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		<title>Why blame the victim?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 02:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's more comfortable to believe that Tootie would have been safe if she had been in the "safe" park for small dogs, than it is to believe that she could just as easily have been bitten by a vicious dog on that side of the fence too. And fences can be breached just like rules, no? At the end of the day, it's a violent perpetrator who is unsafe; not a dark alley or a bar or a dog park. Those are spaces. We choose how to fill them.
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		<title>Untested rape kits in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I pose a call to action with regard to getting the rape arrest rate to nationally meet and hopefully exceed that of New York City's and one that would increase the sexual education of teenagers and young adults in high school and college. I ask the Federal Government to force state governments to force local law enforcement officials to fully examine ALL rape kits. Additionally, I ask that the Federal Government mandate that all high school seniors take and pass a responsible sex education class before graduating. The class would entail an understanding of sexuality, its consequences, both for violent sexuality and consensual sexuality, and a signed pledge from students (male and female) to be responsible sexual participants. While conservatives will note that this may cause a slight increase in tax rates nationwide, we cannot continue to be negligent and naive about sexuality and violence. (To you cheapskates, my response: Go back to kindergarten and learn how to share!) We need to teach boys how to control their bodies and respect human beings. We need to teach girls and boys how to protect themselves and make responsible choices. And most of all, we need to teach ourselves that one rape is too many; certainly, 20,000 or more unpunished is grotesque and inhumane.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1202&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Hillary&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some men hate women, in the U.S. and abroad? Why do they want to beat us into submission? Why do they want to kill us in heinous ways? Why don't they want us to be happy with powerful, singular identities and exciting, fulfilling sex lives? Why won't they let us take control of our reproductive rights without at fight? Why won't they let us be mothers and lovers at the same time, sinners and saints simultaneously?

There exists a pervasive hatred and fear of women in our American culture. Whether movies, television, art and literature reflect or cause this fear escapes my understanding. But it all culminates at a rigid point: collectively, we believe women are one thing or the other, limited by our sex to be either good or bad. The "good" women are loving mothers, faithful wives, compliant sexual partners and obliging victims. The "bad" women reject their obligations to the "good" tasks, opting for personal pleasure. In other words, "good" women sacrifice themselves for this goodness, while "bad" women sacrifice nothing. As an unnamed Hollywood executive said of Ms. Swank, "Her look and demeanor are not soft, so it's hard to see her as vulnerable or as a love object."

Ergo, this Hilary like another Hillary we know, does not fall cleanly into either the "good" or "bad" categories, and is therefore a "difficulty."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For all Americans who think it doesn&#8217;t happen here&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thefemspot.com/2009/10/27/for-all-americans-who-think-it-doesnt-happen-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you find yourself asking the question, "Why did they do it?" There is no "why" great enough to justify this level of violence and hatred. There is no excuse!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=1064&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New York Times lament</title>
		<link>http://thefemspot.com/2009/08/26/the-new-york-times-lament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still, I'm glad that somebody is getting angry about this. There are those haters out there who jumped all over Secretary of State Clinton a few weeks ago after she flew off the handle in the Congo when asked by a male student what Mr. Clinton thinks, "through the mouth of Mrs. Clinton," about the World Bank tampering with Chinese contracts. The incident was met with eye-rolling from CNN "news" correspondents and a heap of criticism from columnists and comedian's alike. But as this Times news blog points out, Clinton may have gotten a raw deal. She was, after all, standing up for herself and her position at the top, one she's worked toward for many years.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=910&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little about violence against women: Watchmen and beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both films contain rape content (The Last House on the Left is about vengeance resulting from the act), but Watchmen presents this violence without a caveat. Instead, the film justifies the rape by (I'm told) making the Comedian repentant and by (I'm told, although it's also obvious) structuring the story so that Silk Spectre's heir apparent is conceived during the Comedian's successful, albeit violent, conquest. The movie should have shown the rape and not just its unsuccessful precursor. And it should have condemned the violence. Instead, it delights in violence of all kinds. A pedophile therein doesn't just kill a little girl...he leaves her bones to be chewed on by dogs. Isn't the first half of that thought horrific enough on its own? Why must it be compounded?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=499&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All the world is a sandbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get it. The Earthlords don't want us in their sandbox, and they sure as shit don't want us in their military, on their police force, in their law firms or at their construction sites.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefemspot.com&amp;blog=3742533&amp;post=41&amp;subd=femspotter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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