On Deciding What Counts: Elizabeth Ellen and What Makes A VictimMallory Ortberg responds to a victim-blaming essay by Elizabeth Ellen regarding two recent stories of rape and statutory rape in the literary community. (see http://gawker. ( Read more... )

Must read--feminists prank Playboy with a creative consensual party guide that was popular even when people thought it was really Playboy. Maybe Playboy should run it for real ( Read more... )

THIS: A Poem By Patricia Lockwood Seriously, brilliant work. Must read. TW: rape culture.

http://jezebel.com/5932129/heres-how-you-deal-with-sexual-harassment-at-a-sci+fi-convention

Last month, writer Genevieve Valentine was harassed at Readercon (a science fiction/fantasy convention) by a man named René Walling, a ( Read more... )

With thanks to my friend Mari Adkins for passing this on:

“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct “no.” We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, ( Read more... )

Trigger Warning: A satirical fan letter from the point of view of an appreciative rapist to anti-abortion conservative politicians who want to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest and have been saying all manner of insane things about rape and pregnancy.

A Fan Letter To Certain Conservative Politicians

Brilliant!

http://studentactivism.net/2012/07/12/for-daniel-tosh-actually-assaulting-women-is-comedy/Read more... )

http://feministing.com/2012/07/11/daniel-tosh-jokes-that-woman-in-audience-should-be-raped-at-stand-up-show/Read more... )

I've been grieving for an old friend who recently died and still reacting to the aftermath of my husband's car accident and our new one-car status ( Read more... )

Brilliant and funny satire of advice to women about rape: How To Not Get Stung By Bees.

LOVING THIS, you'll want to pass it on. :)