Today in Rape Culture

[Content Note: Rape culture.]So, a lady student in the College of Or produced an anti-rape PSA in reaction towards the Steubenville situation, that was gone viral, and CNN did a brief piece around the PSA. [The recording was messing in the page code, and so i took it off, but you will see the segment here.]CNN Anchor Don Lemon (a black guy putting on a dark pinstriped suit along with a brown tie): Well, it is a video that's been going viral around the heels from the Steubenville rape case—a co-erectile dysfunction in the College of Or states she was annoyed by the situation and made the decision to create her very own video to exhibit what someone must do inside a similar situation. Samantha Stindall (ph) calls her public service video "a needed response." Here is a clip—the entire clip. Online Video of the youthful whitened guy inside a t-shirt and jeans speaking right into a camera, while a youthful whitened lady putting on a t-shirt and shorts is given out on the couch without anyone's knowledge: Hey, bros. [he gestures towards the lady] Check who given out around the couch. You know what I am gonna do in order to her? [he retrieves a pillow and puts it within mind a blanket that they drapes on the top of her excrement which he sets what appears like a mug of tea smooths her hair] Real males? Treat women based. Lemon: The YouTube video just went survive Friday it's already received a lot more than 727,000 sights.Besides the proven fact that I wasn't aware i was still while using term "co-erectile dysfunction" around in our the almighty Jesus Johnson two 1000 and 13, it had been a good little bit of coverage. But this is the way CNN is presently tease the recording on its first page: The fuck, CNN? I should not have to explain why it's fucked-as much as tease an anti-rape video exhorting males to not assault unconscious women by having an image and text recommending that it is video of the guy attacking an unconscious lady. "' ' PSYCH!"—CNN. Just no. Anti-rape advocacy isn't the here we are at crazy reversal pranks.I am sure there's some threadbare rationalization waiting to become used about attracting the individuals who need to visit it most, but the reality is that effective anti-rape advocacy does not occur in spaces that tantalize rape aficionados with materials that seem to promise use of a sexual assault.Typically, effective anti-rape advocacy also does not have the possibility to create anti-rape advocates gasp and children trigger once they come across it.Obviously, I don't think as it were that CNN provides a flying fuck about anti-rape advocacy. They stunning clearly simply want click-throughs, from anybody, unconditionally. Better luck the next time, rapists.

BOOM.

Would That I Knew

The majority of the searches presently getting individuals to Shakesville via search engines like google have related to marriage equality being contended prior to the Top Court. This, however, is my personal favorite included in this:Superb question, my pal.

DOMA Arguments

This is an excellent review of the DOMA arguments made prior to the Top Court yesterday, and just how everything went lower.It's incredible the Court and also the country can experience all this, and that we may emerge out sleep issues still with no ruling that determines "a particular constitutional standard for knowing laws and regulations that allegedly discriminate according to sexual orientation." Allegedly. Ahem.

Daily Dose of Cute

"Yeah, I am fuzzy. What exactly? You wanna make something from it?InchOf course, please feel welcome and urged to talk about pix from the fuzzy, feathered, or scaly people of ones own in comments.

Open Thread

A Teenager Wolf movie poster

Open Thread

Located by Arthur Carlson.This week's Open Threads happen to be located by figures from WKRP in Cincinnati.

Open Thread

Located by Jennifer Marlowe.

