Sorry, we’re running late today, so please post any additional links in comments. It’s been a wild week for all of us.
As always, this diary is a team effort. Thanks to mettle fatigue, Besame, elenacarlena and the WOW crew for links and discussion.
Violence and harassment:
Really interesting thread on the oft-repeated claim that even the accusation of rape “ruins lives.” Click over:
Rape, Pregnancy, and Mental Health: What the [rwnj] Politics Ignores Lots of links to excellent resources for "discussing" facts with neighbors, relatives, co-workers, ministers, etc etc. Medscape being free and all, this looks like a good resource in one pkg itself. About raising a child engendered by rape, for example, is the quote "As it stands, when faced with parenting a child born of rape, women often have little respite from ongoing interaction with their rapists." and research reportage of what THAT does to the woman.
Rape as First Sexual Experience Profoundly Affects Young Women: When First Sexual Encounter Was Forced, Medical Problems Follow.
Sandra Muller, who kicked off France’s #MeToo movement (balancetonporc, or “rat on your pig”), was successfully sued for defamation. The man admits he made the crude unsolicited sexual remarks to her, but claims he was defamed because she didn’t specify that it happened at a party rather than at work. She is appealing the verdict, which ordered her to pay 20,000 Euros (roughly $22,000).
Women in Mexico have been rising up against violence: “The patriarchy is going down.”
Placido Domingo has stepped down at the Met, while continuing to deny the 20+ harassment allegations against him.
Reproductive Rights and Health Care:
The Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday approved a bill to legalize abortion, making it only the second region of the predominantly Roman Catholic country after Mexico City to permit the procedure.
While cervical cancer survival rates continued to improve in states without clinic closures, there was a 36% increase in risk of dying from cervical cancer in states where women's health clinics were closed.
France is considering lifting restrictions that limit reproductive assistance technologies to heterosexual married couples.
Media:
Michael Aldo on the extraordinary writer Zora Neale Hurston.