Per the Norm, Mainstream Media Gets It Wrong On Rape
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville on "lol your ugly ": "So there's this woman, Bernann McKinney, who was recently in the news for paying to have five puppies cloned from her dearly departed pet pit...
Tagged: Sexual Violence
Things this rape survivor could do without hearing again in life…
As I've begun to unravel the tight ball of emotions related to my rape, I've been given a lot of advice, some good and some bad. Most of it is well-meaning, but not necessarily...
The Aftermath of Being Temporarily Owned By Another
Another excellent posting from Cara at The Curvature on Explaining Rape : The crime of rape is the imposition on another person’s body. The crime of rape is taking away another person’s right to...
Renee Martin: Male Rape
Saturday, July 19, 2008 Male Rape by Renee Martin Originally published at Womanist Musings. Yesterday I read the account of a rape victim. He wrote very eloquently about being raped by a woman.I have not...
On Releasing Old Secrets
It was very difficult to make the decision to share the story of my rape publicly. After all of this time in denial (which ended abruptly in early May), I no longer wanted to...
Getting It Right on Raped Males
An excellent blog posting by John Markley at The Superfluous Man on Cheerleading for rapists: The public’s attitude towards men raped by other men (in prison or otherwise) is almost uniformly dreadful; raped men...
Introductory Post at Re-model 4 Life
Pasted below is my introductory posting as a new blogger for Re-model 4 Life: As I am a new blogger here, I’ll begin with an introduction. I’ve been an internet publisher since 1997, a...
Action vs. Acting Out
I've had my ass kicked online, mocked, taunted and told I was to blame for being raped so much this week I can't tell friend from foe anymore. I spent most of Monday in...
An Education in the Politics of Rape
It has only been 24 hours since I went public with my story. I had emailed Dr. Helen Smith several weeks ago to thank her for a posting she had done on predatory women,...
Admitting It: When a Woman is the Rapist
TRIGGER WARNING FOR SURVIVORS This blog entry contains a warning that usually does not accompany my writings. If you are a rape/CSA/SA survivor and are in a bad place right now, you may wish...