Tag Archives: victim-blaming
Telling women to get a gun is not rape prevention
TweetTrigger Warning On Tuesday night, I appeared on Hannity in a segment framed around the idea that giving women guns is the solution to ending rape. I was on with Independent Women’s Forum’s Gayle Trotter who recently made the point that women need guns for self defense from rape and gun violence prevention is infringing [...]
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Rihanna going back to Chris Brown doesn’t make her a “bad girl”
TweetI’ve noticed a theme emerging in the mainstream media of late. Namely, the idea that singer Rihanna is a “bad girl.” Yes, she has an album called, “A Good Girl Gone Bad,” and certainly is living the “rock star” lifestyle of late night partying and traveling all over the world, but all too often these [...]
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Project Unspoken Part 2: “There is nothing that you can do to ask for it.”
TweetRecently I posted a terrific video project created by Caleb Peng called Project Unspoken – out of Emory University – which interviewed a number of young people about harassment and violence against women. Here’s Part 2 which interviews more folks asking them whether they know someone who has been the victim of sexual assault. It’s a powerful [...]
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This week in victim-blaming: 11-year-old gang-rape survivor as seductive “spider”
TweetTwo years ago, an 11-year-old Cleveland, Texas girl was gang-raped by 20 young men. The crime was recorded on cellphones and circulated amongst students at the local school before finally coming to the attention of the police. And since then plenty of allies have stepped forward to rally around the “real victims”: the rapists. First [...]
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This is what piling on Rihanna looks like