Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Violence against women

  • QOTD: Andrea Grimes on what men can do

    From I Made a Joke About Guns and a Man Threatened to Assault Me at RH Reality Check: I don’t need men to individually and personally step up to protect me. I need…

  • QOTD: Annabel Crabb on feminism

    At the Sydney Morning Herald: I am a feminist because it bothers me that a woman gets killed by her male partner every single week, and somehow that doesn’t qualify…

  • Roastbusters second report: surprising yet no surprise

    [Content note: sexual violence, police inaction] Other bloggers have already posted pretty comprehensive reviews of the second IPCA report into the Roastbusters debacle. As summarised by Danyl at Dim-Post: Seven…

  • The constant threat

    [Content note: sexual assault, victim-blaming, Julian Assange] With the news that Julian Assange will now be questioned in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he’s taken refuge since 2012 after Swedish…

  • Prince Andrew, John Key and implicitly blaming the victim

    (Content note: rape, victim-blaming, domestic violence) The only appropriate response the Prime Minister of New Zealand could have made to questions about the allegations against Prince Andrew is: “No comment.”…