Reading about the heinous, two-and-a-half-hour gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School in Northern California takes me back to a sexual assault incident I dealt with a few years ago as a middle school teacher at an upscale private school. At my school, an eighth-grade girl alleged that three boys had cornered [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rape’
Richmond Rape Rhetoric Reminiscent of “Boys Will Be Boys”
Posted in Equity in the News, Sexual Harassment, tagged rape, Richmond High School, sexual assault on November 9, 2009, | 1 Comment »
A Crime by Any other Name Is Still a Crime
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged 13-year-old, Cokie Roberts, Letterman, rape, Roman Polanski, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, The View, Whoopi Goldberg on October 7, 2009, | 6 Comments »
Just as I was sitting down to write about Roman Polanski, I heard an update on the David Letterman issue: He apparently apologized yet again to his wife and asked reporters to stay away from his female staff … yeah right. I then ran across an interview with Cokie Roberts and agreed with her summation [...]
Time to Draw the Line on Tucker Max
Posted in Sexism, Sexual Harassment, tagged Misogyny, movies, rape, Sexual Harassment, sexual violence, sexualization of girls, Tucker Max on September 28, 2009, | 14 Comments »
With his movie premiere over the weekend, it’s been difficult to escape hearing or reading about Tucker Max, the blogger and author turned movie creator, who has generated a storm of controversy for his jokes about sexual violence. According to news reports, Women and Allies Rising in Resistance said that his writing promoted a culture [...]
Rape Isn’t a Game
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged diversity, RAINN, rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, video games on June 10, 2009, | 14 Comments »
When I was teaching high school in California five years ago, we took about 90 students on a weekend retreat to address issues of diversity. One night the boys and girls were taken into two separate rooms and asked to list all the negative messages they had ever heard about the opposite sex. After a [...]
We Need Male Allies
Posted in NCCWSL, Sexual Harassment, tagged Ben Atherton-Zeman, Byron Hurt, feminism, men, Mentors in Violence Prevention, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, rape, Ritu Sharma, SAAM, sexual assault, sexual assault awareness month, sexual violence, violence against women, Women Thrive Worldwide on April 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
“Men are essential to feminism and to ending sexual assault. If they weren’t, we’d already have ended it.” — Jerin Alam, president, Hunter Women’s Rights Coalition, Hunter College, New York, during a workshop presentation This week I attended Men Can Stop Rape’s first annual conference, focused on men and women as allies in the primary [...]
Addressing Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, tagged college, Community Action Grants, rape, SAAM, sexual assault, sexual assault awareness month on April 8, 2009, | 2 Comments »
One course I am taking as part of my master’s in international media and conflict resolution is Communication and Social Change. This hands-on course provides students practical skills through the planning and implementation of a social change (social marketing) campaign over the course of one semester. The issue we chose to focus on for the [...]
Women’s Studies in the Virtual World
Posted in Educational Programs, The AAUW Community, tagged Avatar, Ohio State University, rape, Second Life, SL, women's studies on November 17, 2008, | 2 Comments »
Distance learning took on a whole new meaning for me when I attended a conference on Saturday, “Virtual Praxis: A Conference on Women’s Community in Second Life.” I didn’t even know what Second Life (SL) was until a few weeks ago, when I read a conference invitation in the AAUW Facebook community. When I started [...]
Violence Against Women
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, tagged 2008 election, domestic abuse, domestic violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Jennifer Hudson, pregnancy, rape, Sarah Palin, sexual assault, violence, violence against women on October 28, 2008, | 4 Comments »
A homeowner in West Hollywood, California, has chosen to hang a mannequin dressed to look like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as part of a Halloween display. He was reported as saying, “It should be seen as art and it should be seen within the month of October. It’s time to be scary and spooky.” Huh? [...]
Equity in the News
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged gender profiling, pregnancy, rape, sports on May 12, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Equity in the News from May 2 – May 12, 2008 Men, concentrated in the weakest sectors, are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains. At least 54 more women are accusing Bloomberg L.P., the financial-services and media company founded by [New York City] Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, of discriminating against pregnant employees, [...]
Re: What Campus Rape Crisis?
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, tagged campus outreach, rape, sexual assault, student activism on March 3, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
As a college student, I engaged in various forms of campus activism on the issue of sexual assault. Thus I was greatly dismayed to read a recent Los Angeles Times article entitled “What Campus Rape Crisis?” The subtitle, “Promiscuity and hype have created a phony epidemic at colleges,” succinctly states the main point of author [...]
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