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Category Archives: Acts of Violence
International Violence Against Women Act Introduced into U.S. Senate
The Daily Feminist News reports: Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced yesterday the International Violence Against Women Act. The bill was written with the input and … Continue reading
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Being a Victim of Domestic Violence and a Model Employee
From this article in today’s New York Times, on the importance of workplace inititives to support victims of domestic violence: On one level, it is hard to imagine why any victim of domestic violence would not ask for help. But … Continue reading
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“Not For Sale”
A video about prostitution by the European Women’s Lobby, via Witchy-woo.
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Can’t Handle The Truth, Naval Style
FLP friend Jenn Frederick asks: “Anyone notice the headline for the AP article about the Navy shooting in Bahrain? The headline states “2 US Sailors Shot to Death in Bahrain” — kind of sounds like maybe they were killed by … Continue reading
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Lethal Domestic Violence Declines in Maryland
A Maryland program may be reducing the incidence of deadly domestic violence against women. More information is here. -Ralph Michael Stein
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“Consent and Coercion: Examining Unwanted Sex Among Married Young Women in India”
This study, by K.G. Santhya, Nicole Haberland, F. Ram, R.K. Sinha and S.K. Mohanty, reports: A growing body of research explores the nonconsensual sexual experiences of young people in developing countries. A recent review of evidence suggests that significant minorities … Continue reading
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Prostitution In Atlanta, As Described By the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
I encountered this 43 page opinion in U.S. v. CHARLES FLOYD PIPKINS, a.k.a. Sir Charles, ANDREW MOORE, JR., a.k.a. Batman during the course of some research, and I found it depressing how, even filtered through two layers of judges, the … Continue reading
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“Ouch.”
Know what these are? “South of the Border” “Marble Sac” with Shaft Backdoor Treatment “Crackdown” Full Moon Rising Answer here, in the left column. No, the listings in the right hand column don’t sound any more appealing or less painful, … Continue reading
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Using Facebook to Identify Attackers
An earlier post described how police used bragging posts on Facebook to identify suspects in the beating of an Indiana woman. Now this from cnn.com: Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown … Continue reading
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Attackers Brag on Facebook
A local Indiana television station reported this story: Police said five women, four of them Ball State University students, brutally attacked another woman and then bragged on the Internet about what they had done. The attack happened in an off-campus … Continue reading
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“The Essence of War”
Dr. Violet Socks reminds us that soldiers are not the main casualties of war. Innocent civilians are. In part she cites to this article, which observes: Feminist anthropologists such as Cynthia Enloe have documented how the U.S. military perpetuates the … Continue reading
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Online Magazine Jezebel Asks: “Ever Had A Boss Who Made You Hate Men?”
The post and hair raising comments in reply are here.
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“World Conference on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery”
Info and overview at IntLawGrrls.
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“On ‘Would Be’ Lynchings: Hate Crimes, Rape, and the Military Industrial Complex”
Diary of an Anxious Black Woman ties some things together.
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Message For Survivors of Rape, Incest and Sexual Abuse: “You are Lovable, Worthy and Deserve Good Things”
From the October 8, 2007 issue of Newsweek, one survivor of sexual abuse tells her story, which involved testifying as an adult against an uncle who abused her as a child: I tell you this story with trepidation. But my … Continue reading
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“Not your Erotic Not your Exotic”
“Not your Erotic Not your Exotic” discusses the sexual exploitation of women of color fairly graphically. The post title comes from this video.
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Eye Witness Testimony
So last summer I was the victim of a crime. The police had some strong ideas about who might have done it, so I had opportunities to try to identify the perpetrator twice. Both line ups were really well done, … Continue reading
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Pornography, Prostitution and “Liberals”
In August of 2000 the New York Observer published an interview with Larry Flynt that also included some quotes by Dennis Hof, owner of the “Moonlite Bunny Ranch” brothel in Nevada (I’m not going to link to this establishment’s web … Continue reading
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Don Hazen, “Pornography and the End of Masculinity”
I was surprised to read the beginning of this review essay. Hazen writes: In his new book, Robert Jensen forces the reader to face the music about the effects of a porn industry gone gonzo, and the need to reassess … Continue reading
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Melissa Farley, “Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections”
From this site: Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada addresses the scope of the sex industry in Nevada, including human rights violations against women in the Nevada legal brothels. The book describes how the multibillion-dollar illegal sex industry in Las Vegas … Continue reading
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A Mother, A Media Circus and the West Virginia Hate/Abuse Case
AnxiousBlackWoman has this trenchant commentary on the behavior of the mother of the woman who who was held captive, tortured and sexually abused for over a week in a West Virginia trailer: It wasn’t until yesterday that I tuned into … Continue reading
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The Internet and Your Job
From this article in the NYT: Every summer for the last four years, e-mail security company Proofpoint has surveyed large companies about their Internet security anxieties and the measures they are taking to protect themselves. The findings, of course, are … Continue reading
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Goldman Family Publishes O.J. Simpson Book, “If I Did It,” To Punish O.J., But Inflicts A Lot of Pain On Nicole Brown’s Family As Well
The WaPo reports: … The book — in which Simpson wrote of how he might have killed Nicole Brown, his ex-wife, and Ron Goldman the night of June 12, 1994 — prompted so much negative reaction that the original publisher, … Continue reading
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Title IX Sexual Harassment Case Against The U. of Colorado Reinstated
On September 6th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit reversed an appalling dismissal of a Title IX sexual harassment case, Simpson v. University of Colorado. Here are some excerpts from the AAUW’s “case history”: Lisa Simpson, former … Continue reading
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This War
In case General Petraeus runs out of time before testifying to Congress about the experiences of Iraqi women, here’s what human rights organizations think you should know: According to the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq [OWFI], “lack of personal … Continue reading
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A Woman’s Perspective on Polygamy
Provided here at cnn.com. -Ralph Michael Stein
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Human Trafficking and Slavery
Database that provides country-by-country ionformation here, via Black Looks, where Sokari writes: I read a report yesterday that there are thousands of African and South Asian migrants amongst the displaced in Lebanon. Unlike other foreign nationals from the Middle East … Continue reading
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Title IX Action Against University of Colorado May Proceed
Yesterday the 10th Circuit issued this opinion reversing and remanding the District Court’s grant of the University of Colorado, Boulder’s motion summary judgment in a Title IX case brought against the University by two women who claimed they were raped … Continue reading
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“Eve Teasing” and The Blank Noise Project
Via Feminist Law Prof Lesley Wexler, an article about street harassment in India, excerpted below: … The efforts of academics, women’s groups, and artists like Patheja are raising major questions about gender issues and the need for safe public space … Continue reading
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Rape and Consent
Troubling essay about “gray rape” here. Eloquent and powerful feminist response here. And another one here.
