Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: victim-blaming

  • 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…

  • International (Working) Women’s Day

    It’s hard to know what to write on this International (Working) Women’s Day. The issues facing women living under patriarchy remain pretty much what they always are: there’s a basic…

  • 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.”…

  • Not the war on men you’re looking for

    It’s headline news: Labour supports re-starting a Law Commission review initiated by Simon Power to investigate possible changes in our judicial system including the option of adopting an inquisitorial approach in cases of…