The other night, my bear asked if he could discuss with me this post, where I talk about (among other things) the victim-blaming ramifications of telling a woman to change her behavior to avoid rape. He was conflicted. On the one hand, he totally agreed with me. It is not a woman’s fault if she’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ally’
Stuff What Boys Can Do
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ally, misogyny, rape, rape prevention on September 18, 2009 | 16 Comments »
A thing that bothers me sometimes
Posted in race, white people, tagged ally, hispanic, identity, white people on October 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m Hispanic. About a fourth, maybe a little more, maybe a little less (my family hasn’t kept very good track). My maternal grandfather, who I never knew, came over from Spain with his parents when he was a child. My grandfather was a race car driver who knocked up my grandma when she was really [...]
Okay, so I have been drinking
Posted in abuse, feminism, rape, tagged ally, distancing behaviors, friends of rape victims, misogyny, rape, sexism, sexual assault on October 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This blog was recently featured on the Carnival of Sexual Violence; specifically, this entry, about losing a friend due to talking about rape. Since then, some other folk have linked me, and my blog is now exploding on another entry about a similar topic. As a result (also, there is bourbon involved) I’ve spent the [...]
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