Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Roll up, roll up and gawp at Jack's victims

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Yesterday, the local news reported that another young woman had been fatally stabbed in my home city of Bristol.  Today, another local...
Friday, 17 July 2015

Why do we show rapists empathy, and not their victims?

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It’s a mark of how much our society struggles to see women as fully human who deserve respect and who have a right to bodily autonomy when ...
Sunday, 5 July 2015

When men get to be fully human, and women are just objects to use and abuse

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Oh no! I hear you cry. Not you too. You're not weighing in on *that* video are you?  Well, take your oh noes with you. Yes I am kin...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Playboy Feminism TM isn't feminism, it's the same old misogyny

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No one wants to be ugly. No one wants to be the unsexy one. No one wants to be rejected.  And that, I think, is what makes this weird p...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Emergency contraception and the shaming of women

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Ella One , a type of ‘morning after pill’ has been licensed for under-16s to use in the UK – a positive move in my book that gives girls ac...
Tuesday, 16 June 2015

For Everyday Victim Blaming: When is a murder not a murder?

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I wrote something for Everyday Victim Blaming about the use of 'domestic incident' to describe fatal male violence. When is a murd...
Monday, 8 June 2015

For Indy Voices: Stop blaming drunk rape victims and start teaching people about consent

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I wrote something new for Indy Voices. Stop blaming drunk rape victims and start teaching people about consent The comments, man. THE...