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Author: Shira Tarrant
Race and Gender Stereotypes are Everywhere—Including on Your Cereal Box
General Mills’s Wheaties cereal has been re-branded as “By Champions. For Champions,” complete with race and gender stereotypes. The rebranding makes the cereal the first to be intentionally aimed at male consumers.
Getting Down About Hooking Up
“What’s actually bad for women and girls is treating us like victims who need protecting [and] ignoring that our sexual experiences, good or lousy, can contribute to our growth and development as human beings.”
Judge Orders Rape Survivors to Take Polygraph Test
Cleveland, Ohio Juvenile Court Judge Alison Floyd is forcing sexual assault survivors to take polygraph tests before their attackers are sentenced. To date, at least four teenage girls have been ordered to do so. All have refused.
What’s the “Scoop” About Groping?
Los Angeles TV station KTLA 5 ran a news story titled “Scooping: Sexual Assault or Schoolboy Prank?” But sexual assault is never just a prank, and by suggestively framing the issue like this the media becomes part of the problem.