Sexual Assault

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• REPUBLICANS WHINING ABOUT PUBLIC REACTION TO THEIR ANTI-RAPE VOTE

  
  MADMIKESAMERICA — Authority: 137
  Youd think rape would be one issue Republicans would be smart enough not to make into a partisan issue, but no. They couldnt help themselves. These guys just get nuttier and nuttier by the minute. Unbelievably the GOP apparently thinks that it is OK to award huge contracts to companies that wont allow rape cases ...
  11 hours ago

• Religious Education Teacher gets 32 Months for Statutory Rape of 15-year-old Boy

  
  GlennSacks.com — Authority: 523
  If the case discussed in this article is any indication, maybe the law is starting to take statutory rape of boys by women a bit more seriously than in the recent past ( Daily Mail , 12/3/09).  Indeed, the article itself may also suggest that.  It strikes just about the right tone and places the blame squarely ...
  12 hours ago

• ‘My Strength’ Posters

  
  Uplift Magazine — Authority: 426
  I came across the My Strength website via the comments on this piece on the F Word. My Strength is a Californian initiative (though it has now spread further), aimed at men, that strives to promote youth empowerment, gender equality and healthy relationships.I found the My Strength campaign posters (available on the ...
  18 hours ago

• Pedophilia vs. Murder – which is worse?

  
  Avitable — Authority: 539
  From this story in The Detroit News: A 15-year-old who knelt before his father and tearfully apologized for inappropriate contact he admitted having with a 3-year-old relative was minutes later marched naked from the house by the father and executed with a bullet to the head, witnesses said in court today. At ...
  23 hours ago

• Rape: The Method. by Josh Brorby

  
  Feministe — Authority: 675
  Josh Brorby is a student at the University of North Dakota. He recently wrote an op/ed for the student newspaper which is essentially a sexual assault how-to manual. Trigger warning for that link and for what follows. Josh Brorby begins: I now present to you not only a comprehensible guide for the man’s ...
  1 day ago

• Open Season

  
  Feministing — Authority: 728
  Check out this compelling short of a documentary about the prevalence of sexual assault committed against indigenous women, as well as the failure of the law enforcement system to convict their attackers. (Trigger warning.)
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• Sexual Assault On Campus: Schools Dont Always Offer Much Assistance

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 809
  Being raped or sexually assaulted should not happen at institutions of higher learning. Unfortunately, many young women learn that their colleges and universities are unequipped to prevent sexual violence - and reporting the action could prompt a wall of silence. ( Image of Mallory Shear-Heyman by Jim Lo Scalzo via ...
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• WTF of the Day: Cheetah is the younger Cougar.

  
  Feministing — Authority: 728
  Is this really the best you can do, Spencer Morgan? The New York Observer writer had a pretty damn misogynist piece on yet another nickname animalizing single women: the cheetah. This oh-so-clever creation is supposed to be the younger-than-cougar straight single woman who scours bars all night looking for men to ...
  1 day ago

• Decade Retrospective: The Top 10 Stories

  
  Empty the Bench — Authority: 501
  By Zachariah Blott In reality, the top 10 stories of any decade are the 10 champions, but I’m looking at stories beyond that. Stories that carried on for a long time, carried a sign of changing times, or carried into the news world outside of NBA fans. Here are 10 from the 00’s you probably remember or ...
  1 day ago

• SOWwatch

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 492
  Seriously. Helena Guergis, the Conservative Minister of State for the Status of Women? Dont make me laugh. And, with that, a new feature kids, right here on Broadsides! The adventures of Party Girl Guergis in her defence of womens status which, judging by her partys record, is to be lowered at every opportunity. ...
  2 days ago

• Police release sketch of sexual assault suspect

  
  Crime Time — Authority: 139
  Police in Burleson hope you know who the man is in this sketch. Hes a suspect in the sexual assault of a woman Friday at a rest stop on northbound Interstate 35 in Burleson.  Hes described as in his mid- to late-20s, about 5-feet, 10-inches tall. He has short blond buzz-cut hair, light-colored eyes, and ...
  2 days ago

• Study on Sexual Assault of Native Women Published

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 434
  From Minn. Public Radio via Dan: Duluth, Minn. — A three-year Duluth study finds Native American women, victimized by sexual assault, tend to get lost and overlooked in the legal system. A coalition of victim advocacy groups and public safety agencies undertook the study. They wanted to address problems related ...
  2 days ago

• Idiot Advice Columnist Calls Raped Girl Victim of Her Own Judgment

  
  Lemondrop.com — Authority: 649
  Filed under: Sex , News , Rant , Douchemap We guess theyll let anybody write advice columns these days. Take, for instance, Amy Dickinson, who recently chastised a rape victim in her syndicated Tribune Media column "Ask Amy," calling the young woman a "victim of her own judgment." The ... Read more   ...
  2 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• So You Think You Can Douche

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 137
  I believe that it’s a well established fact that Senate Republicans are the New York Yankees of douchebaggery: the 2009 World Champions. But sometimes, they find a way to lower the bar further than any of us thought possible. Just such an event occurred on October 6th. The Franken Amendment to the 2010 Defense ...
  2 days ago

• NYO Fail, Part the First: In Which I Discuss Double Standards

  
  Blog of the Moderate Left — Authority: 124
  This completely awful New York Observer article has been making the rounds on the twittersphere today, with most of my feminist and ally friends observing that the article boils down to, as Spencer Ackerman says , “ adult women should not ever have sex with any men ever, and especially not with us.” And ...
  3 days ago

• Pastries Wont Solve Campus Sexual Assault

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 622
  A handful of deans and professors, myself, another student, and a physician sat around the board table enjoying Au Bon Pain pastries, compliments of the Yale Dean’s Office. It was 8 a.m. at the biweekly meeting of the Yale Sexual Harassment Grievance Board, which hears informal complaints of sexual harassment and ...
  3 days ago

• Campus Sexual Assault: A New Report and Project

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 422
  During their college careers, 20 to 25 percent of women face sexual assault, and many campuses aren’t doing enough to keep students safe or offering them appropriate avenues for reporting the crime.This week the Center for Public Integrity released a report called “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search ...
  3 days ago

• Man turns down plea deal child sex assault case

  
  Austin Legal — Authority: 127
  An Austin man accused of sexually assaulting a child while his wife held the girl down, an act captured on video, is set for trial in January after he turned down a plea bargain today. Prosecutors offered Adrian Navarro, 30, below, a deal that would send him to prison for 50 years during a hearing before state ...
  3 days ago

• ‘Christmas Voices’ – A music, dance & poetry benefit, 5 December – Benefit

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 144
  You are warmly invited to an exhilarating evening of music, song, poetry and dance ‘Christmas Voices’ a fundraiser for Black Women’s Rape Action Project & Women Against Rape Venue: Tottenham Chances, 399 Tottenham High Road, N17 Time: 8 til late Entrance: £5/£2.50 on the door Transport: RAIL Bruce Grove ...
  3 days ago

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