Violence against women
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On violence against women (part three): rape, evolution, and the dangers of partial truths.
This is third in a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Were you sired by a jerk? Don’t worry! You can still be good! I’m mostly familiar with two theories addressing the question, “Why do men rape?” One comes from feminism, like the thesis put forward in Brownmiller’s Against Our Will: violence against women…
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On penis size, Sports Illustrated, and child pornography.
Another scientific study was published recently on penis size. Veale et al. aggregated data from many previous studies to attempt to provide a best current estimate for the full distribution of sizes amongst men worldwide. And, sure, you might ask yourself “why?” The authors work in urology, though. If someone feels that his penis is…
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On the potential psychological ramifications of certain insular societies, or: that fraternity video in the news.
After N woke up from her nap, I strapped her into the jogging stroller and took her to the local playground. Holding my hands, she stomped around while I dripped on her: a sudden blast of warm air from the south brought summer-like weather to our town today. Then, after about twenty minutes of stomping,…
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On parenting and belated “thank you”s.
After we finished eating dinner, K and I were talking about our parenting strategy. Specifically, that she feels pleased with the way we’re doing it. Personally, I expressed no such pride: one negative consequence of thinking about stuff all the time is that I fail to notice my surroundings. Unless, of course, my surroundings are…
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More on violence against women … sexism, in particular.
This is second in a series. Find the first essay here. Given that I’ve been writing about violence against women in a university setting, it’s probably worth slapping together an essay about the paucity of female professors, specifically in the sciences. And this is something that’s been addressed quite often, so quite possibly you’ve read a…
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On violence against women.
This is the first in a series. Read the second one here. Quick caveat: this essay will be unpleasant. Given the title, you can probably guess the nature of the impending unpleasantness. So, if you think that’s a topic you shouldn’t be reading about right now, then you should skip this. But it’s something I…
Against Our Will, ancient sexual assault trials, Bible, Christianity, consensual kissing does not imply consent to further physical affection, cultural relativism, dueling to let God dictate which party to a trial is more honest, ellusive justice, erasure, feminism, Homer, Kampan versus Valmiki Ramayanas, making fiction less horrible than reality so that readers aren’t too upset, Martin Van Creveld, Oliver Fallon, rape, removing charms before a duel, sexual assault, sexual assault trials, sexual violence as social control, silenced text, silenced voices, Susan Brownmiller, The Death of Ravana, the oppression of fear, underlying misogyny of various religious traditions, Valmiki, was Supranakha punished for sexual empowerment, who writes history, women shackled to rotten husbands
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