The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘Highly Intoxicated Vaginal Penetration’: #RapeCulture and Campus Reality

“Both sides agreed that Mr. Gilbert and the victim were at best acquaintances; both sides agreed he entered her room uninvited that night, in a highly intoxicated state, and both sides agreed that he initiated sexual contact which included vaginal penetration with the victim while she was asleep.” — “Joint Statement,” New Hampshire Coalition Against […]

#RapeCulture: Did Anybody Notice This?

Donald Douglas has mentioned how radical feminist Professor Caroline Heldman is stoking “rape culture” paranoia at Occidental College. Meanwhile, the violent oppression of women continues: A Lynwood gang member was sentenced Monday, March 31, to 30 years in federal prison for running a sex-trafficking ring that recruited girls from Inland high schools. Paul Edward Bell, […]

Internet Douchebag Patrol

Look, it’s not as if there were a shortage of actual news for me to blog about today. For example, my friend Shaun McCutcheon won a landmark Supreme Court decision today, and there’s all kinds of commentary about McCutcheon v. FEC. Here is a guy from Alabama who has bought me beers whose name is […]

‘Unintentionally Heteronormative’!

Readers will please pardon my long silence this evening, but I was doing deep research on (yet another) long post about feminism, the completion of which will have to wait because . . . this: Emily Nagoski is a Ph.D. “college health educator in Massachusetts.” Both an atheist and a progressive, Nagoski has “worked for […]

Sexual Equality, Sexual Decadence: The Emerging Menace of Female Predators

Christy Smith had sex with a 15-year-old boy. “A jury has found a former Lancaster County teacher guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old student in 2008. “It took less than an hour for the jury to return with the verdict Wednesday against 35-year-old Christy Smith. “The jury convicted her of four counts including sexual […]

Perjurer … Pedophile … Lawsuit

What are the elements of a great news story? Well, President Clinton is a perjurer who lied under oath in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein is reportedly a pedophile who had sex with underage prostitutes. And a lawsuit has brought out new details of the friendship between Clinton and Epstein: A new lawsuit […]

Hey, Stop Raping Fat Chicks!

Peter Paul Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618) This public service announcement should not be necessary, but unfortunately there seems to be some confusion on the subject: Rape culture is prevalent, insidious, and normalized in our culture. . . Fat women face an extra special facet of rape culture though — the fact […]

Of Course, It’s Florida: Teenage Boy Goes to Gay Nightclub and Gets Butt-Raped

Look, I don’t want to get into any slut-shaming, victim-blaming or homophobia here. But some things can only happen in Florida: For 18 minutes, Justin Hand looks into the camera and recounts how he was raped. In two videos on YouTube titled “I Was Raped Last Sunday,” the 18-year-old Hand (he turns 19 next week) […]

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