Tag: rape

• The Tragedy of the Commons’ Body: Daniel Tosh and Breastfeeding

  By now, every one of you knows about the woman who called Daniel Tosh out on attempting to make light of rape who was then subsequently threatened with gang rape. You probably have already read your favorite point of view on how to react to this story in a few different blogs and other online…

  creatingcarrie

  19/07/2012

  Gender

  abuse, barbara kruger, battle, breastfeeding, current-events, daniel tosh, feeding babies, female audience, feminism, gang rape, Gender, hierarchy, outrage, politics, rape, rape jokes, social control, the commons, tragedy of the commons, war, women

• Legitimate Use of Violence

  While Tumblring yesterday, I came across a lovely article detailing how a police officer, while trying to remove a rape survivor from her boyfriend’s home, decided to use his legitimate force in order to get her to cooperate. He punched her in the eye. She wouldn’t leave the apartment because she wanted a female officer…

  creatingcarrie

  01/03/2012

  GBV

  GBV, karma, legitimate force, news, police brutality, rape, San Antonio, texas, violence

• Rape Culture Excuses Itself

  In Saturday’s International Herald Tribune, Lisa Shannon has a great piece on why excusing mass rape in Congo as part of “their culture” is ridiculous and dangerous. It is hard article to read, for me because I do not like feeling complicit in another person’s suffering, and that is what my culture is doing to…

  creatingcarrie

  28/06/2010

  Gender, Politics

  boys will be boys, complicity, Congo, culture, excuses, rape