Thoughts on the RapeLay Video Game

by Cara February 13, 2009

Severe Trigger Warning Amazon.com was recently caught by the Belfast Times selling a Japanese video game called RapeLay. The entire objective of the game is to rape women with varying levels of violence — sometimes stalking them first, sometimes using gang rape scenarios, and sometimes forcing them into abortions afterward. One website review describes “tears [...]

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