In thinking about Steubenville, thinking about my own experiences playing sports, thinking about athletes I’ve interviewed and know, I believe that a locker room left to its own devices will drift toward becoming a breeding ground for rape culture. You don’t need a Coach Reno or a Bob Knight to make that happen. You just need good people to say or do nothing.
The Verdict: Steubenville Shows the Bond Between Jock Culture and Rape Culture | The Nation
One more for the road. H/t @deBeauxOs1.
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Source: thenation.com
There is no rape culture in the U.S. Only dirty Third World countries full of brown people with funny names have rape culture.
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Steubenville Rape Defense: It’s Not Rape Because Drunken, Barely Conscious Girl Didn’t Say ‘No’ | Addicting Info
Pay attention, people: this is what rape culture looks like.
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Sir Patrick Stewart calls on ‘one million men’ to promise an end to violence against women | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
“This is action that might save a life today, or tonight, or tomorrow.”
Mr. Data? Engage.
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I cannot express how sad – and angry – it makes me to think that we still cannot ensure the safety of women and children in their own homes. Most people find the idea of violence against women – and sometimes, though rarely, against men - abhorrent, but do nothing to challenge it. More women and children, just like my mother and me, will continue to experience domestic violence unless we all speak out against it.
Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence | Society | The Guardian
Fire at will, Mr. Worf.
H/t Scott Dagostino.
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New Republican Idea: Punishing Rape Victims With Jail Time | The Raw Story
Republicans. And Democrats who do nothing to stop them.
Do I need to say any more?
When women get harassed on the street, or at a bar, or on their walk home from work, do you know what we think? We wonder, am I going to get out of this safely? Am I going to walk away from this? Where are my keys if I need to stab someone in the eye? Are there people on the street? Will they hear me? Which way will I run? Solar Plexus, Instep, Nose, Groin. I’m exaggerating, but only so slightly. Does it disturb you that we think like this? That we have to think like this?
![Look at that smile. Isn’t he adorable, folks? Don’t you just want to pinch his cheeks?
(NB: “yes, until his pea-brain pops out the top of his head” is NOT an acceptable answer.)
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Apparently the U.S., unlike India, has moved past its own backward history of victim-blaming
Re-frame the discourse
The “asking for it” excuse, in context
As many as 90% of the women in prison today [2008] for killing men had been battered by those men
Mr. Worf — lock phasers onto that misogynist](http://25.media.tumblr.com/bbe2be812e4e401243e4f122f948513a/tumblr_mgn42s2kil1qkq6pxo1_500.png)
Look at that smile. Isn’t he adorable, folks? Don’t you just want to pinch his cheeks?
(NB: “yes, until his pea-brain pops out the top of his head” is NOT an acceptable answer.)
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Apparently the U.S., unlike India, has moved past its own backward history of victim-blaming. Apparently, I am to believe, according to the New York Times and Nicholas Kristof, that it is India which must deal with its sexual violence. And the Good Mr. Kristoff and the New York Times know this because the US has dealt with its own sexual violence. It’s now in the past, judging from the smug authority of the Times.
Glass Houses: Rapes and Victim-Blaming in the Western World « Translation Exercises
(h/t Stephanie Guthrie and Sarah Barker)
Citizen, cyclist, father, diver, cheap-laugh aficionado, sanctimonious wanker, #BadJew. Thoughts are my own.