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Who is Hurt by Dog Fighting?
From cnn.com’s guest commentator: Because violence breeds violence, dogfighting endangers communities wherever it occurs. Aside from hurting animals, it nurtures a violent mind-set that makes it easier for people to brutalize other people. The results of a recent Chicago Police … Continue reading
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Camp Okutta Doesn’t Exist
But read about it anyway at this Sivacracy post by Liz Losh.
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“Ohio court redefines the future for gays, lesbians”
Feminist Law Prof Marc Spindelman published a column with this title in recent issue of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Below is an excerpt: A funny thing happened in the Ohio Supreme Court last month: For the first time, the court … Continue reading
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“Experts have often wondered what proportion of men who download explicit sexual images of children also molest them. A new government study of convicted Internet offenders suggests that the number may be startlingly high: 85 percent of the offenders said they had committed acts of sexual abuse against minors, from inappropriate touching to rape.”
The NYT story this quote was copied from here.
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Justice for LaVena Johnson
From the FLP mailbox: Shakesville contributor Phil Barron (also known as Waveflux) has long been covering the story of Pfc. LaVena Johnson, who died in Iraq in July 2005 from what her family was told was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. … Continue reading
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Gender’s Unnatural Disaster
The fallout from Hurricane Dean will be deeper and darker than anything we could learn from an action hero reporter gripped to a palm tree. A child playing outside right now as you read this post will drown sometime within … Continue reading
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Redefining “Peace” To Include Women
From Our Bodies Our Blog: Global Peace Index Fails to Account for Violence Against Women and Children: Describing the Global Peace Index, a ranking of countries according to their level of peacefulness published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Riane Eisler, … Continue reading
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There Is Nothing Rebellious Or Countercultural About Being “Pro-Porn”
From a NYT article entitled “Federal Effort on Web Obscenity Shows Few Results” we learn about a Justice Department grant to a conservative religious group called “Morality in Media” that pays people to review “sexual Web sites and other Internet … Continue reading
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Unprosecuted Abuse of Native American Women
This article in the LA Times raises the question of what law governs the crime of sexual abuse of a Native American women by non-Native men. there is a huge problem that is being regularly ignored in our country. … Continue reading
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Private Gets 110-Year Sentence for Rape and Killing
From the New York Times: A 23-year-old Army private was sentenced last night to 110 years in prison, a day after a military jury convicted him of rape and four counts of murder for his role in the attack last … Continue reading
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Another Rape-Related Criminal Prosecution….
…of the Complainant.
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Sex Segregated Mass Transit
After a NYT study found that 63% of NYC suway riders say they have been sexually harrassed, Jessica Valenti published a column at The Guardian entitled “Is segregation the only answer to sexual harassment?” In it she questions whether separate … Continue reading
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Canada Grants Asylum To Woman Trying To Protect Her Daughter From FGM
Women’s Enews account here. The article notes in pertinent part: A growing number of women are requesting asylum in Western countries to escape gender-based persecution. As a signatory of the 1951 United Nations’ Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of … Continue reading
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Subway Groping Makes the News
From Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s website: “[I]t is hard to find a woman who rides the subway who hasn’t been harassed – or who doesn’t know someone who has been. Our goal is to raise the profile of … Continue reading
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Some Recent Writings About Rape
At The Debate Link, describing his fear of being falsely accused of a crime, David Schraub writes (in part): … First, and obviously, there are some false accusations out there; ideally, having theory and practice available to handle such situations … Continue reading
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Front Page News In South Carolina: “Girl Violence On The Rise In Schools”
Here is an excerpt from a story by Devon Marrow published on 2006-10-16, Page A1, in The State newspaper (Columbia, SC): Girls today, according to national crime statistics, are more violent than girls of two or three decades ago. The … Continue reading
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“Turn Down The Heat On Clinic Protests”
Gloria Feldt discusses abortion clinic protests here.
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What the Federal Bureau of Prisons Doesn’t Trust Us to Interpret
From the New York Times: Experts have often wondered what proportion of men who download explicit sexual images of children also molest them. A new government study of convicted Internet offenders suggests that the number may be startlingly high: 85 … Continue reading
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Forced Electroshock as a Feminist Issue
Read Dr. Violet Socks’ account at Reclusive Leftist.
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The Nazis Ran Prison Brothels
Not really a surprise but not something that received much attention in the past. From Yahoo News: For decades no one wanted to remember the concentration camp “special blocks” where the Nazis forced female inmates to entertain their male peers. … Continue reading
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