Blame the Girls

[Content Note: Rape culture.]At CNN, whose coverage from the Steubenville rape situation remains abysmal, Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Women, includes a novel method of holding women and ladies responsible for rape:Is other people wondering why the Steubenville, Ohio rape victim's two close friends claimed against her? With this particular week's arrest of two other women who "menaced" the teenager victim on Twitter and facebook, we've the origins of the answer.Rape culture isn't just the province of boys. The frequently hidden culture of girl cruelty can discourage accusers from coming forward and punish them viciously after they do. That's the way the piece opens. It's adopted my many sentences about how exactly women are socialized to determine their worth via sexual attract boys, and just how which will make women competitive and traitorous toward each other, with a few areas of which To be sure plus some I do not. That is certainly not really a universal experience: None, and that i mean none, of my close girl buddies in middle- and school were ever nasty in my experience or each other on the guy, and that we wouldn't inside a million years have unsuccessful to aid and defend each other against sexual violence. Nothing spurred our ire greater than a dude who roughed up another in our circle. Also it certainly wasn't because we did not watch our value as based on the opportunity to get and men: I regret to state we did. But that does not always intersect using the "mean girl" apathy to sexual violence that Simmons claims it routinely does.The piece finishes thus:That does not mean that Jane Doe was raped due to girls' silence. Women may not speak up for a lot of reasons, but it is difficult to disregard the energy of the culture that pushes these to choose boys over one another and punish other women to safeguard their very own reputations.We should speak with women regarding their responsibility in situations such as this. To prevent another Steubenville, we have to train children from an earlier age about gender-based violence. The term "slut" isn't just an epithet it's a word which has given adolescents permission to abandon and hurt one another whenever a girl needs support most.Women must realize not just their moral obligation however their energy to become allies to one another at parties along with other potentially unsafe spaces for women. If boys understood that women banded together to aid one another, they'd be less inclined to talk about on social networking, a smaller amount commit, these terrible functions of sexual violence.So, she's "not to imply that Jane Doe was raped due to girls' silence," but she's stating that boys "could be less inclined" to commit and share on social networking functions of sexual violence if perhaps women "banded together to aid one another." Okay.There's truth to that particular, meaning that a variety of people showing unified condemnation of sexual violence is an efficient deterrent. But that is not only on women. It is not enough for boys not to rape they have to stand it solidarity from the boys that do, too.Especially because boys largely aren't jeopardizing retributive sexual violence being visited upon them when they stand at risk from a rapist and the target.It's amazing the amount of ways we are able to find responsible women for his or her own disproportionate victimization and excuse boys from the responsibility whatsoever.

Adria Richards Does Belong at Tech Conferences

[Content Note: Harassment.]Yesterday, Julie Pagano sent us a heads-up about developer evangelist Adria Richards who had heard males making sexual jokes in the PyCon conference, required and tweeted their picture asking, in alignment using the conference's mentioned codes of conduct, for that conference to enforce that code, after which was subsequently fired from her job consequently from the "public character" from the enormous backlash against Richards, which incorporated the typical barrage of misogyny, racism, and violent risks.I'm always torn whether and just how much to create about this stuff in the center of them, with no explicit consent from the lady in their center, since i fear the potential of delivering more damage her way, together with more support. I haven't got Adria's accept to talk about her story. My preference, when i told Julie yesterday, ended up being to give Adria the chance to talk about her story here, assuming she am inclined. That's still my preference. But.But, since yesterday, I have seen a lot bullshit being discussed her, frequently from ostensible allies, which isn't fucking supportive—which tone-polices her, which begrudgingly confesses she was right but must have gone about this another way, which calls her directly on the merits but nonetheless unlikable, etc. Fuck. Just fuck.Adria's site continues to be within DOS attack, however i encourage you, strongly, whenever you'll be able to access her site, to see her account of the items happened and her taken into consideration choices about whether and just how to do something.Her piece is known as "Forking and Dongle Jokes Don't Belong at Tech Conferences," which the title of the piece is really a play. Because, yes, forking and dongle jokes don't belong at tech conferences, and Adria Richards does. The finish. No qualifications. No caveats. No urgent have to express my discomfort together with her tone or her approach to action.I unilaterally support Adria Richards.The males who have been making sexual jokes and creating a hazardous space in a professional conference in specific breach from the code of conduct were wrong. I don't support them.Those who taken care of immediately Adria's public report of harassers by demeaning her approach to action were wrong. I don't support them.Those who are bullying, bothering, and making violent risks against Adria are wrong. I don't support them.Her employer, SendGrid, who fired her for becoming the middle of a shitstorm triggered by bothering fuckwads, are wrong. I don't support them.Conversations, and those who ask them to, that center picking apart the fast choices that any lady makes in just a minute of experienced sexual harassment, centering concern for harassers, are wrong. I don't support them. I support hollerin' the fuck back. And I don't support the concept that only pleasant women are permitted to attract firm limitations. Particularly when I understand in addition to any lady and than most that nothing constitutes a lady more "unlikable" than drawing firm limitations. I'm onto your Can't-Win game, apologists. And I won't play.I support Adria Richards.

