Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE.
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Shocking news out of the Quarter, as Nola Defender’s Mary-Devon Dupuy reports that Johnny White’s Sports Bar is closing. This is the 24-hour bar that remained open throughout Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath, becoming a sort of safe haven for emergency workers and earning a pretty…
Assuming the British national identity consists entirely of The Beatles, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Monty Python is like assuming Americans are all about Elvis, Twilight, Star Trek, and Laugh-In.
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Batture, North of Port Allen, Louisiana, 1998 / Richard MisrachThe Mississippi is, according to song, a river of black water and mud. But, over a 100-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, something else flows. The nearly 150 petrochemical plants along those banks mean that…