When Men Are Raped

For some kinds of sexual victimization, men and women have roughly equal experiences Photo by Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock By Hanna Rosin – an excerpt from this article on Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html Last year the National Crime Victimization Survey turned up a remarkable statistic. In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38…

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Yoga pants are not a civil right

Kirsten Powers writes something smart in the USA Today about the so-called ban on yoga pants at Haven Middle School in Evanston, Il. This is what feminism has come to: fighting for the right to wear yoga pants and leggings to middle school. This pressing civil rights issue made headlines when girls in Evanston, Ill.,…

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Rape Culture Myth

Barbara Kay knocks it out the park in this piece ‘Rape culture’ fanatics don’t know what a culture is’. Here is an excerpt: Indeed, the more closely one follows the increasingly hysterical volleys of rhetorical fire back and forth on this issue, the more apparent it becomes that those who speak of a rape culture don’t understand…

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When You Are Wrongly Accused

From this website: http://www.drphil.com/articles/article/217 When You Are Wrongly Accused – Dr. Phil False accusations and gossip can destroy lives, even if the accused is innocent. If your reputation is under attack, Dr. Phil has advice on taking your power back: Accept that there is no way you can erase what has happened. Even though the…

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Women: STOP GETTING DRUNK!

Young women are getting a distorted message that their right to match men drink for drink is a feminist issue. A well-known feminist dissident Camille Paglia one wrote: For a decade feminists have drilled their disciples to say “Rape is a crime of violence but not sex.” This sugarcoated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young…

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Rape Culture?

I found an interesting article on Slate the other day. I’m curious to hear your thoughts My bad sex wasn’t rape The outcry over a recent “Girls” episode startled me. What happened to a woman’s sexual agency? BY ANNA MARCH Defining regret over a consensual experience as rape conveys the message that women who experiment with…

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