Is Rihanna Responsible For the Beating?

Here’s a conversation starter: Nearly half of the 200 Boston teenagers interviewed for an informal poll said pop star Rihanna was responsible for the beating she allegedly took at the hands of her boyfriend, fellow music star Chris Brown, in February…
The results of the survey… are startling for local health workers who see a generation [...]

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The Bus Room Frisk

What would a logical bus room be like?  I wonder.  What if your kid compared the bus room to a Nazi concentration camp?
In my daughter’s school, kids have to wait up to over an hour in a room until their bus arrives, sadly because the county is short on funds like all school systems but also [...]

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Rachel Maddow on Rick Warren

This is a tough call.  On the one hand, we’ve got Obama living up to the inclusion promise.  On the other, couldn’t there have been a less radical choice?!
 
Rachel Maddow’s take is worth one’s time to view, courtesy of  Fourth Wave Feminism blog, which also has a link to sign a petition for those interested.
 
I’m actually [...]

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“Spiritual Education” or Child Abuse?

That title caught my attention while surfing through YouTube (much thanks to the contributor for posting it!).  This video, a clip from a documentary called “Jesus Camp”  is very disturbing to me and it falls in line with one of my most popular hitted posts, Religion as Child Abuse.
What’s bothersome here isn’t specifically that children are [...]

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Fucking Teens to Prison

A lot of teens these days are overrun by sexuality.  If it isn’t in the media somehow, it’s amongst themselves.  Naturally, they’re curious.  No need to get into the full scope of the rights and wrongs of this but something disturbing is happening as a result.
 
The Making of a Sex Offender in the New Millennium
Many [...]

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“Swinging” Voters Can Help Women

I couldn’t imagine that I would be saved after I told…’no one’s going to believe you’ [the abusers said].”
This quote comes from a rape/incest survivor (part 1 & 2 at the bottom of the screen).  Her fears are common among the abused, as are the kind of threats and manipulations from her abusers and the [...]

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Perverse Campaigning

Well, this couldn’t pass by me without a comment.
The latest attacks hit a special place in my heart and that’s children, sex and education – and pedophiles.  The Obama campaign is seeking comprehensive sexual education for children – kindergarten aged – NOT TO TEACH THAT A PENIS GOES INTO A VAGINA -but to introduce the [...]

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“I’m Pure, Daddy. I Promise.”

Speaking of sex before marriage, it’s just my luck Time Magazine slapped out an article about Purity Balls, where, if you haven’t heard, daughters pledge their virginity to their fathers until their wedding night.  OMG.  Gag me with a spoon. 
The Time article lacks the substance I’d like to see on this.  While it includes expected [...]

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How a Girl Gets Fucked

How does a girl get fucked?  Well, if it’s not by a guy, it’s by the Florida Justice System.  Being from Florida and having been fucked by it’s judicial nonsense as well, I’m too angry to say much other than it’s really difficult to believe in social morality when it’s so hypocritical.  It plays favorite to [...]

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The Embarrassing Truth

Media and Sexual Exploitation of Minors
I found a current story about Miley Cyrus interesting.  She publicly apologized to her fans for the racy spread by Annie Leibovitz, showing her “topless” and wrapped in a blanket for an upcoming Vanity Fair photo spread.  She is “embarrassed” and was allegedly “manipulated” into a photo shoot that sells [...]

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Religion as Child Abuse?

My husband and I watched Richard Dawkins‘ The Root of All Evil last night.  I think it is a chilling yet fantastic documentary. What interested me the most was Dawkins’ suggestion that religious indoctrination is a form of child abuse. One of the greatest attributes of my kid, and I’ll say all kids in general, [...]

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Kong of Key Words

I would just like to note that it is amazing how many of my blog hits come from people looking up “emotional manipulator” or “emotional abuser”. When I first wrote about the sure signs to spot one, I never expected that so many people were searching the same thing. In fact, as I researched the [...]

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Manipulators & the Mind Fuck

i While researching information for a character in a book I’m writing, I came across some information I found highly interesting. Let me share with you the world of the emotional manipulator.
*Author’s note: this is primarily intended for those who feel this may be or was their circumstance. If you know someone being abused, please [...]

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