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victim-blaming

Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped

January 19, 2012

posted in: prevention

Zerlina Maxwell writes in her recent article Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped in Ebony Magazine that Holding women and girls accountable for preventing sexual assault hasn’t worked and so long as men commit the majority of rapes, men need to be at the heart of our tactics for preventing them.  Let’s stop

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Victim blaming is never acceptable

March 10, 2011

posted in: CALCASA

On Tues., March 8, the New York Times ran the story “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town.” Reporter James C. McKinley Jr. reports about 18 young men and teenage boys who were arrested for participating in the rape of an 11-year-old girl in an abandoned trailer home. Instead of focusing on what can be done —

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Can reducing women’s drinking prevent rape?

December 14, 2009

posted in: prevention

A new article “Alcohol consumption and women’s vulnerability to sexual victimization: can reducing women’s drinking prevent rape?” in the journal Substance Use and Misuse addresses the thorny issue of the relationship between potential victim’s alcohol use and sexual assault.  While I am pleased to see that the purpose of this analysis is to explore the

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Responsibility and blame

December 10, 2009

posted in: prevention

When I have hired staff or recruited volunteers for domestic violence or sexual assault organizations, I did not necessary look for extensive knowledge about the issues. I wanted to see if and how they dealt with victim-blaming.  Did they hold battered women responsible for being abused?  Did they consider rape victims to have done something

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“Don’t Assault Them”: A Different Type of Advice About Sexual Assault

September 22, 2009

posted in: prevention

This list of rape prevention tips is currently being widely distributed on feminist blogs and tweets.  Colleen Jameson creatively interrupts the victim-blaming inherent in expecting rape prevention to be primarily expecting women to protect themselves. Instead she offers suggestions to men so they will not rape. Bravo! Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work! by

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