If you haven’t been over to Dirty Rotten Feminist or abyss2hope lately, head on over. Both have been dealing with some obnoxious rape apologists, which sucks for them, but in doing so both have produced a series of great posts debunking common rape myths. I hope both of them will compile them and keep them up as future references. Dirty Rotten Feminist also has links to some great troll bingo cards, enjoy.
The Curvature is back (yay!) with a post on a fascinating new campaign in Britain, aimed at getting potential johns to report women who appear to have been trafficked. The main point:
Trafficked women are forced into selling sex. Forced sex is rape. So if you pay for sex with a trafficked woman, what does that make you? If you suspect a woman has been trafficked, don’t close your eyes to it. And if you’re man enough, call Crimestoppers.
FRIDA reports on a terrible story about the repeated rape of a developmentally disabled man, and the inadequacy of the police response.
And Menstrual Poetry has more on stupid jokes about rape.
And now, I swear, I’m going back to work.







Thanks so much for the plug. I love how blogging and doing random online things in general can sidetrack you so much from your work…I do it daily!