Trigger warning. Trigger warnings are customary in some feminist and other spaces.
They are designed to prevent people who have an extremely strong and damaging emotional response (for example, post-traumatic flashbacks or urges to harm themselves) to certain subjects from encountering them unaware. Having these responses is called "being triggered". Content which is widely agreed by feminist blogs and fandom writers to be warned for: graphic descriptions of or extensive discussion of abuse, especially sexual abuse or torture graphic descriptions of or extensive discussion of self-harming behaviour such as suicide, self-inflicted injuries or disordered eating depictions, especially lengthy or psychologically realistic ones, of the mental state of someone suffering abuse or engaging in self-harming behaviour discussion of eating-disordered behavior or body shaming These are more extensive than the mainstream media observes.
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Unbreakable. You may have noticed that Project Unbreakable has been pretty quiet lately.
For a few months now, those of us at Unbreakable have been making some pretty big life changes, and we have had to figure out where Unbreakable is placed. It has been a very long and incredible journey, but we are saddened to say that we will be closing our doors. We will finish posting all the submissions we have, but after we run out, we are no longer going to be accepting submissions for the website (but everything will remain up – we aren’t deleting anything.) We hope you understand, and we are grateful for your support. A note from Grace: I can’t really sum up almost 4 years of doing this project and I am having a very difficult time writing this. I would be lying if I said that the rumors from other activists about my integrity didn’t get to me. But that is not why I am leaving the project. Please take care of yourselves. Bitch Flicks: On Rape, the Media, and the New York Times Clusterfuck.
STFU Catcallers. For the record: It makes me unhappy when people mention what they were wearing when talking about catcallers, because that just reinforces the idea, however subconsciously, that revealing clothes somehow mitigate harassment.
However, I *will* talk about what I had on when this whole thing happened, because it’s a sad, sad example of how wearing something revealing apparently makes you a free-for-all for sexual advances. I spent part of my college career in Southern California, adapting to the local customs and adopting the local dress code, including the shorts. Teeny tiny itsy bitsy shorts. I never had much trouble with that. People don’t usually bother me much because I’m pretty clear about wanting to be left alone, and for the most part that’s enough. However, this fateful Superbowl day, I was walking over to a friend’s house wearing a pair of shorts I knew got me the wrong kind of attention, because I liked them, damnit.
I started regretting it. Sex Harassment - What on Earth Is That? Women bloggers call for a stop to 'hateful' trolling by misogynist men. Laurie Penny is one of a number of women writers who have decided to go public with their concerns.
Photograph: Guardian Crude insults, aggressive threats and unstinting ridicule: it's business as usual in the world of website news commentary – at least for the women who regularly contribute to the national debate. The frequency of the violent online invective – or "trolling" – levelled at female commentators and columnists is now causing some of the best known names in journalism to hesitate before publishing their opinions. As a result, women writers across the political spectrum are joining to call for a stop to the largely anonymous name-calling. The columnist Laurie Penny, who writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Independent, has decided to reveal the amount of abuse she receives in an effort to persuade online discussion forums to police threatening comments more effectively. The author and feminist writer Natasha Walter has also been deterred. Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men's Magazine And A Rapist?
Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced « Shapely Prose. Phaedra Starling is the pen name of a romance novelist and licensed private investigator living in small New York City apartment with two large dogs. She practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu and makes world-class apricot muffins. Gentlemen. Thank you for reading. Let me start out by assuring you that I understand you are a good sort of person. You are kind to children and animals. So far, so good. Now, you want to become acquainted with a woman you see in public. “But wait! Well, no. So when you, a stranger, approach me, I have to ask myself: Will this man rape me?
Reddit's Pedophilia Posse And The Return Of Jailbait.