I Write Letters

[Content Note: Homophobia.] Dear Holy Father Your Sophistication Pope Francis,After reading through regarding your "pragmatism" with regards to same-sex unions, I'm confused.Shall We Be Held designed to as if you better because, nowadays, you had been prepared to voice support for civil unions, while openly calling gay marriage the job from the demon and adoption by same sex couples child abuse?I'm sincerely wishing you are able to obvious this up for me personally.Not Yours,Aphra

Daily Dose of Cute

"Urgle burgle!"I must say i have no clue wtf face she was making after i required this picture, however it helped me laugh for tens of millions of years. She's the goofiest cat which has ever resided.Of course, please feel welcome and urged to talk about pix from the fuzzy, feathered, or scaly people of ones own in comments.

Daily Dose of Cute

Zelda the American RoundybutthoundDudley the GreyhoundAs always, please feel welcome and urged to talk about pix from the fuzzy, feathered, or scaly people of ones own in comments.

Sunday Shuffle

The Pogues 1000's Are SailingAnd you?

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Parliament: "Quit the Funk (Tear the rooftop from the Sucker)"

Daily Dose of Cute

Sophie, professional cute factor.Of course, please feel welcome and urged to talk about pix from the fuzzy, feathered, or scaly people of ones own in comments.

"I'm not a sixth grader."

Something Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) really needed to say around the Congressional record today, because Senator Ted Cruz (R) was speaking to her like she was one. [Content Note: Gun violence.]Cruz, an old constitutional law professor, started [a hearing on legislation to reinstate the government assault weapons prohibit] by saying servings of the very first, Second, and 4th Changes, and requested Feinstein if the energy of presidency to limit certain kinds of guns could be equally appropriate given individuals provisions."Allow me to simply make a few points in reaction,Inch Feinstein shot back in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "One, I am not really a sixth grader. Senator, I have been in this committee for 25 years. I had been a mayor for nine years." [Feinstein the referred to good examples of brutal gun violence that she's had experience.] "I am not really a lawyer, but after two decades I have been close up and private towards the Metabolic rate. I've great respect for this. This does not imply that weapons of war and also the Heller decision clearly highlights three exceptions, a couple of that are pertinent here."Feinstein ongoing: "It's fine you need to lecture me around the Metabolic rate. I be thankful. Just know I have been for a very long time. I have handed down numerous bills. I have analyzed the Metabolic rate myself. I'm reasonably well educated, and that i appreciate the lecture. ... I originate from another place than you need to do. I respect your sights. I request you to definitely respect my sights."The panel approved the balance on the party line election, 10 - 8. The legislation now moves fully Senate, where it's broadly likely to fail.Following the election, Feinstein made nice."Senator, I wish to apologize for you, you kind of experienced my dander up," she stated.So far as I am concerned, it ought to happen to be Cruz apologizing to Feinstein. She owed him only contempt.

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Crash Test Idiot's: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"

Open Thread

Located by Glinda.

Sure

Joe Lieberman to become listed on conservative think tank. Sounds about right.

Quote of the Day

"I believe in almost any organization where women aren't while dining, where it's skewed male in present day era, that's a business that's deficient. That's a business that will have issues. It's among the problems we've structurally within the Republican Party. We do not have enough women while dining. But any organization, any business in present day era that does not give equal chance to women, that does not advance women towards the table, will probably be a business which has difficulty competing."—Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, on Satisfy the Press yesterday.That's a positive thing to state! However, this really is, obviously, not only a problem of institutional structure. It's a problem of systemic marginalization by means of established misogyny, whether that's obstinately pervasive harassment of ladies in Corporate America or promoting guidelines which are deeply hostile to women's agency and consent within the Republican Party.It is also an problem that's not solved by tokenism. Schmidt, obviously, was the brains [sic] behind nominating Sarah Palin towards the vice-presidency. It will fuck-all for the goal of significant inclusion for ladies to champion ladies who want to act as Exceptional Lady while indicating contempt for that very concepts of inclusion that produced possibilities on their behalf.Obviously, the GOP is busily driving women like Senator Olympia Snowe from the party.

