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Warning: links in this section are likely to be triggering
Nicholas Kristof wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times on the rape of very young girls in Liberia. Observe my total lack of surprise, except at this issue getting such mainstream exposure.
Part of Bloglandia, mainly on scienceblogs.com, is running a campaign on this, wherein some bloggers are donating all their bloggy income for June to Médecins Sans Frontières, which is caring for child survivors. I'm late, but June isn't over yet. Posts including lists of participants can be found on isisthescientist and on Neurotopia.
Closer to home
They talk about "shattered norms", but rape culture is everywhere, and in "Western civilisation" in particular. People are now talking about it in journals: the most recent conversation to be documented by![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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cereta asking, according to my reading of her post, why the silent majority of men who don't rape are silent, and how many of them do anything positive about it.
PETA outrage common decency and set back the cause of vegetarianism
I found this while looking for Silence is the Enemy posts: PETA exploit murder of Dr. George Tiller in ad campaign.
Do they seriously think this will turn more people on to vegetarianism/veganism than off? Or is this just a new twist on their infamous treating-women-as-meat and dressing-up-as-terrorists campaigns?
ETA:shewhohashope posted On rape culture and civilisation, which has a lot of analysis of how rape is not an anomaly in present-day societies.
Her post also makes me think my connections here could be problematic. Men's assumptions of rights over women's and girls' bodies operate both in the "West" and in post-colonial conflict zones, but the context is different - it's not just "oh look, the patriarchy in action again".
Warning: links in this section are likely to be triggering
Nicholas Kristof wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times on the rape of very young girls in Liberia. Observe my total lack of surprise, except at this issue getting such mainstream exposure.
Part of Bloglandia, mainly on scienceblogs.com, is running a campaign on this, wherein some bloggers are donating all their bloggy income for June to Médecins Sans Frontières, which is caring for child survivors. I'm late, but June isn't over yet. Posts including lists of participants can be found on isisthescientist and on Neurotopia.
Closer to home
They talk about "shattered norms", but rape culture is everywhere, and in "Western civilisation" in particular. People are now talking about it in journals: the most recent conversation to be documented by
linkspam was started by cereta asking, according to my reading of her post, why the silent majority of men who don't rape are silent, and how many of them do anything positive about it.PETA outrage common decency and set back the cause of vegetarianism
I found this while looking for Silence is the Enemy posts: PETA exploit murder of Dr. George Tiller in ad campaign.
Do they seriously think this will turn more people on to vegetarianism/veganism than off? Or is this just a new twist on their infamous treating-women-as-meat and dressing-up-as-terrorists campaigns?
ETA:
shewhohashope posted On rape culture and civilisation, which has a lot of analysis of how rape is not an anomaly in present-day societies.Her post also makes me think my connections here could be problematic. Men's assumptions of rights over women's and girls' bodies operate both in the "West" and in post-colonial conflict zones, but the context is different - it's not just "oh look, the patriarchy in action again".