Combat de rue Souvent masqué sous le couvert des compliments, le harcèlement de rue est une forme de violence encore tolérée. Et qu’il faut combattre. Quatre fois par semaine, dans les rues de mon quartier, je cours. Pour garder la forme, me défouler, décompresser, pour le sentiment grisant de liberté que ça me procure. Pas une femme; une chicks, une poulette, une volaille sans cervelle. Non, ce n’est pas un événement isolé. Le harcèlement de rue est alimenté par une tendance dominante dans la publicité, la musique pop et le cinéma, où le corps des femmes est instrumentalisé, devenu un objet sexuel offert à tous les regards, disponible pour les hommes. Le harcèlement de rue est pernicieux : cette forme de violence se vit quotidiennement, sans être considérée comme telle. Combattre le mythe Au Québec, un certain discours renforce et célèbre le mythe de l’égalité-déjà-là. Et si on ne se taisait plus devant ces attaques? Sur la Toile Vivez-vous, au Québec, du harcèlement de rue?
Eve Ensler: Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You to Imagine... Dear Todd Akin, I am writing to you tonight about rape. It is 2 AM and I am unable to sleep here in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I am in Bukavu at the City of Joy to serve and support and work with hundreds, thousands of women who have been raped and violated and tortured from this ceaseless war for minerals fought on their bodies. I am in Congo but I could be writing this from anywhere in the United States, South Africa, Britain, Egypt, India, Philippines, most college campuses in America. I could be writing from any city or town or village where over half a billion women on the planet are raped in their lifetime. Mr. As a rape survivor, I am reeling from your recent statement where you said you misspoke when you said that women do not get pregnant from legitimate rape, and that you were speaking "off the cuff." Clarification. You used the expression "legitimate" rape as if to imply there were such a thing as "illegitimate" rape. Here's what I want you to do. #ReasonToRise
Joystick : apologie du viol et culture du machisme Retour de Mar_Lard, pour un coup de gueule contre Joystick, un magazine de référence sur les jeux vidéo. (TRIGGER WARNING : Cet article contient des références explicites au viol et aux agressions sexuelles.) EDIT: le magazine Joystick a publié une réponse sur sa page Facebook. Laissez-moi vous conter une histoire. Hier, alors qu’en route pour visiter sa Mère-Grand elle attendait innocemment son train, la douce et pure @NeukdeSogoul s’aventura dans la forêt obscure du kiosque à journaux. Et elle fut édifiée. Comme elle sait que je kiffe la misogynie et encore plus dans mes jeux vidéo, elle m’a signalé le dossier en question. Ca vous donne une idée si je vous dis qu’en tant que gameuse passionnée ET féministe j’ai une certaine habitude de la misogynie bien enracinée dans le milieu, mais que pour lire ces dix malheureuses pages j’ai dû m’y prendre à plusieurs fois tellement j’avais envie de gerber ? Donc on va en parler. Ouais Joystick tu vas un peu prendre pour tout le monde là. Ouep. J'aime :
Against “Asking For It”: Another Anti-Rape Ad Aimed at Men by Lisa Wade, PhD, Mar 23, 2013, at 12:00 pm Re-posted to add to the discussion about sexual assault in the aftermath of the Steubenville rape trial, the Senate hearing on rape and harassment in the military, and the controversy at Occidental College. On the heels of our recent post about an anti-rape ad that did the unusual — target men and tell then not to rape — comes this Scottish ad, sent along by Sociologist Michael Kimmel, that does a fantastic job of mocking the idea that some women are “asking for it”:
Welcome to Rape Culture: Sex with Drunk Girls is Funny by Lisa Wade, PhD, Sep 17, 2010, at 10:43 am As Anthropologist Peggy Sanday has shown, societies can be more or less rape-free or rape-prone. A rape-prone society is characterized by a rape culture, one in which women’s desires are unimportant and emotional, psychological, and physical sexual coercion is normative. In the U.S., pressuring or convincing women into sex is, in fact, well-tolerated. Claire B. and Sylvia M. sent in matching sartorial testaments to the dismissal of the requirement that women consent to sex. This second t-shirt (text below) is sold on Amazon.com: Text: two beers $7 three margaritas $15 four jello shots $20 Taking home the girl who drank all of the above… Priceless
Another Fashion Ad Implies Sexual Violence by Gwen Sharp, PhD, Nov 25, 2010, at 01:40 pm An anonymous frequent reader sent in this Calvin Klein jeans ad that has been removed from billboards in Australia after the Advertising Standards Bureau banned its display on the grounds that it implies sexual assault. I’m putting it after the jump because it might be triggering for some people. According to the Daily Mail, the Bureau said the image is offensive to both men and women. “The Board considered that whilst the act depicted could be consensual, the overall impact and most likely impression is that the scene is suggestive of violence and rape,” he said. Reminds me a lot of the infamous Dolce & Gabbana ad. When the Perpetrator Goes Free and the Victim Is Imprisoned Feminism | Posted by Rosamund C on 01/17/2011 the punishment for being raped? It seems impossible but it’s true: although her sentence has just been overturned, in Britain recently, a woman was sent to jail for accusing her husband of rape, then retracting the accusation. Although this story has received little coverage except in The Guardian, a left-wing daily national, it caught my eye at once. The story goes like this: the woman, ‘Sarah’, was being repeatedly abused by her husband. One night, after brutally raping her, she summoned up the courage to dial 999 and her husband, ‘Ray’, was arrested. After Ray was arrested, Sarah was put under increasing pressure to retract the rape allegation. For most people, it would be obvious that a rape victim suddenly retracting her allegation would require more investigation, particularly because the police and CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) knew the background details of the case, including the fact that Ray had abused Sarah before. Loading ...
