Rape Culture is Not a Left/Right Issue

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Sunday February 09, 2014 · 1:08 PM PST

2014/02/09 · 13:08

Rape Culture isn't a left/right issue; it is a cultural one. As a culture, we seem inclined to disbelieve a survivor because of the clothes she wears, the time of day she was walking outside her own home, whether or not she was drunk, and/or her sexual past. No such burden is ever placed on the accused rapist. Instead, he is defended vigorously by his supporters, leaving the victim feeling alone and isolated, and in many cases, is denied justice.

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Monday December 17, 2012 · 7:35 AM PST

2012/12/17 · 07:35

Once again, I find myself to be bombarded by the media about the mental state of some soul going over the edge and destroying lives. Once again, I find myself being angered by the assumptions being made about people like me. That's not to say that there aren't mentally ill people with violent tendencies. They do exist. But here's the thing; not all of us with mental illness are likely to turn on other people. Many of us turn inwards on ourselves.

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 10:51 AM PST

2012/11/07 · 10:51

Yes, I know you're all upset about the fact that President Obama won re-election, and that Democrats kept the Senate. You know who you are; people I know from real life or in passing on Facebook. I know you're probably thinking that I'm gloating right now (and maybe I am...just a little), but I'm not writing about that in this diary. I'm here to console, and perhaps explain why, when I cast my ballot yesterday for the President.

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Friday January 28, 2011 · 8:51 AM PST

2011/01/28 · 08:51

So Mother Jones is reporting that Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) wants to redefine rape as "forcible". Because you know, just simply saying "no" or being underage or being so drugged up is just not "good enough" in his eyes.

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 9:58 AM PST

2011/01/10 · 09:58

While it is true that some forms of mental illness can increase the likelihood that someone would commit heinous acts of violence, it is not true that all people who have mental illness are violent. Yet, what I've been seeing on both sides, is that they are being quick to assume to know the mental state of the man responsible for the assassination attempt upon the life of Rep. Giffords, even as they are not licensed to make that assumption.

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Thursday December 16, 2010 · 12:27 PM PST

2010/12/16 · 12:27

And neither should general assholery. I do get that people want to defend Julian Assange, Michael Moore, and Keith Olbermann. These are men who have done good things in exposing corruption and greed wherever it lurks and in fact I have seen Michael Moore's films and am a faithful watcher of Countdown. But I take serious issue in how they are handling the Assange case, as if his work at Wikileaks should automatically cancel out the likelihood that Assange could be a grade A asshole when it comes to women.

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Friday October 01, 2010 · 4:57 PM PDT

2010/10/01 · 16:57

As you likely heard by now, a young man who was a talented violinist with all kinds of promise and had everything going for him had killed himself. He was a freshman at my alma mater Rutgers University.

He died because two people, one of them being his roommate, had videotaped him with another man and posted it on the internet. The young man couldn't stand the idea of the whole world knowing who he really was and jumped off the George Washington bridge.

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Thursday August 12, 2010 · 4:59 PM PDT

2010/08/12 · 16:59

Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon has an excellent post up about how the lesser of two evils is not a winning strategy for Democrats. Robert Gibbs doesn't seem to get it that if his boss wants his party to stay intact for the midterms, then they need to find a good way to convince the American people as to why they deserve to stay in power.

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Rape Culture is Not a Left/Right Issue

As It Needs to Be Repeated (and shouldn't have to be)

To My Republican Family and Friends

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) Wants Rape to be "Redefined"

A Call Not To Assume Things About Mental Illness

Rape Apologia Should Never Be Acceptable From Anyone

It's a Sad Time For Those of Us Who Are Rutgers Alumni as Well

No, You Don't Get a Pass From Me