Editorial note: Given the state of the aptly named “criminal justice” system today, we think Inmate #565862’s harrowing story should give anyone pause. Is this really what we want to be doing to millions of men, sometimes based on allegations alone?—Eds. I’m the man in the box, Buried in my shit, Won’t you come and …
The box: Life in prison, according to Inmate #565862 Read More »
Do we live in a rape culture? Or do we live in a mob justice culture?
“Just Say No: For white working-class women, it makes sense to stay single mothers.” That’s what some feminists say. But Jim Muldoon wonders who really benefits from, and who’s secretly hurt by, that assertion.
The stereotype of the “strong Black woman” has some interesting consequences for Black men that play out in “street harassment.”
Author’s Note: There’s been a rapidly ramped-up cultural shift toward pathologizing male initiation of contact on multiple levels, starting with initial approaches to get women’s attentions. We are told that “street harassment” is not only culturally normative and epidemic but part of the “rape culture” continuum, emblematic of a wider cosmological worldview that men are …
Police brutality. Is it more a racial or gender issue? You may want to put a lot of thought into the answer to that one, says Paul Elam.
Heather Mallick has a long history of hateful public bigotry.
“In the end, I really didn’t have a choice, even though I didn’t do what my ex-wife said I did. That, however, was of little concern to the career-minded police, prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge involved in my case.”
It’s interesting how their honest social experiments so frequently wind up challenging bigoted cultural narratives, isn’t it?
What does it say about us in 2014 that we’re willing to just automatically accept accusations against an elderly man about things he allegedly did decades ago, and that we never question? Janet Bloomfield wonders the same.
