Posts tagged ‘rape culture’

Trigger warning for quoted rape threats.

To date, the most interesting question about why the campaign against rape pages on Facebook is ‘Do you think Facebook will change its policies as a result of this campaign?’ Jane Osmond found herself saying ‘yes’.

Trigger warning for rape culture rhetoric, and use of rape language as a joke. This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: What would a geek feminist do about this sign, which ...

Talk on June 15 at Melbourne University: Dr Cathy Foley, 100 years later: has anything changed for women in science?: This talk will look at what is the status of women in science in Australia, ...

Counting Colored Cash: there’s plenty of successful media with central characters of color, there’s plenty of whitewashed/all-white media that flops. So why the myth that all-white/whitewashing is just good business? Trigger warning Resistance Is Useful: ...

Chemistry and danger and pretty colours! All the ingredients of the perfect geek hobby. Have you seen Lauredhel’s series on soapmaking? The Setup, The Making, The Day After, Finis. She also runs a community for ...

[Trigger warning: as you probably realized from the title, this post discusses the (overuse) of rape in fantasy settings] I’m going to start with saying that I thought the Penny Arcade comic was actually pretty ...

[Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault in games and comedy and sexual slavery] Wednesday’s Penny Arcade told this joke where a hero insisted on leaving a rape victim in his own personal hell. Why? ...

John Scalzi’s post on the failure mode of “clever” is “asshole” seems awfully obvious given the number of really appallingly terrible pickup lines that people’ve tried to use on me as a geek woman. Just ...

Lightgetsin rants in The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while: Also, the next person to tell me to get a Kindle . . . really shouldn’t. The Kindle occasionally reads ...

Lyz Krumbach writes “Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?” to answer the question of whether and how women’s groups help. A great article about 5th grade girls visiting Yahoo! ...

Via Hoyden who link to IO9′s post on the subject. When is rape not rape? When it’s a supervillain pretending to be Peter Parker and having sex with Parker’s roommate, who thinks she’s having sex ...