In case of a violent attack, J. A. Drew Diaz says that it’s time to embrace the corollary to the Boy Scout motto: be prepared to fight back.
Rape Culture and Predator Theory
March 21, 2013 By 30 Comments
Heather N examines the ways in which rape culture is at work on rapists, as well as society as a whole and examines whether Predator Theory would cover the Steubenville rapists.
What I Mean When I Talk About Rape Culture
May 11, 2012 By 38 Comments
Just what is rape culture? Ozy Frantz goes into detail about the cultural wellsprings from which it arises.
Harrowing Video About Male Abuse Survivor
March 14, 2012 By 13 Comments
(Hat tip to n1l0c2501.) Trigger warning for explicit depictions of abuse. Minor spoilers for the short film Life’s Poison. I was recently pointed to Life’s Poison, a powerful short film made for the PBS Online Film Festival about a teenage male who was abused by his father and the struggles he goes through in recovering [...]
Maybe We Should Call It Blatantsexism-mas
December 27, 2011 By 43 Comments
Amber Cole and the Misandry of Low Expectations
November 3, 2011 By 50 Comments
Trigger warning for rape. Amber Cole is a fourteen-year-old girl. She performed oral sex on one boy while a second filmed her. There is some suggestion (for instance, by her father) that she might have been coerced; the boys responsible have been arrested. The video surfaced on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, where she was widely [...]
Depression Part Four: Male-Pattern Depression
September 5, 2011 By 44 Comments
Trigger warning for discussion of suicide, depression, and mental illness. The core paradox of men and depression is this: women are more likely to be depressed; men are more likely to kill themselves. This makes literally no sense. Unless one is assuming a giant epidemic of men who wake up bright and early one morning, [...]
“When I went to forgive those who had bullied me in school, they had no idea what they had done to me.”
This is a comment by Anonymous on the post “Should We Forgive Apologetic Bullies?”