Raped policeman: 'I never thought I would be a victim' | UK news I've been a police officer for two decades and a detective, specialising in serious crime and sexual offences, for 15 years. Never once in all the time I've investigated these horrific crimes has it occurred to me that one day I would be a victim; that I would be raped – and that I would refuse to help the police investigate. But a couple of weeks ago, I made a series of choices that led to me, a heterosexual man, waking up in a man's bed, trapped underneath him. Being raped. I'm still struggling to come to terms with how, despite my decades of professional experience, I made the choices that led to me being raped. At no point the evening before had I felt at risk. I also never anticipated using the service the police provide to rape victims. It's hard to accept that a couple of weeks ago everything was normal. As the afternoon turned into evening, people began peeling off from the group. After a while, I got chatting to a group around the bar. Then my memory tails off again.
Sexual Violence on Campus: The Damage Done When I was a sophomore at a small, liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest, I wrote an article in the campus newspaper that upset some men in my dorm because it mentioned vandalism and harassment that had occurred there. I knew that they were upset because they broke into my room, stole my private journal and scattered photos that I kept in my desk on the drinking fountain down the hall. They also wrote “Die Amy” in marker on the wall and scrawled the words “I’m going to rape you” on the dry-erase board that hung on my door. My first reaction to this was sheer embarrassment and self-blame. But If I could send a letter to my undergraduate self, I’d tell her to take photos of everything. A few days before the incident, I had seen some of the men in my dorm opening other students’ locked doors from the outside with a coat hanger. I was one of the lucky ones. Photo from Flickr user Lyndi&Jason licensed under Creative Commons.
“Rape Is Rape”: Joe Biden Channels Ms. Magazine Cover Last night in a speech at the University of New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden affirmed what feminists have known for decades: “Rape is rape is rape.” Here at Ms., we couldn’t agree more. As a matter of fact, that sentiment is smack dab on the front of our newest cover, which has just rolled off the presses. (It’s as if Vice President Biden saw a copy!) Biden is getting this message out to students as part of his much-needed new federal initiative to prevent sexual violence on campuses. In fact, being drunk at the time doesn’t mean you weren’t raped; quite the opposite. Yet this woman’s experience with her university is a disturbingly common story. Inside the issue, in an exclusive new investigation, Ms. reveals why rape isn’t always counted as rape by the FBI and local police departments. We need to raise our voices to change the Uniform Crime Report. You can also visit Ms. and the Feminist Majority Foundation’s No More Excuses!
She Drinks, She Flirts, She Passes Out … Is It Rape? Trigger warning: Material about sexual assault. Around midnight at a college party, several young women soccer players are alerted that a 17-year-old girl is barricaded in a room with eight guys on the baseball team. Through a window, the women glimpse what looks like an assault. They batter down the door and, as the men disperse, find a young, semi-conscious woman on her back, unmoving and naked from the waist down. Vomit trickles from her mouth down the side of her face and collects in a pool. The women lift up the teen, wipe the vomit from her face, carry her to their car and drive her to a hospital. This is the scene the soccer players and other witnesses describe at a De Anza College party in San Jose four years ago. The case has just been tried in civil court because the Santa Clara, Calif., district attorney felt there was not enough evidence to criminally prosecute, since all involved were drunk. In civil court, witnesses for the defense supplied other details. Is it rape?
Did The New York Times Blame the 11-Year-Old Victim of a Texas Gang Rape? There is so much that is horrid with regard to this story coming out of small-town East Texas: 18 men and teenage boys have been arrested in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, TX. There’s what Feministing’s Chloe Angyal noted, that those quoted in the article seem strangely concerned with how participating in a gang rape is gonna be a real downer for the rapists (now that they’ve been caught). From The New York Times’ article: The case has rocked this East Texas community to its core and left many residents in the working-class neighborhood where the attack took place with unanswered questions. Among them is, if the allegations are proved, how could their young men have been drawn into such an act?“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. But then there’s the victim blaming. McKinley’s on Twitter. And here’s a Change.org petition for you to sign.