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Anthony Weiner, All Kidding Aside
The way the common political “sex scandal” gets framed is of no use to me. The dominant political discourse reinterprets the facts and people’s reactions to them along the lines of the existing mores,...
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Taking Statutory Rape Seriously
Imagine the following rape statute: “If a person over the age of twenty-one years has sexual contact constituting oral-genital or genital-genital contact with a minor under the age or fourteen years,...
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Stonewalling Rape: Police Can Investigate, But Will They?
One thing that comes up over and over in discussing rape and how to stop it is the role of the criminal justice system. Advocates for survivors are adamant that survivors don’t have to report and...
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Miley Cyrus, Celebrity Rapist?
Here’s what she said: “You know, everyone’s a little bit gay,” she told the crowd. “It’s the truth. Everyone’s gay, all it takes is one cocktail. And if that doesn’t work, sprinkle something in their...
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Off To College Is Too Late For The Consent Talk
I am a fan, and a friend, of both Amanda Hess and Heather Corinna, and it should come as no surprise that I think this piece in Slate is really useful. However, the preface to Amanda’s interview...
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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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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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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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