This Isn't Disturbing at All

Let us all watch this presen of Leonardo DiCaprio carrying out a Jack Nicholson impression on the Japanese talk show until our heads explode:Or don't. STARE In Internet Marketing! Or Close This Article Close This Article AHHHH Close This Article! Whatever enables you to happy. Existence is brief.But hopefully we are able to all agree that's some uncanny shit.[Via Vulture.]

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

[Content Note: The lyrics of the song include storytelling about making it through violent racism and misogyny.]Nina Simone, "Four Women."

Drones, Continued

So, this happened:Whitened House press secretary Jay Carney on Thursday attempted to offer relaxation a being applied debate over Leader Barack Obama's drone policy, stating in obvious terms the leader does not possess the legal authority to, hypothetically, order drone bombings of People in america on U.S. soil.Throughout his daily briefing, Carney read aloud a brief letter that went Thursday mid-day from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who fought a 13-hour filibuster on Wednesday over Obama's secret utilization of drones to handle specific killings. Through the effort, Paul, together with twelve other Republican senators, required to understand whether Obama thought he'd the authority to order drone bombings of U.S. people on U.S soil.Carney stated the reply is no."It's arrived at attention you have now requested one more question: 'Does the leader have the legal right to make use of a weaponized drone to kill a united states not involved in combat on American soil?,'" Carney read aloud. "The response to that real question is no."Naturally, my immediate response was: However the leader comes with the legal right to make use of a weaponized drone to kill a united states who's really or assumed to become involved in combat on American soil? Because, um.I am sure I am just being silly. It isn't like the federal government would ever define "enemy combatants" so vaguely regarding seem to leave room for ideological competitors of the sitting administration to qualify. ' ' it isn't like there's have you been an administration, and I am there should never be again, who spoke people people to be traitors for dissenting having a (terrible) national policy decision. It isn't just like a leader saying "you are around or against us" was ever a fucking real factor on the planet.The Federal government is setting a precedent to have an authority no administration should have, plus some less so than the others.For that record: I oppose using drones on people outdoors america, too.

Open Thread

Located by Bengali.

More Terrible Republican Ideas

[Content Note: Domestic violence sexuality regulating.]This past year, when covering Congressional Republicans' objections towards the reauthorization from the Violence Against Women Act, I wryly noted the GOP was keen to safeguard the sanctity of traditional domestic violence.Showing that once more the Republican Party is beyond parody, an invoice being considered through the Iowa condition House would "stop [married] parents of minor children from obtaining a 'no-fault' divorce" and would require married parents of minor children "to exhibit a spouse was responsible for infidelity, have been delivered to prison on the criminal offence conviction, had physically or sexually mistreated someone in the household, or had abandoned the household not less than annually.InchNo-fault divorce is really a critical tool for mistreated partners, and/or children being mistreated by one parent, but there's a segment from the population—insert a Venn diagram protecting homophobic conservatives and MRAs—that routinely mischaracterizes no-fault divorce like a mechanism of egregious envy preferred by capricious, guy-disliking, vengeful moms that do not worry about their kids. Therefore we get stupid Think about the kids! rationalizations for attempting to unwind a vital legal victory for mistreated ladies and children. (And males, too.)A 3-member subcommittee debated the balance today. Representative Tedd Gassman, a Republican from Scarville, stated he's worried about the negative impact divorce is wearing children."For me, it's the perfect time to look for the kids rather than constantly fretting about the grown ups," Gassman stated.Not to mention, what Gassman strategies by "look[ing] out for him or herInch is tasking fathers with regulating their daughters' sexuality, so that they don't become dirty sluts."This essentially is definitely an attempt on my small part to help keep fathers in your home,Inch Gassman stated. "I sincerely think that the household may be the first step toward this nation which nation goes the direction in our families. If our families split up, same goes with this nation."…Representative Gassman stated the problem is "near and dear" to his heart because his daughter and boy-in-law lately divorced, putting his daughter in danger.InchThere is a 16-year-old girl within this whole mix now. You know what? Do you know the options of her being more promiscuous?" Gassman stated. "Do you know the options of other things surrounding her existence that the 16-year-old girl, with the body's hormones raging, could possibly get herself into?"I'd be so thrilled basically were Gassman's daughter or daughter, hearing this blowhard justify an invoice that will abet abuse by openly talking about my marriage and/or sexuality. Which would be to say nothing from the horrendo framework that 16-year-old women "get themselves into" challenge with their "raging the body's hormones."Anyway. Many people spoke sense in Iowa in reaction for this absurd proposal:Rachel Scott from the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence told congress the alterations suggested frequently make houses a far more harmful place."One thing that you've seen with places where there's fault divorce could it be gets worse tension and conflict backward and forward people," Scott stated.Representative Marti Anderson, a Democrat from Des Moines who opposes the balance, stated the strain in her own childhood home survived eight years, until her parents divorced when fault needed to be proven."The stay-together time was very, very harmful to my loved ones,Inch stated Anderson — the earliest of 4 children, "and even though we are all grown ups now, I am unsure anybody have ever really become past that."Karl Schilling from the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance stated no-fault divorce would be a carefully crafted solution to cope with individuals type of problems.Bad Republicans haven't seen a carefully crafted solution they did not wish to annihilate the fuck from.

