Everyone have a good International Women’s Day/Feminist Coming Out Day? Check out these compelling links from this week, and feel free to share your stories below!
- Andrea Grimes at HAY LADIES! and Shelby Knox at change.org encourage us to demand an apology from the author of the horribly irresponsible New York Times article about an eleven-year-old rape victim. Over at the Rumpus, Roxane Gay speaks poignantly about the article and its connections to rape culture.
- Excited for the new collection Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica Yee and featuring Latoya Peterson and Andrea Plaid? Us too! Read excerpts now at Racialicious!
- Also at Racialicious, Latoya writes about tokenism, the blogosphere, and book deals in “On Being Feminism’s ‘Ms. Nigga.’”
- Halle Kiefer responds to worries about the ephemerality of pop culture jokes on Splitsider.
- Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdown writes about poet Diane Di Prima for Autostraddle!
- At Colorlines, Jamilah King reports on Cairo’s Million Woman March, which overcame anti-feminist protesters.
- Also at Colorlines, Jamilah discusses the saddening need for the upcoming International Anti-Street Harassment Day.
- Still celebrating International Women’s Day? Same here! Check out this list of IWD-related pieces from around the world, compiled by Bitch contributor Chally Kacelnik for Feministe!
- Beth Saunders shares the latest in bad abortion-restriction news at RH Reality Check.
- In good news, Renee at Womanist Musings reports that trans* prisoners in the United Kingdom are now allowed to dress to match their gender identity!
- At The Good Men Project Magazine, Amanda Marcotte explains how the more the wrongheaded Men’s Right Activists sometimes recognize actual problems. Their solution? More feminism, natch! (via Feministing)
- Erica Payne at the Huffington Post talks about Wal-Mart vs. Dukes, calling the equal pay-focused case “one of the most important civil rights cases in the country’s history.”
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That NYTimes article...wtf was the article writer thinking?
t3hdow replied on
I understand that not everyone understands the nature of rape as badly as the victims do, but the amount of victim bashing and lackadaisical concern for the victim (as opposed to the eighteen boys who assaulted her) made me shake my head. Blaming the victim's mom for being neglectful? Blaming the girl for having supposedly suggestive outfits? Lamenting the fates of the eighteen perpetrators? Unbelievable.
The response article was pretty enlightening on how entertainment media has reduced rape to a "ratings sweep" commodity instead of treating it with the degree of seriousness of what it actually is: sexual torture. Of course, what's so ironic is that for the last decade, especially with "24", non-sexualized torture gets criticized heavily and is seen as socially irredeemable, and yet when it's sexual torture, aka rape, it doesn't receive anywhere near the amount of criticism that "real" torture receives. Pffh. I guess it's easier to demonize murder and torture, because it's not something that affects many people directly. But rape? With such prevalence, no wonder it's become sanitized in recent years.
In fact, this webcomic, despite its satiric take on the subject, perfectly describes how embedded rape is to our media conscience, most notably in TV.
http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=4
P.S. By the way, the NYTimes link doesn't work. Luckily, the included response article has the updated link. Supposedly, this version has been edited somewhat to erase the really bad implications before, but this version still retains the face-palm worthy language of what
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/09assault.html?_r=2
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