WARNING: I’m angry as fuck in here. And I know that has a tendency to fluster the delicate constitutions of the dudes in the audience. I’m not in the least little bit interested in being nice about this shit. Straw. Camel. Back.
This is an edit of a rant I posted on my facebook the other...
So, I try not to do this very often, but this is an important subject. On my other blog Geek Girls Rule!, I had two guys on the podcast to talk about “Nice Guys” and about how not to rape. The reason I did this is because Geek Culture has a lot of problems, particularly with “Nice...
Sorry for the radio silence all week. I appear to have contracted the plague (not swine flu, I did go to the doctor), and have had difficulty stringing together any sentences more complex than, “Juice, now!” or “Get these hot cats off me!” Apparently illness brings out the...
Jessica Valenti wrote a really good piece at The Nation about “Rape Illiteracy.” You should definitely go check it out.
Not only do we live in a culture where many people, male and female, are more than willing to believe that women lie about rape, but we live in a culture where we don’t...
So, women are starting to loudly decry the whole, “Don’t get raped” advice that we’ve had shoved down our throats for our entire lives, and the lives of our fore-mothers, back to the beginnings of time. We’re starting to say things like, “Why are you worrying about my...
So, there was this thing.
An assistant coach at Penn State raped several little boys over the past couple of decades. At least one person walked in on him raping a child, and neither did they step in and stop it, nor did they call the fucking police. He called his dad, who told him to talk to the head...
