Walter Romans (TDOM)

Don’t Rape a Slut Day

However, regardless of my support for your right not to be raped; I must state emphatically that you have no right to demand I give you my respect. I reserve the right to give my respect only to those whom I actually deem worthy. I have no respect for sluts. You may take back the word if you like, but I do not see how you or anyone else can define a slut as meaning anything other than a dirty, slovenly, immoral, dissolute, or loose woman.

Why Rape Culture is Essential to Feminism

If feminism is primarily concerned with equality, why is it that feminists are so adamant in their vilification of the masculine and the angelification of the feminine? Why are feminists so insistent that all men are potential rapists, wife beaters, and child molesters? Why is the existence of rape culture so important? If feminism were …

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Putting Faces on Victims – Stories of child abuse and domestic violence: When the political becomes personal

For 13 years I worked as a case manager and investigator handling child abuse cases for one of the largest child welfare agencies in the U.S.. During that time I saw the results of some of the most horrific violence and abuse imaginable. I saw the striped scars from shoulder to heal on the back and legs of a …

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Legally Obscene II: Equal Protection, Consent, and Liability

In response to my first article, Legally Obscene the question arose about the difference between civil and criminal liability. The argument was posited that while the female perpetrator of a statutory rape can be held criminally responsible for her actions, the male victim was in fact a willing participant in the act and should therefore be held …

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