In the past, there were often stories in the news that would shake me to my core, leave me feeling helpless, disgusted and fearful for the world my children are being brought up in. I felt like I wanted to DO something. to SAY something, to grab a hold of humanity and give it a good hard shake. I may not have the widest reach in the world, the largest, most diverse demographic, but I have YOU. …

A couple months ago, I told you about a pretty disturbing article by Dallas’ CultureMap that was the epitome of victim blaming. It was the case of Ryan Romo, a 19 year old high school student in an affluent area of Dallas, who was arrested for raping a younger student after a local concert. His lawyer has managed to keep a pretty good lid on the case, despite an uproar of local interest. The reactions to this case have been exceedingly disturbing, as can be seen by the…

Have you heard of the new organization Save the 1? Sounds like a nice name for an organization, right? Everyone likes the idea of “saving” people. And “the 1” has a romantic twist to it. But, if you take a look at this organization, it far from being the just another non-profit out to save the world. It is an organization, whose mission is singular and focused. It is a pro-life group who is specifically targeting pregnancies that result from rape. So, to this organization, who is the bad…

I saw on twitter the other day the term “violence against women.” This is far from the first time I’ve seen it. It may have been the millionth for all I know. I am a domestic violence and sexual assault survivor, so it is nothing shocking or new for me. I know the statistics by heart, unfortunately. Sometimes they comfort me to know that I am not alone. The…

It is 2012 and you would have thought that the treatment of women would be the same as men, right? Well some stories in the news have surprised me and made me think we are not living in 2012 at all. Not sure what year we are in, but the view of women is that we are controlled by hormones, we obviously cannot make a decision that is not controlled by our menstrual cycle and of course we have powerful ways of not getting pregnant if we were ever raped – legitimate rape or not? How can rape…

Students at a Minnesota Elementary school recently had a new twist on the game freeze tag. Once you were froze you had to have someone hump you in order to be unfrozen. Needless to say the administrators of the…