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Apr.09.2013 Can't You See, I'm Trying to Protect You? A few weeks ago the Commission on the Status of Women convened to focus on eliminating and preventing all forms of violence against women and girls. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon stood in solidarity with women globally. Ki-Moon said: "A new movement involving millions of people is taking...	Mar.20.2013 Asking for It: Male Violence, Misogyny and the Prospects for Justice Sometimes, it’s good to just vent. With that in mind, and before proceeding with a deeper and hopefully more constructive commentary about male violence and misogyny, perhaps it would do me well to release my first, instinctual thoughts about the guilty verdicts recently secured against two members...
Feb.07.2013 Dr. Riane Eisler Many readers know Riane Eisler as the author of THE CHALICE AND THE BLADE: OUR HISTORY, OUR FUTURE. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu has said this is "the most important book since Origin of the Species." Isabel Allende has said The Chalice and the Blade "is one of those magnificent...	Dec.08.2010 The Wikileaks Guy and Stieg Larsson--Whatever Happened to Ingmar Bergman? Now Julian Assange, rightfully or wrongfully, may be headed back to Sweden on rape charges. And Stieg Larsson's trilogy emphasizes violence against women, specifically in Sweden, as its central theme. How could this grow out of the country that produced Ingmar Bergman? Didn't he teach us,...
Mar.13.2010 The Oscars Made Me Sick The Oscars made me sick. Not because my George Clooney did not win and attended with that faux galpal arm-candy instead of me. Not because Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to win best director was so ditzily girly in such an historic moment. But because the tribute to horror films was an...	Jan.25.2010 Curbing the imaginary threat: female sexuality Think that female circumcision is a problem for other countries to handle? No, it happens right here at home. Violence Against Women: Female Genital Mutilation What is the root of this profoundly ancient twisted belief that women's sexuality, happiness and health is a darkly destructive force that...
Nov.17.2009 You Say You Want a Revolution... One of French playwright Jean Anouilh's characters says, "It's when you understand that there's nothing left to break that you become an adult." That very loose translation is mine, but it captures the sense of the phrase. You grow up when you learn that throwing things, hitting walls,...	Nov.08.2009 Why I Defend Roman Polanski Okay, so here we go.... I swore I'd never write about this, and haven't in the nearly 40 years since it happened, but since there's been so much attention focused on a similar crime committed more than 30 years ago by Roman Polanski, I thought it might be helpful to hear from someone who knows...
Aug.31.2009 A week of rich reading To escape from my own writing, I’ve done an extraordinary amount of reading lately. And the last three books to keep me up when I should have been sleeping were “The Space Between Us” by Thrity Umrigar, “The Weight of Silence” by Heather Gudenkauf and “Girl in the Mirror” by Kate Farrell. They...