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US media portrays rape culture as a foreign problem. Here’s why they’re wrong.
The public gang rape of a college student in India has rightly sparked global outrage about violence against women, forcing rape to become a topic of discussion for even US media outlets. For the first...
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This is what US rape culture looks like
In my last post, I forgot to include, as an example of rape culture, a gang rape that took place in Steubenville, an Ohio football town where at an August end-of-summer party, members of the...
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Rape culture is NOT isolated to Steubenville
The repeated rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl in the small football-loving town of Steubenville, Ohio, in August is making national headlines thanks to the diligence of Alexandria Goddard, a...
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Police officers accused of rape get a pass from the LA Times
The Los Angeles Times reports that two veteran police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department are under investigation for using the threat of jail to force several women they had previously...
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#Steubenville Rape Victim Receiving Death Threats
The worst is not yet behind the young woman who was raped by two Steubenville High football players in the football obsessed town of Steubenville, Ohio. CBS News reports that just one day after her...
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Support Grows for Steubenville’s Head Football Coach Despite His Role in Rape...
(Update at the bottom) A reader of Dispatches from the Underclass who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, has alerted me to a protest planned for Saturday, March 30, in support of Steubenville High School...
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Media Assumes Best of Police and Worst of Low-Income Neighbors in Cleveland...
The harrowing story of three Cleveland women—Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight—held captive by Ariel Castro for a decade seems to reach new levels of horror with each emerging detail. But...
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Teacher Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail For Raping 14-Year-Old; Judge Blames Victim
(Updated below) Fifty-four-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold, a former high school teacher in Montana, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales. That’s right, just 30 days....
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How Alan Dershowitz bullied rape victims to protect a serial child molester
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz always felt children were fair game for Israeli missiles. Now the question is whether he thinks they are fair game...
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Israel defender Alan Dershowitz has long history of attacking sex abuse victims
Originally published at The Electronic Intifada There are two groups of people Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has spent his career resolutely defending. The first is Israeli war criminals. And...
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