Holiday Week Plans And Questions
My blogging this week will be light to non-existent because of my plans for this holiday week which include working on turning the work I've done on this blog and putting it into book format. Right now the tentative title for my planned book is: They Serve Beer to Rapists.In this book I will be focusing on:1) Helping people see where our society supports a victim-critical, rapist-sympathetic view of rape and how this view is grossly ineffective at preventing rape and causes survivors extra trauma.2) Helping people reject this view and replace it with a healthier model which puts the responsibility for sexual violent actions back where it

Fundamental Conflict Between Rape As Crime Second Only To Murder And Proceeding When Other Person's
Since I started blogging over 3 and half years ago I have watched many people who claim that rape is a crime second only to murder or who use some other way of expressing that they find rape to be horrific quickly shift the focus away from this belief to finding most victims of rape to be at fault for their own rapes.This gives us statements such as inviting trouble, deserved rape and many other statements which put the responsibility for rape prevention and most rapes onto potential victims.The claim that rap

Homelessness and Sexual Assault
From Homelessness Info (Australia) I found a paper on this often overlooked topic of homelessness and sexual assault:The paper shows the significance of the issues of sexual assault and abuse to the issue of homelessness. It describes the high prevalence of sexual assault of people who are homeless, particularly of young and adult women. It documents ways that standard homelessness "solutions" may be unsuitable for homeless people who have experienced sexual assault. It suggests ways

It Takes 2 Not To Tango (Rape)
A comment at The Sexist: On the Difficulty of "Saying No" by J.M. caught my eye:Amanda [Hess]: “It’s not the victim’s duty to stop a violation, it’s a violator’s duty not to violate.”Nice theory, how’s it working for the thousands of women who are raped every day across the globe because the violator’s sense of duty is either temporarily or permanently on hold? In the real world, it takes two not to tango.This vi

The Trouble With "Inviting Trouble"
Some of the most dangerous statements I remember from childhood were often spoken in the context of trying to help me stay safe as I got older. Too many of these dangerous statements are still repeated and they are just as dangerous as they ever were.In comments from the story: NOLA: SUNO basketball player arrested after alleged date rape about a college student accused of rape, I found some good comments which make it clear that those commenters understand what is and is not consent, but I also found familiar dangerous statements based on their judgments about the setting and context in