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Italian priest’s Christmas flyer: Women incite domestic violence with cold dinners
A Catholic priest in Italy has created a firestorm by claiming that women bring violence on themselves by serving cold food and dressing provocatively. Father Piero Corsi of Liguria sparked outrage after members of his congregation posted his Christmas bulletin onto Facebook. The flyer, entitled “Women and femicide – healthy…
A Timeline of a Wingnut Gleefest at a Horrible Act of Violence
So, I had a weird night. Usually, wingnuts’ online barely-concealed pleasure at hearing about nasty violence towards women and their tendency to see everything, even horrible crime, as an opportunity to score points rolls off my back. But yesterday afternoon, a small story broke on local media and started to…
When “Men’s Rights” Narratives Kill
The so-called “men’s rights” movement is very intent on convincing the public that domestic violence is overblown by feminists, and that many to most victims are lying to the police and the courts, who take them at their word because the justice system is supposedly in the thrall of the…
Allowing criminals to legally possess firearms drives ‘unprecedented’ U.S gun violence: report
Weak state gun laws that allow for some criminals to possess firearms legally is contributing to the high rate of gun violence in the country, according to a new report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Mass shootings bring public attention to the exceptionally high…
Wisconsin spa shooting followed tragic script of domestic violence
Wisconsin spa killings: Shooting followed tragic script of domestic violence (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) The circumstances involved in a mass killing outside Milwaukee on Sunday correspond to what many already know about domestic partner abuse: The signs are often as clear as day that the situation will one…
NY high school criticized for ‘Chris Brown and Rihanna’ blackface domestic violence skit
An unvetted “iReport” on CNN has drawn criticism toward a Waverly, New York, high school where white students donned blackface for a skit spoofing the Chris Brown-Rihanna domestic violence incident from 2009. The report, posted by Matthew Dishler on Monday, came with a photo of three unidentified Waverly High School…
Stop Concern Trolling Victims
With a plodding inevitability, the thread below a post I wrote about the mentality of abusers turned into an ugly fight debating the mentality of victims. Asking sexist, domineering men to fuck off is apparently too tall an order for this world; the only people who can ever be asked…
Iraqi Kurdistan’s ban on female circumcision, domestic violence met with spotty implementation
In June 2011, Iraqi Kurdistan passed a landmark law that criminalised female circumcision and domestic violence, but one year on, activists remain frustrated with its patchwork implementation. In what is a conservative society even by Middle East standards, the passage of the law last year was hailed by rights groups…
The abuser lobby goes mainstream
The abuser lobby, which ridiculously calls itself the “men’s rights movement”, was handed a massive victory today by the Republican-controlled House, who passed a watered down version of the Violence Against Women Act. Prior to this year, even Republicans by and large felt that tacitly endorsing moderate levels of wife-beating…
In House speech, Rep. Gwen Moore recounts being raped
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) on Wednesday recalled her own experiences of being sexually abused during a speech in favor the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. “Violence against women is as American as apple pie,” she said on the House floor. “I know, not only as a legislator, but…
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