My brother is a decent kid, and I love him, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s homophobic.

To his credit, he doesn’t want to be a homophobe...he’s a good, progressive boy raised by a progressive mom, living in a progressive area (San Francisco), and he has a lesbian sister (me) that he loves. He’d never beat up or tease a gay kid--he’s ( Read more... )

In case anyone else missed hearing about this before now ( Read more... )

"As Londoners and veterans of the railways, we all have a right to travel without fear of being inappropriately touched, physically threatened or spoken to in an intimidating manner. And this isn’t just a feminist issue, it’s a human one."

The fantastic blog, Londonist, posted this entry about street harassment in London today. Short but sweet, I ( Read more... )

( Theoretical question on rape )

A teacher at my school wrote this article about rape as a weapon of white supremacists(potential rape trigger warning): http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&

I was at a large house party about ten years ago with two (fairly large) male friends of mine. It was a house I didn’t know and the music was deafening and people were getting drunk and rowdy. I made a point to stay close to my friends.

( might be slightly triggering, better safe than sorry )

This was on the front page of the Sunday newspaper; I had rung up about twenty of them for people before I happened to look down and saw the big headline in bold, and nearly broke down in tears:

Rape victim: 'Morning after' pill deniedBy Carla McClain ( Read more... )

Right, im not usually one for mob-justice...BUT i found this story quite moving. It's centered on a woman being made a scapegoat for murder, after the death of a rapist at the hands of his victims.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1571407,00.html

So I was just browsing through the Guerrilla Girls newsletter when I saw this little statement:
THE LAW, FLORIDA STYLEWhen prosecutors showed Circuit Judge Gene Stephenson a photo of a middle-aged woman who had been beaten, kidnapped, raped and robbed he commented, “Why would he want to rape her? She doesn’t look like a day at the beach ( Read more... )

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