Seen

[Content Note: Violent body fat hate.]Seen: This decal around the vehicle parked beside us in the supermarket a few days ago:Yet another little bit of detritus thrown throughout my every single day telling me that numerous thin people think the idea of my being strongly slaughtered is really a totes amusing punchline.Also? I understand lots of body fat runners who scoff within this decal's general direction.

Sequestration Impacts, by State

This introduction to sequestration impacts, condition-by-condition by category, is super helpful. It's also super depressing.[H/T to my pal A.]

Elementary

[Spoiler Warning: Particulars of latest instances of Elementary are revealed within this publish.]So, Ana Mardoll and that i virtually talk nonstop about our passion for Elementary, CBS' new A Virtual Detective series starring Jonny Lee Burns as Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson. I am talking about, we're able to discuss this show FOREVER, and we'll, within this thread the following, simply by ourselves, unless of course you come along. So come along!I'm still super-loving this show, and also the recent episode by which Holmes finally asked Watson to become his partner was certainly one of my personal favorite instances of television ever. All Of The BLUBS! I additionally loved Vinnie Johnson (VINNIE Johnson!) as Moriarty's minion. Who's Going To Experience MORIARTY?! I really hope it is a lady! Actually, I really hope it's Thandie Newton, who'd be this type of perfect kickass enemy for Holmes and that i can't get free from my mind that they will be the perfect Moriarty! I am talking about, Irene has already been dead within this series, so Holmes doesn't have female rival who's his equal. Allow it to be so, Elementary!If Moriarty needs to be considered a dude, I'd find Damien Lewis a suitable selection. For that record.And therefore are we have ever likely to see Sherlock's father? Or Mycroft? WHO Are Likely To PLAY SHERLOCK'S Father AND BROTHER?! Clearly, Malcolm McDowell and Colin Firth, right? Clearly.Anyway. Two more a few things i love:1. I really like that as Holmes and Watson have more synchronized with each other, they progressively put on exactly the same colors and/or similar designs. That's a really subtle but very brilliant commentary around the advancement of their partnership!2. I really like that Holmes never states, "Elementary, oh my gosh Watson." That'll be the final line of year, right? Right.Discuss.

Daily Dose of Cute

Dudley, hugging together with his raccoon.Of course, please feel welcome and urged to talk about pix from the fuzzy, feathered, or scaly people of ones own in comments.

Launder That Fat Away, Ladies!

