Cross-posted from Speaker’s Corner ________________________ TW for sexual assault and cover-up. You can file this under: why women don’t report sexual assaults.  When you see things like this, you think, “what’s the fucking point?”  When the police view your sexual assault as an inconvenience because it will mess up their crime statistics instead a problem that needs to be [...]

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Cross-posted at Speaker’s Corner . ______________________ On Tuesday, CBS News reported that their reporter, Lara Logan , had been brutally sexually assaulted and beaten in Tahrir square in Cairo in the immediate aftermath of the announcement that President Mubarak had stepped down.  There were a lot of responses that floated across the interwebs and throughout the media that were deplorable [...]

Cross-posted at Speaker’s Corner This weekend, on the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the conservative website RedState took up the argument that the enslaved in antebellum America are equivalent to fetuses in the womb:

Twice in our nation’s history, arrogant and power-mad Supreme Court Justices have declared that certain humans are exempt from the promise of the Declaration [...]

Crossposted at Speaker’s Corner . Let’s count how many total nominations there were for Writers Guild of America’s annual awards. And then we’ll count how many are women! Should be fun and instructive, right? The full list of nominees is over at Speaker’s Corner with the nominated women identified by their red names. Here’s the breakdown: There are [...]

Or something like that. According to Belmont (which is in Nashville), the coach resigned when her same-sex relationship came to light. Of course, as this article says , she was first dismissed by the university after disclosing to her players that she and her partner were expecting a child. And Belmont really, really, really wants you to [...]

Crossposted at Speaker’s Corner . From the AP (via MSNBC): Pregnant Fliers Can Easily Hide Condition from Airline This is literally the first line of the article:

If a woman really wants to get around the rules barring her from flying in late pregnancy, there’s little an airline can do to stop her.

OH NO! While I get that [...]

Cross-posted at Speaker’s Corner . Last week the New York Times reported that Ben Roethlisberger has returned to work. Remember the last time we heard from him? Yeah, it was a pleasant affair. From April 2010:

Within the last two years, there were first the allegations of sexual assault asserted in a civil lawsuit by a Reno, Nevada woman; then more [...]

This week’s TIME magazine has a shocking picture on the cover. An important picture. I am glad they chose to put it there. The managing editor explains why they chose this image in a short but concise piece (if you click through, you can see the picture there). At the beginning, he explains the image (which [...]

Crossed posted on my blog, Speaker’s Corner . In Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert describes her sister’s love of history and place. She says:

In Italian there is a seldom-used tense called the passato remoto, the remote past. You use this tense when you are discussing things in the far, far distant past, things that happened so long ago [...]