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.
steubenville
rape
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.
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,
dating,
single ladies,
okcupid,
men,
divorce,
weight,
depression,
rape,
clubbed thumbs,
age,
sexuality,
health
Mar 7, 2013 at 2:00pm | 586 comments
todd akin
The reason the Internet is exploding over #legitimaterape right now is because every woman knows deep in her heart this feeling of shame I am writing about.
rape
A nice cheerful post for a Thursday morning!
rape
A Reddit user helpfully described his history of serial rapes in detail, and commenters rose to the occasion with stories of their own.
ihtm contest
I have compassion now for the brown-haired girl who spent that night going from frying pan to fire to bigger fire.
sxsw
Today everyone in classes chatted about how fun SXSW was, while I sat awkward and silent.
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.
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
Making the point that people with jobs in journalism have no business speculating about the truthfulness of rape allegations is well worth losing some steady work over.
assholes
On the NPR and Daily Mail backlash. And should I try to go on Dr. Phil?
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.
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.
rape
The Onion has a message of hope for these poor despondent rapists -- life can still go on after you rape someone, guys!
anger
All those times I jealously watched some dude in my group therapy beat the shit out of a pile of pillows with a baseball bat, and it turns out I just needed some fucking Congressman to say some extraordinarily dumb shit and BOOM! Anger unlocked.
rape
Why had I thought I’d be immune to being called a slut, whore, homewrecker, protected from having my motives and intentions questioned, from being treated as if I were the criminal? And by my own attorney, no less.
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.
another country
This was what my abroad semester was for, I thought determinedly: to try to run at every wall and see if I could climb it before the skin on my palms gave way and I fell to the ground.
rape
All you have to do is share a picture and a reason.
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.
parenting
Some women become mothers and they soften around the edges and settle into a peaceful life with the baby In some of us, motherhood unlocks a well of anger we did not know existed.
