50 Shades of Triggery as Shit

I do a lot of things with science fiction conventions, including doing panels on sex and culture.  So, I thought it would be funny to do a panel on 50 Shades of Grey, called 50 Shades of WTF?  Only, I didn’t expect the book to be so fucking triggery for me.  To be honest, some of the BDSM things...

Rape “Illiteracy”

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...

The War on Women and Girls

The Republicans aren’t the only ones out there fighting the “good” fight against the evils of female sexuality.  Just recently Adrian Chen of Gawker outed uber-troll “Violentacrez” on Reddit as Michael Brutsch, a Texas grandfather, who as Violentacrez hosted forums on Reddit...

No One Wants to Be The Slut: Originally posted at CANOW.org

Ok, so there is so much going on right now, and I am so riled about so many things that I’m having a hard time being coherent.  So, what I’m going to do here is re-post some of the things I wrote for the California Chapter of NOW’s blog, that they’ve taken down since handing the blog...

If You Think Rape is Ever Justifiable, I Don’t Want to Know You.

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...

Penn State and Why I Hate Football Culture.

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...