[Content Note: Body fat hate racism classism.]So, there's research going online making the totally-fresh and completely-new declare that American women are body fat because we spend all day long working at desk jobs and through the night watching tv to wind down, instead of half a century ago when existence only agreed to be like Allow Beaver and ladies never labored outdoors the house and spent all day long wrestling with forty-pound vacuums: One good reason a lot of American women are overweight might be that we're cleaning and doing laundry less frequently, according to a different study that, while scrupulously even-handed, will probably stir debate and feelings...."Half a century ago, most women didn't work outdoors of the house,Inch stated Edward Archer, a study fellow using the Arnold School of Public Health in the College of Sc in Columbia, and lead author from the new study.So, together with most of the authors from the earlier study of work exercise, Dr. Archer set to find data about how exactly women had once spent their hrs both at home and whether and just how their designs of motion had transformed through the years.Correct from the softball bat, I am just likely to put aside the entire problematic facet of while using words "most women" when that which was really meant is "a area of the population, composed mainly of upper-class, wealthy, married, whitened women" when talking about what type of work women did or did not do within the sixties. I am just likely to place a little pin labeled "racist and classist presumptions" and hang that aside there. I am furthermore likely to put aside the absurdly terrible science of calculating one small part of the variations within the lives of yankee Women From The sixties versus American Women From The 2010s -- particularly, the length of time they report doing house work -- and taking advantage of that certain small aspect to try and explain a supposed trend of putting on weight as if a correlation forwards and backwards suggests any kind of causation and as if there cannot often be every other distinction between both of these categories of people, and as if controlling for individuals variations (which totes don't exist anyway!) is really much optional nonsense. And furthermore as if self-confirming articles are the epitome of accurate scientific measurement. I am just likely to stick just a little pin labeled "horrifically soft science" for the reason that bundle of awful and hang them back aside using the other. And I am also likely to put aside the laughable selection of thoroughly calculating the length of time an array of women allocated to "house work" while deliberately selecting to disregard time spent doing child care activities, as if the job made by women housewives consists entirely of "cleaning, cooking, and doing laundry" and little else and as if time that modern women save consequently of technological advances in laundry techniques is not and could not often be reinvested into other kinds of active house work beyond "cleaning, cooking, and doing laundry". That certain gets just a little pin known as "mendacious bullshit" and hang off aside using its cousins. So, okay? I am just likely to invest that aside for a second.Simply because I wish to share this anecdote from Barbara Ehrenreich (who I wish to acknowledge is completely problematic in places, although that's this is not on-subject with this thread), who really labored like a professional housekeeper included in her research on her book Nickel and Dimed, and who particularly noted how painful and physically harmful house work could be:So ours is an enormous amount of pain—managed by Excedrin and Advil, paid out for with cigarettes and, in a couple of cases after which only on weekends, with booze. Perform the proprietors be aware of from the misery which goes into rendering their houses motel-perfect? Are they going to be bothered when they did know, or are they going to have a sadistic pride in what they've purchased—boasting to dinner visitors, for instance, their flooring are washed just with the purest of fresh human tears? In a single of my couple of trades by having an owner, a pert muscular lady whose desk discloses that they works part-time like a fitness expert, I'm cleaning and she or he notices the sweat. “That’s a genuine workout, is it not?” she observes, not unkindly, and really offers us a glass water, the only real such offer I ever encounter. Flouting the rule from the ingestion of anything while in the house, I'm guessing, departing one inch undrunk to prevent the clumsiness of the possible refill offer. “I tell my clients,” the trainer notifies me, “‘If you need to be fit, just fire your cleaning lady and do-it-yourself.’” “Ho ho,” is I only say, since we’re not only talking during a workout session together and that i can’t explain this type of being active is totally asymmetrical, extremely repetitive, so that as prone to destroy the bone and joint structure regarding strengthen it.And I wish to take the time to notice how truly contemptible I've found the suggestion that activities which could destroy womens' physiques and that have been typically utilized by a misogynist society like a tool to oppress ladies and prevent them from attaining financial independence, support systems, and significant work -- You cannot hold employment, honey, because then wouldso would the home get clean? -- ought to be organized towards the readers as something which ladies have an obligation to complete to be able to be attractive and much more healthy and most importantly more socially acceptable towards the bigger community. That's some contemptible garbage.(Hat tip to Shaker Danielle.)