Tag Archives: victim-blaming
Keli Goff, champion of victim blamers everywhere
Tweet*Trigger warning* Yesterday Keli Goff dedicated her column space at Loop 21 and screen time on The Dylan Ratigan Show to championing victim blaming. And she did so while claiming she wasn’t actually blaming the victim, which makes other people think their own victim blaming attitude is OK. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]
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PA Liquor Control Board to teens: Rape is your fault, and your friends’ fault!
Originally posted in Community Blog
Tweet The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board recently released a new ad campaign, Control Tonight, that attempts to curb teen drinking. Their case? Don’t drink too much, or else you’ll get raped, but hey–that’s your fault, because we warned you! One ad features a young girl’s legs, underwear around the ankles, as she lays on what appears to [...]
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Katie Roiphe Downplays Sexual Harrassment in the NY Times
TweetShorter Katie Roiphe in this weekend’s New York Times? Sexual harassment = NBD. The casually titled article “In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks” could almost be mistaken for an etiquette column, until you get to the terrifying and unmistakably political message: shut up with all the sexual harassment claims, mmk? Roiphe has a [...]
Also tagged Anti-Feminism, assault, Harassment, Media Comments closed
I’ll get drunk if I want: Why victim-blaming is never a feminist act
TweetAs Miriam mentioned yesterday, The Frisky published a post called, “Why Being Drunk Is A Feminist Issue.” The more I think about alcohol and its relationship to sexual assault, the more I am convinced that binge drinking is a feminist issue—one that young women in the U.S. need to think about in addition to more [...]
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Binge drinking, straw man arguments and rape prevention