#rape culture

You never know what’s going to happen when you go to the bar, someone could spill their drink on you, you could make new friends or you could have $2000 stolen from your account. A bar patron gained unintentional internet fame after a drunk woman stole the large sum of money from his Venmo account.

You aren’t one of those people who think someone can ever be responsible for being raped or assaulted. You know that no one is ever actually ‘asking for it.’ You know that rape is always the fault of the rapist. But there are some people who haven’t quite figured it out yet. Addressing them, New

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These are the poisoned fruits of a neofeudal system in which power, wealth and political influence are concentrated in the apex of the wealth-power pyramid. Stripped of pretense, ours is a culture of rape. Apologists for the system that spawned

I hate talking about it. I hate talking about it because I know what will happen. Once you know I'm a survivor, you will mentally shove me into a box where I don't belong and I'll never be allowed out — ever. I hate talking about it because I know that without wanting to your mind will wonder what

Rape, the way we talk about rape, and victims have been more prominent than ever before, from New York Mag's "35 Women and #TheEmptyChair" cover to the furor over the Brock Turner case to a recent horrific longread on The Daily Beast about a rape ring populated by pickup artists to the news ...