Showing posts with label Abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abuse. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

Paul Says Quit Job If You're Sexually Harassed





What a load of bullshit. I got sexually harassed at work and got my coworker suspended for a week. I could of had his job if I had wanted it.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Why is Facebook Protecting Pro Rape Language and Abuse of Women?

Why is Facebook Protecting Pro Rape Language and Abuse of Women?: "Despite a campaign that included 180,000 signatures, Facebook continues to post pro-rape pages, showing, yet again, that they care about users so long as they're profitable.

Since August, tens of thousands of Internet activists have taken to social media to protest a social media giant — Facebook — for its apparent tolerance of user-created pages that make sexual violence into a punchline. The pages, with titles like "Riding your Girlfriend softly, Cause you dont [sic] want to wake her up" and "Kicking Sluts in the Vagina," have been common to Facebook for some time, but campaigns against them began when a Facebook representative commented to the BBC on its decision not to remove that kind of content, stating, “Just as telling a rude joke won’t get you thrown out of your local pub, it won’t get you thrown off Facebook.” The pub analogy comment circulated among feminist activists on Facebook, and it was quoted widely on blogs, sparking a series of petitions that circulated for months, demanding the removal of the pages. When Facebook failed to respond, online activists organized a Twitter hashtag Day of Action, #notfunnyfacebook, to further pressure Facebook to enforce its own terms of service and hold its users accountable. Finally, following the Twitter action, Facebook elected to delete a few of the pages. It also allowed others to remain, so long as they were retitled as parodies...."

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing 'Discipline' Guides

Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing 'Discipline' Guides: "There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God.

There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God. Two stories recently converged to make us pay attention. Last week, a video went viral of a Texas judge brutally whipping his disabled daughter. And on Monday, the New York Times published a story about child deaths in homes that have embraced the teachings of To Train Up a Child, a book by Christian preacher Michael Pearl that advocates using a switch on children as young as six months old.

What many people may not realize is that in the evangelical alternative universe of the home school movement, tightly knit church communities and the following of a number of big-time leaders and authors, physical punishment of children has been glorified for years...."