It was suggested to me that I didn't have to wait for others to agree with me that what had happened to me was wrong -- that I could do something about it myself, if I really wanted.
rape
rape
All you have to do is share a picture and a reason.
rape
The hardest part about dealing with the aftermath rape, for me, has not been sex. It’s been dating.
college
For the first time, people seem to be really listening to the horrible truth about rape and the American school system, so maybe it’s time for the world to hear a truth that’s been weighing on me for quite some time.
parenting
I want my child to never laugh at a classmate tweeting about a rape he just committed. I want my child to stand up for girls who are drunk and just want to go home.
rape
WHY can I not quit hatewatching this show?
sxsw
Today everyone in classes chatted about how fun SXSW was, while I sat awkward and silent.
sexual assault
If I never see the words "seduced," "had sex with," "affair," "forced her to have sex," and so on in a headline about a rape case again, it will be too soon.
rape
The Onion has a message of hope for these poor despondent rapists -- life can still go on after you rape someone, guys!
steubenville
I stayed up all night screen-grabbing tweets that joked about raping and urinating on a girl they thought might be dead. Welcome to Steubenville.
date rape
It has recently come to my attention that some folks are having trouble when it comes to learning how not to rape, so I thought I would put together a little 101 for you in the interest of public service.
dating
I’m trying to figure out why I’ve been alone this long, because I’m kind of sick of it. (And everyone at xoJane is sick of hearing about it.)
Marci in
Relationships,
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single ladies,
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men,
divorce,
weight,
depression,
rape,
clubbed thumbs,
age,
sexuality,
health
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:00pm | 586 comments
ihtm contest
I have compassion now for the brown-haired girl who spent that night going from frying pan to fire to bigger fire.
ihtm contest
His parents told my parents that he would write me a letter of apology. While a letter would never in a million years make things right, I would like to point out it’s been about 10 years and I have not received any letter.
ihtm raw
The next day, they arrested Paul. They didn’t really care about what happened to me, but they needed Paul’s fingerprints and they couldn’t get a court order for them. His fingerprint ended up matching a bloody fingerprint that was at the scene.
assault
I was hammered, and he was not. He was an employee of a major corporation paid to serve alcohol to patrons, and he gave me wine and touched me when he knew I was impaired.
rape
The more comments I read on "IHTM: I Was Raped By My Tattoo Artist," the more I knew it needed to be said: If you've been raped, you don't owe anybody else shit.
Marianne in
Issues,
rape,
reporting rape,
take care of yourself,
feminism,
social pressure,
responses to comments
Jan 23, 2013 at 12:00pm | 256 comments
rape
I had no real context or knowledge of what happened in a legal or social sense. I just knew I had a fresh, healing tattoo, and that I hated the person who gave it to me.
college
I chose Chico State for its journalism program, pretty brick buildings and small town feel, and have stayed despite what the media calls our “sexual assault problem.”
rape culture
That room was full of “cool” guys, progressives, radicals even. And still they saw the world as an episode of Perry Mason where men accused or convicted of crimes against women and children were innocent, and the truth would come out in the end.
rape
Sometimes our front page looks like the RAPE RAPE RAPE montage or the front page of RAPE DIGEST and I just have to close the tab and sigh deeply.
crime
This, right here, is what we talk about when we talk about “rape culture,” that a group of men should be struck senseless in the face of rape, rather than being moved to step in or get to safety and call the police.
