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The best thing you will read today

This piece, about widespread rapes in a Mennonite community in Bolivia, is a truly incredible piece of reporting by one of my favorite journalists, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky. It’s disturbing and heartbreaking, but a fascinating look at how a culture of silence and shame not only allows rapes to be widely perpetrated, but prevents survivors from getting the help they need.

Feministe Feedback: What if I don’t want my partner to watch porn?

Feministe Feedback

I feel genuinely concerned that myself and many women I know feel kind of bullied into tolerating their partners porn use when they don’t like it, and they don’t even use porn themselves. Honestly, I don’t date because of it, because I feel like it’s “unfair” of me to have this as a requirement and I know that it is, for me. I will be unhappy with a man (or woman) who uses people they don’t know or love for their sexuality without knowing if the other person may be harmed by it, or care what circumstances and belief systems may be driving their participation in porn.

Your partner’s infidelity: All your fault

When a partner cheats, there’s always (well, frequently, anyway) a question: Why? Why, God, why? Is it something I did? Parent Society blogger Jennifer Carsen has the answer: Yes! Yes, it is. It’s probably because you got fat. Yeah, when your partner decides to have illicit sex behind your back instead of fixing your relationship or breaking it off cleanly, it’s definitely because you got fat.