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Tossing Around the R-Word Just Means They’re Desperate
When feminists talk about rape culture, we’re generally speaking about a culture that, while officially condemning rape, manages to offer protection and often support to rapists while vilifying victims. We also talk about a culture that minimizes rape by pretending it’s about uncontrollable lust instead of a desire to hurt and dominate.…
Who’s uncomfortable with the truth?
This weekend, there was a minor kerfuffle over yet another poorly sourced assertion that people evolved in just such a way as to uphold the meanest, ugliest, most essentialist gender roles the patriarchy ever produced. This time, it was over the shoddy theory that men and women evolved to constantly…
Just ’cause Jesus is involved doesn’t make it not rape culture
I feel like Captain Obvious pointing this out, but there’s so much confusion and defensiveness about religion and patriarchy out there, I’m going to have to say it: That there’s a bunch of rapist priests in the Catholic church and the Pope was involved in the cover-up should not be…
Bamboo Review: Yes Means Yes
If you read Savage Love this week, no doubt you were as haunted as I was by the letter written by an 18-year-old rape victim who is being re-victimized by the rape culture. Haunted, because her story is so common as to be mundane: Her ex-boyfriend rapes her, but of…
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