Monday Musings: Rape Culture and Fatphobia
[TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE, FATPHOBIA] This is not the rape I’m talking about. (Image by jimmedia via Flickr.) “Fat girls should be happy for any attention.” “Oh, come on, she’s too fat to be raped!” How...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Rape Culture in Fantasy Settings
[TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of rape and sexual assault] It’s a Thing. It really is. We’d like to think that the worlds we think up are oh-so-evolved, but the truth is that many of the worlds we think...
View ArticleIndependence! …from harassment. Hopefully. Someday.
(x-posted here.) If you’re involved in the SF-o-sphere you may have seen the internet go boom in the past week. Elise Matthesen was sexually harassed while she was at WisCon, and formally reported it....
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