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- Shakesville: Rape Culture: Watchmen Edition 22 hours ago
Hayter has provided a very clear example, but of course he's not unique in how he thinks. The society he lives in has taught him, as it has taught many, probably most, men (and believe me, I do not claim to be exempt; at best, I am just better equipped with the analytical tools to recognize this in others and in myself), to see women, and rape, and violence, and sex, in this terribly damaged way. On a visceral, sub-rational level, he believes that rape is something that happens to Other People, not People Like Him, that it's not really all that serious, and — since he's addressing his letter to "people like [him]" — he's just being "raw" and "dark" (he doesn't, but might as well have also said "edgy" and "un-PC" — all of which is, other issues aside, a gross mistaking of style for substance), which is to say, titillating to his audience. If you told him he was doing real harm by treating rape so flippantly, well. I guess we're all familiar with the litany of responses by now. - Why you should not watch the Watchmen « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! 22 hours ago
his was one of the less savoury parts of the original work – Alan Moore does unfortunately have a tendency to overuse scenes of sexual violence in his work – but Moore and Gibbons definitely present it as a *bad* thing. You don’t come away from the work thinking ’she wanted it’ (the character herself comes away thinking that maybe she had led him on, but that’s something that rings true) or that the Comedian’s actions are anything other than reprehensible and disgusting. - Clothes Make the Man | Cover Story | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Weekly 22 hours ago
This guy is a master of spin. - Shakesville: Johnny Depp: Rape Defender 2010/03/10
Because, as we've learned, that's the thing about rapists. They rape people. A wedding band doesn't stop them, nor does the fact that they have children. Nor does their age. Denying this, as Mr. Depp is doing, silences rape victims. And, really, haven't victims already been silenced enough? - Evil Slutopia: Is Your Fetus More Important Than You Are? 2010/02/21
For those unfamiliar, the basic concept is that by viewing the fetus as a separate person and patient, its medical treatment ultimately requires invading the body of its mother. Samantha Burton's attorney, David Abrams, put it well: "Does the state own the inside of a woman's womb, that it can kind of intervene at will?" Granting a fetus personhood is inherently contradictory to maintaining the rights and dignity of the person carrying it. When a hospital can treat a pregnant women like a prisoner, utterly disregarding her rights and dignity, on the basis of "protecting" her fetus... what does that say about our society?
- Shakesville: Rape Culture: Watchmen Edition 22 hours ago