[TRIGGERS]"Reddit's had a few threads about sexual assault victims, but are there any redditors from the other side of the story? What were your motivations?
Do you regret it?" A thoughtful
article on Jezebel with some excerpts from the thread and some excellent comments.
posted by the young rope-rider
on Jul 28, 2012 -
186 comments
Sierra DeMulder is one of the most accomplished and recognizable young women in the world of slam poetry. The two-time National Poetry Slam champion has spent the past five years energizing audiences at colleges and poetry events across the nation, seamlessly weaving complex issues of identity and gender with the honesty of heartbreak. Her piece
'Paper Dolls', recently shared on
Project Unbreakable (previously), is very, very good.
TRIGGER WARNING - subject matter pertains to sexual assault.
posted by lazaruslong
on Mar 9, 2012 -
31 comments
My friends and I confided in each other, swapping stories, sharing out pain, while keeping it all hidden from the adults in our lives. After all, who could we tell? This wasn’t rape - it didn’t fit the definitions. This was Not rape. We should have known better. We were the ones who would take the blame. We would be punished, and no one wanted that. So, these actions went on, aided by a cloak of silence. From
Racialicious.
posted by Navelgazer
on Dec 23, 2008 -
348 comments
Men Can Stop Rape is part of a growing movement to stop rape, sexual assault, and sexual violence by focusing on
educating men. There are efforts to
change the climate on college campuses and
curriculum at
Haverford,
Tulane,
Kansas State,
Idaho State,
University of Wisconsin,
University of Texas,
University of Minnesota,
University of Maine,
Portland State,
Harvard,
University of Rochester,
University of Delaware,
Franklin and Marshall, and
Colorado State, to name a few. Want to start your own? Here's
how.
Not in college? There's
[more inside]
posted by lunit
on Nov 11, 2008 -
279 comments
Son of Senate president offered plea deal in assault case Clifton Bennett, 18, the son of Arizona Senate President Ken Bennett, and his co-defendant, Kyle Wheeler, 19, were charged in January with 18 counts of aggravated assault and 18 counts of kidnapping for the incidents, which happened at a youth camp last June.
The younger Bennett confessed to police that he and Wheeler sodomized the 11- to 14-year-old boys with broomsticks and flashlights in at least 40 incidents, court documents show.
posted by headlemur
on Apr 3, 2006 -
76 comments
FemDefence: A Protection Against Rape • "Femdefence is an on-going project first presented in 2003. The project includes the creation of an imaginary product, which bears the project’s name. The 'product' is a kind of protection against rape, somewhat similar to a tampon in that its user carries it inserted in her vagina. In it there is a sharp pin which has a penetrating effect on the perpetrator’s penis in the event of a rape."
posted by dhoyt
on Apr 19, 2005 -
82 comments
"The
Associated Press, which usually does not report names of sexual assault victims, stopped identifying the girls by name after authorities said they had been raped. The AP resumed reporting Marris' name Friday after she came forward and used Brooks' name after she appeared on national television Monday."
Richard Roeper and the
Los Angeles Times cover the media decision to cover rape differently than other crimes.
posted by rcade
on Aug 5, 2002 -
41 comments
"Inmate rape has such an established place in the mythology of prison that references to confinement often call forth jokes about sexual assault. But while rape is accepted as a fact of prison life, the subject has received little serious attention and legal remedies are rare. Few prison rapists are ever prosecuted, and most prisons provide little counseling or medical attention for rape victims, or help in preventing such attacks."
New York Times: Little Sympathy -- I don't know what this does for recidivism, but it doesn't sound like rehabilitation to me. What's a
prison activist to do?
posted by sudama
on Apr 16, 2001 -
46 comments
