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Yes Let's Change Rape Culture
Men Can Stop Rape has a new ad campaign.I am loving this campaign after a lifetime of prevent-rape advice aimed only at women. Women can't change rape culture all by ourselves, that should be obvious. It's great to have a series of posters that let men know what they can do or not do. There are good men who would like to help. Other men need to be ( Read more... ) -
Remember Elevatorgate?
If you weren't aware of it at the time, there was a huge online war spanning multiple web sites over a woman's assertion that being propositioned in an elevator at 3 a.m. was "creepy" and that guys should stop hitting on all the women at atheist conferences. [Ironically she had earlier given a talk on this subject and this guy knew that. He also ( Read more... ) -
Rape Campaign Shows Men Who Respect Women
Finally, An Anti-Rape Campaign That Admits Men Are Sometimes Involved An article about the MyStrength project http://mystrength.org/5.0.html in California. A series of posters like this was created to reach young men.
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Some Ignorance in Your Holiday Stocking?
It would be nice if we could spend a tenth as much time examining why some men choose to rape women and figure out how to get them to stop as we do telling women the magical ways they can rape-proof themselves (which is not really possible). It would be a start, anyway. Binge drinking, straw man arguments and rape prevention (Feministing)Meanwhile ( Read more... ) -
Violent Criminals Get a Pass in the Drug War
Arresting people for assaults, beatings and robberies doesn't bring money back to police departments, but drug cases do in a couple of ways. First, police departments across the country compete for a pool of federal anti-drug grants. The more arrests and drug seizures a department can claim, the stronger its application for those grants ( Read more... ) -
Knuckle Draggers 'R' Us
Charming little Facebook group:You know she's playing hard to get when YOUR chasing her down an alleyway. Say it loud: I'm an illiterate rapist and proud!
I encourage everyone who is on Facebook to report it as violent and having sexual content.
