Sexual Assault – Page 2

Judge tells assault victim that this is what she gets for going to a bar

Last summer, then-DPS Officer Robb Gary Evans got drunk, drove to a bar, and sexually assaulted a woman there. July 2, he was convicted of felony sexual abuse. September 6, he was released with a slap on the wrist, and his victim was released with a good talking-to.

The real Republican rape platform

My latest on Mourdock, Republicans and rape in the Guardian:

Some Republicans, like Mitt Romney, have tried to distance themselves from their party’s rhetorical obsession with sexual violation. What they’re hoping we won’t notice is the fact that their party is politically committed to sexual violation.

Pregnancy caused by rape is a gift, ladies, so say thank you!

Can Republicans stop talking about rape now? Or maybe keep talking, so we know what they really think?

The painful lessons of the Central Park Five and the jogger rape case

I’m in the Guardian writing about police interrogation techniques and the dangers of coercive and psychologically manipulative tactics. And in exciting news, the Guardian now going to be a weekly thing, so stay tuned for more. A bit from this latest piece:

Is it rape if you don’t mean for it to be rape?

Oh man, everything about all of these questions and answers makes me uncomfortable, but especially this one:

Rape Survivors on the GOP

A must-watch:

Trigger warnings, safety and illusions

Oh this piece on trigger warnings, sexual assault and the balance between real safety and the illusion of safety is so so so excellent.

Tom Smith clarifies: Rape is only like having a baby out-of-wedlock to fathers.

A lot of attention has been paid to Rep. Todd Akin’s asinine assertion that “legitimate rape” can’t result in pregnancy, and Republicans have been backpedaling left and right to distance themselves from such idiocy. Take, for instance, Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith (mentioned in Jill’s post), who knows full well that rape, “legitimate” or not, can result in pregnancy. For instance, his daughter had sex out of wedlock, and she got pregnant, and it’s pretty much the same thing.

The Republican rape problem

Just a friendly reminder that Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment was not actually an isolated gaffe.

Rape: Just another “method of conception.”

In response to a question about the “legitimate rape” / Akin debacle, Paul Ryan says that life is life and the “method of conception” — in context, remember, rape — that doesn’t change that. Which sounds an awful lot like downplaying a vicious crime, no? I suppose he is technically correct, in the same sense that punching someone in the face is also a “method of touching.”