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Category: Rape
Eudy Simelane was a brilliant soccer star, captain of South Africa's national women's team. She was also an out lesbian and an activist for LGBT rights. In April 2008, a group of men attacked her with a sickening brutality. She was gang-raped, beaten, and stabbed...
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Category: Anthropology
I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...
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Category: Rape
South African rape study gives expected results to those who have been paying attention. Others, shocked.
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Category: Anthropology
I've caught up on this discussion and I am now ready to do the following: 1) issue you a sincere apology; 2) kick your ass into oblivion; 3) enlighten you about life; or ...
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Category: Rape
I would like to go into a little more detail about the rape switch which is being discussed here as well as the statistical trend in rape rates in the US being discussed here . It has been shown again and again that large numbers...
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Category: Anthropology
This question is shorthand for a larger and more nuanced set of questions that has emerged over the last 24 hours here and here as people engage in this very interesting and important discussion about rape, especially wartime rape and related post-apocalyptic rape cultures. "The...
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Category: Rape
-Activists concerned by this year's escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting--directly or indirectly--from illicit mineral extractions. "Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry," John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, told U.S. senators at...
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Category: Anthropology
Expanding on the discussion from here ... In the paper Anthropology's "Fierce" Yanomami: Narratives of Sexual Politics in the Amazon, Sharon Tiffany and Kathleen Adams provide the following opening passage: Imagine a society in which one woman in every three is raped, usually by a...
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Category: feminism
Please read the following vignette of an actual incident. I am a scientist observing the culture of the Namoyoma people. I am sitting in a shady spot just outside the village, writing up some notes, and I observe a disturbing event. Four men are trying...
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