
Sometimes, I’m truly #blessed to have a couple of heavenly weeks in a row during which I escape blatant harassment from men. So usually, I begin this column with an outward-looking lamentation of events so misogynistic they sound made up. I’m in a bubble. Then, the bubble unceremoniously bursts, and I’m always yelling about patriarchy.So I was home in New Brunswick this week visiting family. My Dad said he sometimes doesn’t read my writing because it’s “angry.” He’s said this before, but this time he went on at length about how he doesn’t understand what I’m so angry about.
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NFL Player Knocks Out Fiancée, Gets Two-Game SuspensionBaltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punched his fiancee so hard she passed out, then dragged her, unconscious, from an elevator earlier this year. The abuse was caught on camera at an Atlantic City casino in February, and he was charged with aggravated assault.His punishment? Rice was suspended from the first two games of the year, without pay. But the guy makes a million dollars a year, so this punishment is really just the equivalent of a restrained little smack on the wrist of a toddler who, I don’t know, punches his baby sister in the face because he thinks it’s funny.
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San Diego Cops Take Nude Photos of Strippers, Strippers SueWhilst ostensibly conducting licensing inspections in a San Diego strip club, a bunch of cops felt it prudent to take “nearly nude” photographs of the dancers who were working. This happened at two different clubs, on two different occasions.While the cops photographed, they allegedly made “arrogant and demeaning remarks,” and intimidated the dancers to keep them from leaving, according to Reuters. Apparently, the officers thought it was necessary to document every single one of the dancers’ tattoos. My face just looks like that emoji who doesn’t have a mouth. What?
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