Tag: rape

  • Bully for You, Maybe, but not for Me

    Bully for You, Maybe, but not for Me

    I am done with curling up in a ball.

  • A Woman’s Fate is about Location, Location, Location

    Once upon a time I owned my own home, and was actually surviving financially. Not rich. Never that. But I was doing okay. So I started thinking about women who were less fortunate than myself. I’m very aware that the bulk of my good luck in life is based simply on the arbitrary fact that…

  • Do Republican Women Hate Themselves?

    When I was in college I was invited to join the youth division of a service organization called the Rotary Club, and I was seriously considering it. I thought it would look great on resumes and applications, and it would be wonderful to have a positive impact on this world. Then I had a conversation…

  • Ignorance

    It’s what causes women in backward villages to be stoned to death. It justifies the withholding of the truth. It encourages people to demonize scientific proof. It suggests that if children are not taught sex education, there will be no teen pregnancies. It allows us all to focus on one group and make them the…

  • Really?

    The other day I was driving home from work and I spotted a house I’d never seen before. I must have driven past it a thousand times, and yet I’d never noticed it. That kind of rattled me. I mean, this is an entire HOUSE. How do you overlook a house? And if I’ve missed…