Tag Archives: Violence Against Women
This is what piling on Rihanna looks like
TweetWhen Ann Friedman recently wrote a great piece about the risk in piling on Rihanna for reconciling with Chris Brown, I nodded along, despite my own personal feelings about the case. It’s really hard to simultaneously advocate for survivors of violence and encourage women to leave, when Rihanna and Chris Brown’s reconciliation is so high [...]
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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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Breaking: House finally passes the VAWA
TweetThe House finally passed the VAWA in a vote of 286-138. The bill now heads to the president’s desk for his signature. Tweet
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5 Reasons the Chris Brown and Rihanna SVU episode was both awesome and bad
TweetWarning: Spoilers! Last night, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit premiered a new episode “ripped from the headlines,” with a story line that was obviously supposed to be a take off of Chris Brown and Rihanna. A singer named Micha Charles and her boyfriend, hip hop star Caleb Bryant get into an argument when Bryant [...]
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One million men, one million promises to help end gender-based violence