I’ve covered sexual assault in its various forms for years, and it’s always astonishing to me when myths about this phenomenon come up over and over again. One of the most persistent myths about rape in the public consciousness is “but what was she wearing?”
The question, while posing as an innocent inquiry, is about investigating if perhaps somehow the victim should shoulder part of the blame. Last night, Twitter user @Steenfox, whose real name is Christina Fox, busted this myth in a very real way. After getting into an argument with another Twitter user about this, she threw out this question to her followers:
Over at TPM Cafe today, Seth D. Michaels talks about how Paul Ryan is totally out out to lunch on poverty.
House GOP plots new hostage taking crisis to stop Obamacare.
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act four years ago this month and yet here we sit going into the third national election since then with the political impact of the law still unresolved.
A few new data points today that show just how up for grabs the Obamacare narrative remains:
We’ve got all the latest Obamacare enrollment numbers mapped by state — and we’ve broken out separately the state-level enrollments in the 11 tightest Senate races.
Arizona’s Gov. Jan Brewer, who brought us some of the craziest and most unexpected headlines of the past several years, announced today she’s retiring and won’t challenge the state constitution to run for a third term.
If the GOP does re-take the Senate next year, Sahil Kapur reports on which Republicans are likely to become chairmen of major committees (emphasis on the men).
Two quite contradictory polls out this morning about President Obama’s standing in the polls.
Bill O’Reilly is pretty sure Abe Lincoln would have never appeared on “Between Two Ferns.”