When you are a woman—an adult female human being who has overlapping disabilities that all intersect with being a woman—it gets extremely challenging to keep hearing your existence trivialized. I’m …
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You Can’t Say the F-Word on Television, but You Can Call Women Whores?
When insulting women is considered entertainment, but women objecting is considered oversensitivity, the joke has become a lesson in whose dignity is negotiable. Viewers of American television are noticing that …
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When Someone Knows You’re Uncomfortable and Keeps Pushing: Recognizing Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse can be difficult to explain in a society that struggles to respect women’s safety boundaries in the first place. So much of emotional abuse involves someone knowing what …
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Before He Killed Again: How Many Women Tried to Warn Us?
What I love about Octavia Spencer’s production direction of “The Lost Women of Highway 20” is that she intentionally spotlighted all the missed opportunities, when people chose not to listen …
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When a Woman’s No Is Called Hatred: What Does That Say About How Men View Women’s Boundaries? (with free pdf download)
Why women’s refusal, independence, and desire for safety are so often treated as offenses against men. There is something deeply troubling about a man hearing a woman say no and …
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Why Must a Rape Survivor Prove She Was a “Good Victim” Before We Believe Her?
The crime was the perpetrator’s choice, not the victim’s failure to behave perfectly. There is something deeply troubling about the way we expect women and girls to behave after sexual …
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When Women’s Rights Become Criminal Complaints: The Case of Marguerite Stern and Dora Moutot
A woman does not become hateful because she refuses to believe what someone else believes. Her mind is not public property, and her agreement is not a debt she owes. …
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It’s Not About Sex: How Rape Culture Actually Works (video)
Rape culture isn’t about sex. This video is about the everyday behaviors that teach boys other people’s discomfort is entertainment, that boundaries are negotiable, and that his amusement matters more …
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The Fairytale Behind “Why Didn’t She Call the Police?”
Woman Lured Her ‘Baby-Daddy’’s Rape Accuser Into Kidnapping, Prosecutors Say · City Cast DC There is a fairytale version of society hiding behind the question, “Why didn’t she report?” …
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Women Have Been Singing About Their Freedom for Generations. They Had Good Reason.
Women have never needed permission to recognize ourselves as women. Our history didn’t begin with someone else’s willingness to acknowledge us. From the blueswomen of the 1920s to the voices of …