“If a woman is drunk, don’t rape her. If a woman is walking alone at night, don’t rape her. If a woman is drugged and unconscious, don’t rape her. If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don’t rape her. If a woman is jogging in a park at 5 a.m., don’t rape her. If [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sexual violence’
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 [...]
Effects of Pornography on Perceptions of Women and Sexual Violence
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged GLBT, media, pornography, research, sexual violence, violence against women on June 12, 2009, | 2 Comments »
AAUW Communications fellow Katherine Broendel guest blogs this month at Framing Science about sexual violence as a social problem. The following entry originally appeared on Framing Science and is cross-posted here. Before I begin writing about what my research has found regarding the framing of sexual violence in the media, I’d like to take [...]
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 [...]
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