Category Archives: Rape

Twenty Four Years Later, Nothing Has Changed Regarding Campus Rape

Posted on May 18, 2014 by

So you might have heard about a rapist list written on female bathrooms at colleges. Here’s the story: At the beginning of the school year, the Brown University library became a repository for information of a most unusual kind: on … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Rape | 1 Comment

Remind Me What We Fought For Again?

Posted on April 11, 2014 by

Since the Tsarnaev brothers put the lie to the notion that ‘we’re fighting them over there, so we don’t have to fight them here’, how’s that other justification for the Iraq War doing? No, not weapons of mass destruction you … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Rape

The Math Behind Why Harvard and Other Universities Don’t Take Rape Seriously

Posted on April 5, 2014 by

A recent anonymous letter by a rape survivor at Harvard has been making the rounds. Jill Filipovich asks: Why aren’t schools like Harvard, with their vast financial and intellectual resources, with their leadership position at the very top of higher … Continue reading →

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Forget Genomics, Just Do the Genetics That We Know How to Do: The Rape Kit Edition

Posted on March 19, 2014 by

As genomics becomes cheaper and more accessible, the torrent of articles debating and discussing its effects on human health will only increase. My contribution to this genre is to argue that microbial genomics is also critical, and, in the short … Continue reading →

Posted in Funding, Genetics, Genomics, Rape

When Big Data Goes Awry: The “Rape Sufferers” List

Posted on December 27, 2013 by

Somehow I don’t think this is what either the Big Data triumphalists or the techno-freedomites had in mind: The list is defined as: These rape sufferers are family members who have reported, or have been identified as individuals affected by … Continue reading →

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Why We Still Have College Adminstrations That Are Soft on Rape

Posted on August 31, 2013 by

In this story about USC’s mislabeling sexual assault to keep their campus rape numbers low, this part floored me: Reed said she was told by Raquel Torres-Retana, student judicial affairs and community standards director, that the university had difficulty taking … Continue reading →

Posted in Fucking Morons, Rape | 1 Comment

Why the Pentagon Doesn’t Understand Rape (It’s the Predation, Stupid)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

After reading about the hearings on military rape, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. military leadership, like too many men, is very confused about rape. Even among men who aren’t flat-out misogynist assholes (the assholes are self-explanatory), the motivations of … Continue reading →

Posted in Military, Rape | 3 Comments