Nicki Minaj fires back at NY Times Magazine writer mid-interview
Minaj is the focus of a NY Times Magazine exposé published Wednesday by Vanessa Grigoriadis. At the end of the piece Grigoriadis makes the mistake of asking Minaj if she “thrives on drama” in relation to the Drake-Meek Mill feud. Minaj promptly shuts this down and then does what any disrespected person would do in that situation.
#yaasqueen.
Source: mic.com
He mentions the bizarre use of the term “sex scandals” for such incidents as Tailhook decades ago and the recent accusations that Bob Filner, the mayor of San Diego, groped women around him, among other offenses. “They’re violence scandals,” he said. “If I hit you over the head with a frying pan, I don’t call that cooking.”
- Over at the New York Times, Frank Bruni interviews a psychology professor about rape culture in the military.
Things Bloomberg Might Have Said to a Woman at a Party
According to The New York Times:
“…an ungentlemanly remark about a woman’s attractive backside at a Christmas party last year.”
“…the comment that was attributed to him in an article in New York magazine this week.”
“the quotation”
“the alleged remark on her derrière”
According to one’s imagination after reading that article:
“Why, that young woman appears to have an attractive backside!”
“Pardon my French, but there’s a derrière by the canapés.”
“I would make a comment about THAT in New York Magazine.”
According to New York Magazine:
“Look at the ass on her.”
The American Association of University Women celebrated with women voters when the nation elected a record number of women to Congress in November. We also saw the re-election of a president with a strong record on women’s issues, and we looked forward to seeing him improve on that work. Indeed, after women propelled the president to victory, we expected nothing less.
Yet we have been surprised by the Obama administration’s second-term appointments and largely all-male inner circle…
AAUW’s Executive Director Linda Hallman wrote a letter to the New York Times.
Read the whole letter, “The Women are Watching,” here.
(via aauwpress-blog)
Source: The New York Times
But rape is not inevitable, like the weather. We need to shelve all the gibberish about honor and virtue and did-she-lead-him-on and could-he-help-himself. We need to put responsibility where it lies: on men who violate women, and on all of us who let them get away with it while we point accusing fingers at their victims.
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