I'm posting a letter to the editor that I sent a week & a half ago and was never printed.
Kudos to Naperville Police & Female Bar Employee
Kudos to the Naperville Police and the alert "female employee of the bar" who saved a woman from a rape. Shame on Bill Bird for framing this story as a desperate man looking for love. This was a planned rape and if not for the bravery of the employee, the phony 911 call would have turned into a real one...But from the targeted woman. Men may think that it is ok to take home a drunk woman and have sex with her, but unless you get a clear "Yes, I want to have sex with you." it's called rape. Got it? You need consent for sex, without consent, it is rape. No matter how much a woman has been drinking, what she is wearing or how desperate you are. It's rape.
The article that I was responding to:
Headline: Man wants date ... dials 911
Some men go to extraordinary lengths to be with women.
James A. Rush was so smitten with a woman he met last week in a Naperville bar that he called in a phony 911 report of gunfire on the city's far northwest side, according to a written Naperville police report.
Rush, 33, now faces trial on a charge of placing a false 911 call. The three-page police report indicated he did so in the hope officers who were checking on the welfare of a drunken woman would race off to investigate the "gunshots," giving Rush the opportunity to take the woman home.
Read the rest of the story.
LinkWithin
SEARCH
LATEST
3-latest-65px
Labels
- 365FeministSelfie (26)
- 45 (1)
- abortion (96)
- actions (68)
- affiliate (4)
- art (2)
- balcony tower (1)
- Blogalicious (1)
- blogging (171)
- blogher (24)
- body image (16)
- BookBuzz (2)
- books (202)
- ccf (4)
- CFP (41)
- chicago (36)
- class (3)
- comedy (2)
- comics (10)
- conferences (7)
- cubs (1)
- death penalty (3)
- disability (1)
- Dora (4)
- drawing (2)
- ecofeminism (10)
- economics (13)
- education (22)
- election2012 (14)
- election2014 (2)
- election2015 (2)
- election2016 (5)
- emagazine (1)
- events (94)
- family (8)
- fatherhood (12)
- fem2pt0 (7)
- feminism (476)
- feministlist (1)
- feministprincess (1)
- food (3)
- friends (1)
- fundraising (11)
- garden (1)
- gender (18)
- generation-gap (3)
- gifts (33)
- girls (19)
- giveaway (33)
- giving (12)
- globalfeminism (12)
- goddess (1)
- grief (1)
- guestpost (17)
- health (91)
- history (16)
- humor (3)
- illinois (7)
- immigration (1)
- incarceration (1)
- interview (5)
- kindergarten (8)
- La Raza (3)
- latina (156)
- LGBT (10)
- livelit (1)
- LTE (1)
- magazine (20)
- me (165)
- media (57)
- meme (6)
- men (4)
- mental health (1)
- mentoring (1)
- military (1)
- MIRCI (18)
- misc (19)
- motherhood (126)
- movies (33)
- music (15)
- NaBloPoMo (29)
- NativeAmerican (1)
- Netroots (1)
- NOW (10)
- nrrd-stuff (6)
- oldblog (10)
- pagan (4)
- pandemic (1)
- parenting (46)
- peace (2)
- podcast (3)
- politics (142)
- promos (1)
- puke pile (23)
- PWV (8)
- race (29)
- racesexpower (4)
- repoductivejustice (2)
- resistance (2)
- reviews (193)
- science (10)
- selfcare (1)
- sex (8)
- shinewhine (1)
- spacecamp (2)
- sponsoredpost (13)
- sports (50)
- summeroffeminista (72)
- tech (2)
- theater (1)
- travel (2)
- TV (16)
- VAW (40)
- victory (1)
- W2BW (18)
- wam (12)
- whitehouseproject (4)
- WHM (24)
- WOC (8)
- women (49)
- words (2)
- work (41)
- writing (19)
Disclaimer
This blog is my personal blog and is not reflective of my employer or what I do for them.