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Rape survivors exempted from disclosing counseling in security clearance applications
Rape survivors serving in the military and other Defense Department employees and contractors will no longer be forced to reveal whether they received mental health counseling when applying for positions requiring governnment security clearance. Bloomberg News reported on Friday that the ruling by the Office of Director of National Intelligence…
Gun Industry Profits Will Not Stop Rape
You are not a big man because you can scare a woman. Zerlina Maxwell has the right’s number on this whole push to sell guns by offering them as effective rape prevention: It’s a form of rape apology and denialism. As I noted before, it’s telling that the organization spearheading…
Seriously, why are they so obsessed with rape metaphors?
I’m not usually one to do this, but I’m going to put the image I’m talking about below the fold at the bottom of this post, because it’s so gross I don’t want to foul up the front page of Pandagon. And since we’re not really squeamish here, that’s saying…
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