Sometimes brothers do more than tease their sisters. Sometimes they say things like, “Why don’t you help women who are brought to the U.S. from different countries and are abused by their husbands?” That’s what former Bollywood star Somy Ali’s brother advised after a bleeding Bangladeshi neighbor came to her door and said she’d been […]
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Making the best of rape
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s blurt that a woman pregnant from a rape “make the best out of a bad situation” has many female journalists fuming. Some have come up with a flurry of interesting questions that sound absurd at face value but–considering how our courts work–could just end up happening. Recognizing that Kansas Gov. Sam […]
FBI updates definition of rape
It took 82 years for the FBI to change its naive, chauvinistic definition of rape. That’s 10 years longer than the campaign to give women the right to vote. Once again, women’s rights advocates are credited with the change. Since 1929 the FBI has defined rape as “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against […]
Female Peace Prize winners get less
This year’s $1.5 million Nobel Peace Prize will be divvied up among three African women. Call me cynical but—once again—women get paid less than men. Why must each woman receive one-third of the prize money? Why not give them each $1.5 million? Every individual winner (e.g., Mother Teresa, Barak Obama, Henry Kissinger) gets to keep […]
Women: just pawns in the game
Mobster and human smuggler Bill Bedini was back in Albania after jumping bail in Texas. “This [is] payback to your Uncle Edmond for when I was in the United States,” he said as he beat two young women, nieces of the Albanian man who testified against him in the U.S. A human weed, Bedini kidnapped […]
It’s time to castrate rapists
News stories like this one from today’s New York Times turn me violent: “More than 600 women and girls were recently raped along the Congo-Angola border during a mass expulsion of illegal immigrants, according to the United Nations….’What worries us is that rape seems to be becoming endemic in several parts of Congo,’ Mr. Giuliano […]
