The Week's Most Popular Blog Posts: Ask-A-Rapist Edition

The Week’s Most Popular Blog Posts: Ask-A-Rapist Edition

by Amanda Hess December 4th, 2009October 1st, 2020

This week on the Sexist:

1. Don’t Know If You Were Raped? Ask Your Rapist! in which rapists are not the best people to consult on matters of consent.

2. Patience Is a (Feminist) Virtue, in which pop culture re-brands the tradition of feminine patience for a new generation.

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3. Should We Remember Mike Penner or Christine Daniels?, in which a transgender sportswriter’s death presents obituary writers with a pronoun problem.

4. The Case for Eulogizing Christine Daniels, in which one obit writer speaks out about her choice.

5. Chris Brown: “I Love Women”, in which Gene Weingarten adds himself to the list of the phrase’s defenders.

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