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23-Year-Old Woman Shot For Knocking on Neighbor’s Door

Trigger Warning
A Notre Dame student was shot in the arm by a neighbor this week.
Regrettably, sexism pervades even the shortest of news briefs, and many news readers’ comments.
A 28-year-old neighbor shot this student while she was outside his door because her knocking convinced him he had to employ violence to protect his family. No arrests have been made.
User comments on these news stories express that the violence against this woman was her fault, because she had been to a club and was intoxicated. If that isn’t victim-blaming, I don’t know what is!

Vintage homophobia? Or valuable historical perspective?

This weekend I tried to find that infamous January 1988 Cosmo article that declared heterosexual women safe from HIV/AIDS, especially when having sex in the missionary position. I found many blogs and articles that reference the piece, but the full text article, as well as any abstract, is unaccounted for in JSTOR, Lexus/Nexus and ProQuest. I’m convinced there must be some libraries in America that have the original hard copies, possibly in the form of bound periodicals, but I haven’t tracked one down yet.
Has anyone out there ever seen this dangerous yet elusive Cosmo piece? I can’t even find an author or article name for it!
But I did stumble upon some other heartbreaking articles about the first decade ...

This weekend I tried to find that infamous January 1988 Cosmo article that declared heterosexual women safe from HIV/AIDS, especially when having sex in the missionary position. I found many blogs and articles that reference the piece, ...