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Why is a woman still not safe

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dirty leftie. id rather be sitting under a tree by a creek reading a book. mama bear to a queer kid. fight the fascists gender and racial apartheid project. fix your hearts or die ❤️

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 1h
Friend of mine was the lobbyist for anti-sexual violence organizations in Colorado during the Kobe Bryant trial. His attorney said her name in open court multiple times. Rape crisis hotline went silent for 6 mos. When it started again, 1st question was often "will I be named like she was?"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
A nice parody of all the advice, much of it bad, some of it ridiculous, given to potential victims while normalizing perpetrators into a malevolent miasma it's on you to filter.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1h
Time for this classic again.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 42m
No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim
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Libby @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 8h
Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 7h
How you teach your kids to treat animals is really important! In our society, animals are one of the only groups with less power than children. If they learn they can punch down, that’s a lesson that will do a lot more damage as they grow up.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A lot of parents already know they need to talk about sexual violence and consent. And you do. But that’s only the tiniest piece of the puzzle. And if you don’t situate that conversation in a broader focus on gender equality, then you might do more harm than good.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 7h
When I was teaching, so many white parents were raising "gentle/sensitive" but selfish sons by asking for special treatment. "He was sad you didn't call on him today, could you call on him first tomorrow?" Always a lesson about using words, but never a lesson that sometimes it's other people's turn.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 7h
There are a lot of parents focused on getting gentleness *for* their sons, but not expecting their sons to show gentleness to anyone else. And that’s just male entitlement in liberal window dressing.
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 3h
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h
This is genuinely true. Epstein perpetrators had a heavy hand in developing today’s campus sexual violence response.
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Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
Within a decade, I suspect that millennial calls for “consent training” will look just as out of touch as boomer calls for “rape whistles.” Both interventions were equally as successful. The rate of sexual assault has not changed on college campuses since we started measuring it 60 years ago.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
It’s worth pointing out that Cornell students receive consent training. Schools pivoted to primarily informal responses to sexual violence years ago. This gang rape happened because those solutions didn’t work. Survivors and their advocates have been raising an alarm about that for almost a decade.
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YOU CANNOT EDUCATE SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT RESPECT YOU 👇👇👇👇👇
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
All of these responses are tinged with himpathy, implying that rapists can be healed by empathy and education. You cannot educate someone who does not respect you. Men getting more empathy than their victims is why rape is so common in the first place.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
The first requirement of restorative justice is a perpetrator’s confession. He has to admit what he has done and to take accountability. The men in this case are smearing the victim and threatening her with lawsuits. They are not candidates for RJ. They would turn it into a new site of violence.
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Men are not confused about consent 👇
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
I keep seeing people talking about consent training and restorative justice in the aftermath of the Cornell story. I don’t know how to explain to people that those reactions are a part of the problem.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13h
Consent training isn’t going to stop a gang rape.
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 4h
www.ettemedia.com/war-of-words... READ: An exclusive data analysis of 42 interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 on conflict zones — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias. (No paywall)
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 3h
“mirrors, amplifies & at times defends the Australian gov’s position at the expense of accountability interviews in pursuit of the truth. This is particularly prevalent with Israeli guests. This signals to audiences, not only whose voices matter, but crucially whose lives matter.“ #Auspol #Genocide
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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apropos of Macklemore: a succinct description of how many women and non-white folks are dismissed, and white folks, especially white men, are not. This is why if you've got privilege, a platform, authority, it's so important that you take the risk and use your voice against injustice and harm.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All the talk of women's overfunctioning papers over the real issue: straight men are underfunctioning on a grand scale and their wives pay the price katemanne.substack.com/p/when-husba...
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When Husbands Underfunction
Women’s heavy load equals men’s lightness
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For all we wring our hands about social media use and its ill effects on mental health and use in cyberbullying, the greater crisis is that it sets young boys up for violence. But the Misogynistic Generation is unfortunately never going to be a bestseller katemanne.substack.com/p/your-adole...
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Adolescent Boys’ Favorites are Alleged Rapists
What the news about Clavicular says about the dire state of the boyosphere
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 4h
"what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Cornell philosophy prof @katemanne.bsky.social in The Cut:
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 4h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 4h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 4h
This is arguably the most powerful man in the world right now. And this is a confession
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John Topham @johntopham.bsky.social · 4h
Cancer? That's caused by genetics, or chemicals or sunburn or smoking, right? Well, actually, not always. New research shows one in eight cancers worldwide are actually caused by infections. Another reason to keep up with your vaccinations www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News
New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis. Whereas his first administration took children from their parents at the border to deter illegal crossings, the second is separating families living in the United States as part of a purge.”
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 4h
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Dozens of men were in that group chat.
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 5h
"I do want to reassure Australians that as soon as we’re in a proper recession and people are pushed into financial ruin, we’ll lower rates." theshovel.com.au/2026/09/30/r...
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RBA Reassures Australians They’ll Stop Raising Interest Rates as Soon as Economy Collapses — The Shovel
"I do want to reassure Australians that as soon as we’re in a proper recession and people are pushed into financial ruin, we’ll lower rates"
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Paul Begley @yelgeb.bsky.social · 5h
"The University of Sydney itself is also a defendant, and the Federal Court will be the highest Australian court so far to be asked to determine whether anti-Zionism should be treated as intrinsically antisemitic." @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/lawfare-sydn...
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Lawfare. Sydney University academics will finally have their day in court - Michael West
Sydney academics John Keane and Nick Riemer have finally been able to file a defence against their accusers.
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 5h
In a country governed by an adjudicated rapist, elected twice, despite paying off a porn star and featuring in files linking him to the worst sex trafficker and pedophile in living memory…because 2 infinitely more qualified and capable women weren’t trusted enough to do the job
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h
Would you let the local drug dealers cultivate relationships with school children if they called themselves the Performance Enhancement Club❓️ Right, so don't be fooled by the Petroleum Club name-change to the Energy Club‼️ #FossilFuelPropaganda #BuyingSocialLicense
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 5h
Letitia Chitty (d. #OTD in 1982) was a pioneering British structural engineer & mathematician. A master of stress analysis, she spent her career mathematically determining the "breaking points" of complex structures, ranging from #WWI combat aircraft to major international dams. #WomenInSTEM
A monochromatic sepia-toned photograph of British structural engineer and mathematician Letitia Chitty (July 15, 1897 – September 29, 1982), a premier pioneer of 20th-century stress analysis. Positioned in a front-facing, head-and-shoulders composition, she looks directly at the camera with a sober, neutral expression and tight lips. Her dark hair is parted neatly down the center and pulled back into a simple bun. She is dressed in a dark blazer or coat layered over a high-collared, patterned blouse or knit sweater visible at the neckline. The background consists of soft, textured drapery in warm, out-of-focus sepia tones. The tight framing captures her sharp, determined demeanor, evoking a serious and intellectually focused mood. The vintage composition highlights her immense historical significance as the first woman to graduate with first-class honors in Cambridge’s Mechanical Sciences Tripos.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 11h
There are some promising initiatives and approaches to working with *boys* that have been shown to impact the likelihood of them victimizing women but grown ass men in university? The best we have so far is bystander education to challenge social norms of acceptance.
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