#research: Study on Rape of Youth Age 12 and Younger Responded to...
Study on Rape of Youth Age 12 and Younger Responded to With Victim-Blaming Rhetoric Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual violence against children and adolescents, as well as victim-blaming and...
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“Asking for it” padaviya: There’s nothing like science for giving that objective, white-coat flavoured legitimacy to your prejudices, so it must have been a great day for Telegraph readers when they...
View Article#vivelafeminism: Rape, abortion and the fight for women’s rights in Turkey
In Turkey, outside big cities, social life concentrates on coffee houses, that is, if you are a man. This week, the customers of a coffee house in a village in the Mediterranean region saw a young...
View Article#womenstories: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: A Magdalene Laundry survivor...
On the washingtontimes: It was December of 1946 as the harsh winds of a Baltimore winter howled outside of the ancient dining hall where twelve year-old Patricia Noel sat struggling to hold back the...
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All three of the women who accused Paul Nungesser declined Cathy Young’s interview requests… understandably. Young resorts to the most basic, sexist code words and depictions typically used against...
View Article#todayin: frustration: if every contradictory argument about rape culture was...
This is perfect. And by “perfect”, I mean, impossibly accurate and frustrating. And by “impossibly accurate and frustrating”, I mean that it makes want to scratch my eyes out, pull all my hair out,...
View Article#maleficentmisogyny: School asks girls to wear tights for ‘safeguarding’
Yesterday it emerged that a school in Hartlepool has sent letters home to parents that asked girls to wear tights to ‘protect their modesty’ and make sure they are ‘properly safeguarded on their way to...
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#todayin: rape culture: ‘Tis the season for “don’t get raped” advice (by...
#todayin: rape culture: ‘Tis the season for “don’t get raped” advice (by @Elliehutch_ on @thefworduk) It’s that time of year again, the Christmas lights are on, the shops are heaving and we need to...
View Article#womenslives: “I’ve never seen a poster giving tips to stop me being...
The dark, lurking horror of parenting girls (and what we’re teaching them about their bodies). @FeministIre (emphasis added, as always): So, with this in mind what are we teaching girls about that? Are...
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#guestpost: The difference between emotional and psychological abuse against...
In the United States alone, more than 20 people get abused by their partner every minute. In Ireland, one in five women has been abused by their partner. While most reported forms of domestic abuse are...
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