We’ve got another awesome Sex and the State guest post! If you would like to submit a guest post, please fill out my contact form with an brief outline of what you want to write about. Which wars count, and which wars don’t? We might spend ten minutes during primetime to discuss the War on Women, make … [Read more…]
On the same day that Massachusetts recommends all sex education classes in the state include accurate information on contraception and STI prevention, a writer at conservative site Townhall.com has written a scarily inaccurate article entitled Hobby Lobby: Should Employers be Forced to Provide Abortifacients? Perhaps with access to quality sex education, writer Rachel Alexander would know that … [Read more…]
Recently in TIME, writer Caroline Kitchens dismissed concerns over so-called rape culture “hysteria.” She asserts, “Though rape is certainly a serious problem, there’s no evidence that it’s considered a cultural norm. Twenty-first century America does not have a rape culture.” While Kitchens focuses exclusively on rapes of women by men, a recent study looking at rape of men … [Read more…]
Yesterday, Firedoglake published a sexist, crude hit piece on BuzzFeed writer Rosie Gray. Blogger DSWright accused Gray of obtaining information by sleeping with sources, writing that Eli Lake “may be pumping more than stories into Gray.” The outcry was such that Wright later changed the phrase to “may be having a romantic relationship.” Now, the claimed impetus for the … [Read more…]