Hi, I'm Rachel Hills.
I'm a London-based (via Sydney, Australia) writer, researcher and contributor to publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Girlfriend and more. I'm also writing a book about Gen Y, sex and identity. This is my blog.
I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question to my Ask Rachel column here, send me an email here, connect with me on Twitter here or find out more about my paid work at www.rachelhills.net.
I'm a London-based (via Sydney, Australia) writer, researcher and contributor to publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Girlfriend and more. I'm also writing a book about Gen Y, sex and identity. This is my blog.
I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question to my Ask Rachel column here, send me an email here, connect with me on Twitter here or find out more about my paid work at www.rachelhills.net.
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Our post-feminist western culture celebrates women doing pointlessly spiteful things to men. This is the “triumph” of decades of fighting real sexism: narratives where women blow up an unattractive suitor’s truck (Thelma & Louise), or burn all their husband’s positions when he wants a divorce (Waiting to Exhale) are chick flick classics. Women are generally given free passes to control, abuse, and seek vengeance that they would never be allowed if they were men. The solution to gender-based injustice is never to just reverse which gender the injustice gets brought against.
The feminist left versus Julian Assange: how a fanatical belief in every sex crime allegation hurts everyone (Warning: NSFW images.)
Actually, this feminist leftie for one thinks that false sexual assault allegations are one of the most disgusting things a person can do.
Not only because it is wrong to accuse someone of a crime they didn’t commit for the sake of vengeance, but because it plays into a broader narrative that crying “rape” when they’re pissed off is just something that women “do”.
And thus makes things a whole lot harder for the majority of people who are telling the truth, or who don’t report what happened to them because they’re afraid no one will believe them.
And while I have you - and while we’re talking about this topic - can I urge you to make the best of what is an utterly terrible situation, and get involved with Sady Doyle’s awesome #Mooreandme campaign? Whether Assange is guilty or not, you can show sexual assault survivors that they matter to you by donating to an organisation that aids and supports them.
Related: Quick thoughts on Wikileaks, Julian Assange and those rape allegations
Elsewhere: Talking about Julian Assange has become utterly terrible (Jezebel)
#Mooreandme: What matters (Tiger Beatdown)
I am SO SICK today of people who can’t see that
1) Wikileaks is important and does good work
2) Julian Assange may be a rapist
and
3) The pursuit by the authorities for the rape charges may be motivated as much by Wikileaks as by a desire to see justice done
are not in any way contradictory positions and could all be simultaneously true.
(reposted because I screwed up the link the first time)
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A-fucking-men. Except I (Nick) think that Wikileaks might do bad work too.
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