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Recommended reading: Laurie Penny on rape culture

Posted on August 26, 2012 by

Via just saying in comments at The Standard, I recommend this piece with a big trigger warning for sexual assault. Old, white, powerful men know what rape is, much better, it seems, than rape victims. They are lining up to … Continue reading →

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On falsifying rape charges to take down An Hero

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

Not even mentioning the name, you all know who I’m talking about. But I wanted to repeat a comment I made on The Standard: My question, weka, is why are otherwise-intelligent people sincerely trying to argue that being charged with … Continue reading →

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Assange, Wikileaks, and how I don’t give a fuck for your greater good

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

I keep ending up in wonderfully unproductive “debates” about the ongoing Assange case.  So I just want to state a few things for the record: Even if this is all a CIA plot … Even if the Swedish government, well-known … Continue reading →

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I find that generally the missionary position is (a) boring and (b) INVOLVES CONSENT

Posted on February 13, 2011 by

[TW rape apologism on a baffling scale] Via LadyNews.  I’m … well, a little speechless at this point. Peeps, if your partner’s definition of “let’s do it in the missionary position” involves the criteria while you’re unconscious, and after you’ve … Continue reading →

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Yes, Gordon Campbell, you’re a rape apologist

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Gordon Campbell has made his third post in a row in which he treats the accusations against Julian Assange, and his own journalism!fail, so seriously they’re the second item in the column. After explaining that his “comments policy” boils down … Continue reading →

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Assange rape apologism hits NZ

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

On 6 January Gordon Campbell posted an article to Scoop entitled Gordon Campbell Reviews the General Response to Wikileaks. Which would’ve been great if he’d stuck to discussing Wikileaks, and not decided to play Arbiter of How Swedish Law Works … Continue reading →

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Signal boosting: rape culture hasn’t gone away and neither have we

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

Michael Moore apparently acquitted himself well on Rachel Maddow’s show, without anyone actually mentioning that whole Twitter “frenzy” thing which stopped his rape-apologism bullshit from vanishing into the murky depths of Too Much Patriarchal Fuckwittery. But as Sady Doyle has … Continue reading →

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A bigger – and somewhat redundant – message

Posted on December 12, 2010 by

[TW for victim blaming and invasion of privacy] Via Fundy Post, the names and contact addresses of the women accusing Julian “Messiah of The People” Assange have been leaked. A lot of other people have already challenged the bullshit rape … Continue reading →

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