Facebook has a very inconsistent policy regarding objectionable content. A picture of a woman breastfeeding her infant? A child might see that nipple! Nude artwork? Put a fig leaf on that! Medical illustrations? Your attempt to educate people about their … Read more →
Probably many of you have seen criticisms of Steve Landsburg’s “thought experiment” involving the Steubenville rape case. He sets up a hypothetical (sort of) about “psychic harm” and public policy: Here are three dilemmas about public policy: Question 1: … Read more →
I’m sure by now many of you are aware of the sexual assault charges against students at Connecticut’s Torrington High School, which I attended for two years. Many of the details of the case have not been released, but the … Read more →
On the heels of the Steubenville trial, another sexual assault case has risen to national attention, presumably due to its similarities: football players and nasty comments made about the victim on social media. Two 18-year-old men–and at 18, they are … Read more →
This is my post about Steubenville. Lots of people have written lots of intelligent things. Dan Wetzel wrote cogently about the case for Yahoo Sports, which isn’t the sort of place where you would normally see discussions of rape culture. … Read more →
February 14th is One Billion Rising, this year’s iteration of V-Day, a campaign against sexualized violence founded by the playwright Eve Ensler. The idea of One Billion Rising is basically that people get together and perform a dance called “Break … Read more →
Two things make me want to write this post: #TellAFeministThankYou, which is happening on Twitter right now, and Suzanne Venker’s latest assertion that “Feminism didn’t result in equality between the sexes, it resulted in mass confusion.” I’m a big fan of … Read more →
This post contains graphic descriptions of violence, including rape and mutilation. Yesterday I wrote about one woman’s attempts to ban Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved from her children’s high school curriculum. I wrote about the necessity of facing terrible things, as … Read more →
Laura Murphy, a parent from Fairfax County, Virginia, is lobbying her school board to remove Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved from their curriculum. Evidently her high school senior son had nightmares after reading the book, and she decided it wasn’t appropriate … Read more →
I recently attended a screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Talk to Her (Hable con Ella). It made me really angry, and some of the responses to the film have made me even angrier. I haven’t seen any other Almodóvar films, so … Read more →