Tag Archives: victim-blaming
Five insidious victim-blaming tactics being used against Halle Berry
TweetOn Thanksgiving Halle Berry’s current boyfriend apparently fought with and badly bruised the face of Halle Berry’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her child. If you’d like more information about the situation, here is a summary of everything that happened. As dramatic and concerning as these developments are (I feel bad for pretty much everyone [...]
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Rape culture rampant in Missoula, Montana and everywhere else too
Tweet**Trigger warning** A couple weeks ago, the Justice Department launched a federal investigation into the handling of sexual assault cases in Missoula, Montana. The town has seen 80 reported rapes in the last three years–including 11 cases involving students and accusations against several Grizzlies football players–but local officials say that’s typical for a college town [...]
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Anti-Feminist Victim Blamer in my own backyard
TweetSo I’m sitting in Business Associations class Wednesday night pretending to listen to the professor talk about tort liability (just kidding, I was really paying attention!) and I get a Facebook message from a like-minded law school classmate. The message says that the law school’s Federalist Society is having an event the next day called, [...]
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Feministing Year in Review: Maya’s Top Picks
TweetOne of my favorite things about writing for Feministing is getting to discuss the issues I care about with a diverse group of incredibly smart ladies. And I think that some of the best posts from the last year have come when we’ve made that convo public–tackling an issue and teasing apart the nuances together. [...]
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This week in victim-blaming: 11-year-old gang-rape survivor as seductive “spider”