Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: rape myths

  • What did she expect?

    The facts are this: a young woman went to Rhythm & Vines. A young man there decided to grope her. She fought back. It was caught on video. And then…

  • When the creeper is your mate

    Alex Casey and Duncan Greive at The Spinoff have written a phenomenal article about sexual creepiness and exploitation of young women, specifically by Andrew Tidball of Cheese on Toast and…

  • Wacky 80s hijinks

    (Content note: sexual assault, pranking) But don’t worry, dudes, they don’t even use the words “rape culture”.

  • Deborah Russell on Jane Austen, rape culture and John Key

    Great feminist minds do think alike – back in January I posted a classic quote from Pride and Prejudice which shows just how entrenched the idea of “a woman says…

  • 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…