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Fraternity Roofie Conspiracy
This. In some corners of the rape denial universe it is popular to say that this doesn’t happen, that all reports of drugged drinks are merely voluntary overconsumption. There are two kinds of people...
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California’s Affirmative Consent Law: Beyond The Bullshit
A federal judge once said to me, when I was just a young’un, that this is how you read a statute: “from left to right; stop at punctuation.” You don’t know what this thing says unless you read the...
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About Nungesser: The Man Emma Sulkowicz Reported For Rape
I already wrote about Emma Sulkowicz. She reported a man to Columbia University for raping her, but the panel cleared him. She went to the police, but they treated her poorly and did nothing. Then...
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Jennifer Lawrence Says Don’t Look At The Pictures
Vanity Fair has an interview out wherein Jennifer Lawrence addresses the stolen nude photos. She says that it was a sex crime, and she addressed the complicity of everyone who looks: “Anybody who...
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Jennifer Lawrence Does Not Owe Us
As people react to the Jennifer Lawrence Vanity Fair article that I blogged about yesterday, I’ve noticed a troubling theme. People have not quite criticized her — I’m mostly talking about comment...
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Draining The Swamp: Alcohol and Agency
The way to handle the relationship between alcohol and alcohol-facilitated rape isn’t to adopt some prohibition-lite approach that shames people (women; it’s usually women that get shamed for pleasures...
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Ghomeshi: The Developing Story, And Predator Theory Observations
Folks who have Canadians in their social circle are likely awash in it, and folks for whom Canadian media is not on the radar screen may have mostly or entirely missed it: CBC fired one of its biggest...
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Neutral Evil: The Problem With Refusing To Decide
Some ideas are powerful in human history, and keep coming up from people with very different belief systems in very different times and places: “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor,...
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One, Two, A Thousand Rape Walls: A Journalistic Effort To Collect Anonymous...
At Brown, when there was no place else to tell the story, they wrote it on a wall. That was 1990, and now almost a quarter century later we’ve had a national moment of recognition that campuses...
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The Power Of Speaking Out Is Cumulative
To quote Brandeis, sunlight is the best of disinfectants. Rape happens in the dark and serial rapists depend on dark corners, both metaphorical and literal, to do that they do and get away with it....
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