The Army announced Tuesday that a sergeant first class assigned to an assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for sexual assault. [CNN] THE contagion of news about sexual assault in the U.S. military, with the latest news out of Fort Hood, should wake everyone up to a cancer on our Armed [...]
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Ariel Castro: Never Accept a Ride with a Stranger
THE moral of the Ariel Castro abduction tale is an old warning given to most young girls from their parents or guardians. Onil and Pedro Castro were both booked, but only Ariel Castro was charged with kidnapping and rape. Ariel Castro’s documented history is harrowing: A 2005 court filing obtained by the Cleveland newspaper says [...]
Castro: “I am a Sexual Predator. I Need Help.”
The court ordered him held on $6 million bond. [...] The report, obtained by Cleveland TV station WKYC, sketches the outlines of the victims’ descent into hell. It is rife with details of beatings, chained confinement, starvation and death threats. It alleges that Castro impregnated Knight five times, forced her to starve for weeks at [...]
Air Force to Female Sexual Assault Victims: “Submit”
Rape-crisis counselors sometimes advise, like the Air Force brochure does, that there are circumstances whereby fighting back against an assailant is a bad idea. Purchia doesn’t dispute that. “You can always identify some circumstances,” he said, “but as a general rule research indicates and it’s generally understood that fighting back often can fend off the [...]
The Feminist Comedy of Louis C.K.: “We’re the No. 1 Threat to Women!”
LAST YEAR when Daniel Tosh got in trouble for a rape joke supposedly directed at a female in his audience, Louis C.K. tweeted “your show makes me laugh every time I watch it. And you have pretty eyes.” All hell then broke loose. Louis C.K.’s new HBO comedy “Oh My God” is a long way [...]
Women: Join the Military and Increase Your Chances of Being Raped
According to an NPR report, citing the Pentagon: (emphasis added throughout) About 19,000 sex crimes take place in the military each year. … Many of the victims are male, but men in the service face the same risk of sexual assault as civilian men do. It’s a different story for women. Women who join the [...]
News Desk — Steubenville Rape Verdict: GUILTY. [Video] *Update*
THE VICTIM testified on Saturday, not remembering much of the rape, because she was basically incapacitated when the teen thugs and the so-called “rape crew” decided to humiliate and attempt to destroy a young girl’s life. I’ve added the video above, which is the report from CNN’s Candy Crowley. It seems very discordant to me [...]
Steubenville Rape Trial: “How Do You Feel On A Dead Girl?”, He Laughed.
“How do you feel on a dead girl?” – Guy in leaked rape video AS FAR as I can tell, it’s very doubtful that anything would have come of the rape if tenacious crime blogger Alexandria Goddard hadn’t blown the story wide, which got the attention of the New York Times. The whole disgusting spectacle [...]
2008 Princeton Study Just Leaked Reports 1 in 6 Female College Students Sexually Assaulted
More than 120 out of 809 female undergraduate students answered affirmatively to the following statement in a Princeton University survey: “A man put his penis into my vagina, or someone inserted fingers or objects without my consent.” That’s one in six. – Wishing rape on campus away won’t make it so WHEN REPUBLICANS recently tried [...]
V-Day is Here: One Billion Rising Will Walk! Dance! Rise!
A message from V-Day founder, Eve Ensler: Find a Rising near you here. The official Break the Chain video: One more time, the basic information from One Billion Rising and “Break the Chain”: ‘Break the Chain’ aims to raise awareness around the world about V-Day’s fastest escalating global campaign to date, ONE BILLION RISING. The [...]
‘Man Prayer’: On February 14, One Billion Rising (VIDEOS)
It shouldn’t be necessary, the efforts required to get people to pay serious attention to the violence done daily to women and girls around the world. The horror should have “one billion” and more demanding it stop, should shame billions out of our silence. It’s only a few days before V-Day’s One Billion Rising action [...]
‘Trigger Warning,’ a Short Film From One Billion Rising
One week from today V-Day’s One Billion Rising global day of action will occur. From a February 6 emailing: (emphasis added) No matter where you are, in a week we will rise together as one. With the addition of Laos, Liberia, Monaco, and Palestine, we are now up to 197 countries and territories taking part [...]
Tea Partier Ted Cruz Plays Sean Hannity and It Turns Into a Train Wreck
THIS IS what happens when a Tea Party politician listens to too much wingnut radio, then tries to mimic one of the hosts. It ends up in a train wreck, which certainly was the case with Senator Ted Cruz when he tried to corner Chuck Hagel, but ended up causing a mess for himself. Hagel [...]
One in Three Women Will Be Beaten or Raped: One Billion Rising Works to ‘Break the Chain’ (VIDEO)
You might want to wait to watch the video, and read the background first, and so better understand what’s going on in “Break the Chain.” Or maybe, do it the other way around, and let the singing and dancing, and the words, give you some energy and motivation to consider ways to respond. Whatever, consider [...]
‘A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year’: Rebecca Solnit on Violence Against Women
There are a lot of people who still don’t understand the basics of living female in a male dominated world. One very real piece of that reality is about a “pattern of violence” which Rebecca Solnit’s article considers. Snippets from that essay follow. Read the entire thing at Tom Dispatch, A Rape a Minute, a [...]
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