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it was the interviewer comments that got to me, heh

 

yap that was the one. just found that again. tsk.

 

Jian Ghomeshi, Former CBC Broadcaster, Found Not Guilty of Sexual Assault

 

I am so disgusted by this. The judge was CLEARLY biased against the victims.

 

idk if this should go in here but

Adam Johnson jailed for six years for sexual activity with schoolgirl

he's an english footballer.

 

The Tactics Used By Ghomeshi's Lawyers Once Worked On The Same Judge

Same judge, same bullshit.

 

"But why don't women go to the police!"

 

Thought I heard he was found not guilty? Glad he's been sentanced now, anyway. Seen some disgusting things on Facebook over this..

 

he was found not guilty of one charge and guilty of another

 

Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted in his first sexual assault case.

Zoe Kazan is speaking out about her experience with him. zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) | Twitter Her timeline was too much to post but you can find it.

 

Been a while since I've posted in the AP thread. Hi everyone.

Whoever suggested using a punching bag to work out with (I think it was Eva), it totally rules and makes you feel much better.

 

Jian Ghomeshi trial: why the prosecution's case fell apart

makes me feel a little sick reading this. what do yall think? is this a case of hate the game (always stack the odds in the accused's favor) instead of the player (the judge acquitting Jian because of minute details and inconsistencies which arguably didn't really explain away the witnesses' testimonies), and if so, on what scale? how can we rectify innocent until proven guilty and how it interacts with what we know today about sexism, trauma psychology, abuser/abused dynamics, etc?

 

Jia Tolentino, even if I don't necessarily agree with her, is always thoughtful and thought provoking. This piece starts as a rather specific look at "Literary Men" but also blossoms and contracts to include everything from Larkin Grimm's accusations about Swans' Michael Gira and anonymous accounts of reprehensible mens behavior as action-driving forces. Long, but worth it.
http://jezebel.com/is-this-the-end-of-the-era-of-the-important-inappropri-1765684275

 

some bright news, Karlie Kloss started a summer camp for girls to learn how to code
http://www.fastcompany.com/3058403/...losss-new-coding-camp-for-girls?partner=nymag

 

That's amazing.

 

trigger warning: very open, frank, short memoir of surviving gang rape and how it influenced the victim's novel
What I Know

almost too hard for me. i can't imagine how cleansing it must have felt to finally express her burden in some small way.

 

I don't mean to be cryptic, but sometimes it's weird hearing women talk about band members vs. men talking about them. I'll hear a few women talk about a band and they're all going on about how creepy the members are and have gross stories to tell, and then I'll hear guys talk about the same band and they are like "These guys are such stand up dudes! Truly great people!" because well, they haven't been aggressively hit on by them or propositioned when they were minors or whatever other creepy things go down. Sometimes it's just scary how big the divide is.

Nothing specific sparked this btw, I'm just randomly thinking back on past things for no reason.

 

Five Top Female Players Accuse U.S. Soccer of Wage Discrimination

 

posting in here so this becomes a followed thread.

 

Prefacing this by saying I'm not trying to be a jerk or snob, but there's a Follow Thread button now so we can follow threads without posting "sub" or anything at all

 

Eva is the hero this thread deserves

 

*psst you could follow threads on AP without posting in them too*

 

Well god damn I am blind. My bad, everyone.

 

Haha no worries, we're all *new* here. All in good fun.

 

Excellent article.

"While I agree that consent is imperative when it comes to sex (otherwise the word you’re looking for is “rape”), the pornification and sexualization of women isn’t about “sex,” it’s about reminding men and women alike that women are fuckable things — objects that exist for male use. It’s about maintaining the very system of dominance that allows and encourages men to turn powerful women into degrading memes in order to knock them down a peg.

It’s important, too, that we remember that marginalized women are subjected to the very same forms of degradation powerful women are, as women of colour are sexualized and brutalized in a particularly racist way and as poor women are forced into the sex industry as a way to pay the rent or feed their children. Where does “consent” come into play in those situations? Are we prepared to defend those forms of objectification if a woman “agrees” to them and/or is financially compensated?

Women are degraded through pornography regardless of whether or not they “agree” to that degradation. In fact, men use “consent” (by which I mean “payment”) as an excuse to further debase the women they pay for sex, subjecting them to the humiliating, violent acts they won’t or feel they cannot subject their wives or girlfriends to."



The problem with pornography has little to do with 'consent' - Feminist Current