Authors: Kirsten Powers
Tags: #Best 2015 Nonfiction, #Censorship, #History, #Nonfiction, #Political Science, #Retail
149
.
Carrie Lukas, “It’s Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth,”
Forbes
, April 16, 2012,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth/
.
150
.
Glenn Kessler, “President Obama’s Persistent ’77-Cent’ Claim on the Wage Gap Gets a New Pinocchio Rating,”
Washington Post
, April 9, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/04/09/president-obamas-persistent-77-cent-claim-on-the-wage-gap-gets-a-new-pinocchio-rating/
.
151
.
Mark J. Perry and Andrew G. Biggs, “The ‘77 Cents on the Dollar’ Myth About Women’s Pay,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 7, 2014,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579483752909957472
.
152
.
See, e.g.,
Forbes
, supra at 16.
153
.
CONSAD Research Corporation, “An Analysis for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women,” CONSAD, January 12, 2009,
http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf
.
154
.
Louis Jacobson, “Barack Obama Ad Says Women Are Paid ‘77 Cents on the Dollar For Doing the Same Work As Men,’” PolitiFact, June 21, 2012,
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jun/21/barack-obama/barackobama-ad-says-women-are-paid-77-cents-dolla/
.
155
.
Hanna Rosin, “The Gender Wage Gap Lie,”
Slate
, August 30, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/gender_pay_gap_the_familiar_line_that_women_make_77_cents_to_every_man_s.html
.
156
.
Meghan Casserly, “The Gender Pay Gap Got Worse, Not Better, in 2012—And It’s Great for Women,”
Forbes
, February 14, 2014,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2013/02/14/gender-pay-gap-wider-2012-and-its-great-for-women/
.
157
.
Sarah Jane Glynn, “Explaining the Gender Wage Gap,” Center for American Progress, May 19, 2014,
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/report/2014/05/19/90039/explaining-the-gender-wage-gap/
.
CHAPTER NINE: FEMINISTS AGAINST FACTS, FAIRNESS, AND THE RULE OF LAW
1
.
Eliana Dockterman, “When Enforcing School Dress Codes Turns Into Slut Shaming,”
Time
, March 25, 2014;
http://time.com/36997/when-enforcing-school-dress-codes-turns-into-slut-shaming/
;
Christine Wolf, “Haven Middle School Bans Leggings & Yoga Pants – Too Distracting for Boys,” Evanston Patch, March 23, 2014,
http://patch.com/illinois/evanston/leggings—yoga-pants-banned-at-haven-middle-school
.
2
.
Rebecca Rose, “Confusing School Ban Over ‘Distracting’ Leggings Ignites Controversy,” Jezebel, March 19, 2014,
http://jezebel.com/confusing-school-ban-over-distracting-leggings-ignite-1547616678
.
3
.
Maya Dusenberry, “Quick Hit: #Rapecultureiswhen. . . .,”
Feministing
, March 25, 2014,
http://feministing.com/2014/03/25/quick-hit-rapecultureiswhen/
.
4
.
Charles Bartling, “Middle school dress code clarified,” Evanston Now, March 26, 2014,
http://evanstonnow.com/story/education/charles-bartling/2014-03-26/62445/middle-school-dress-code-clarified
.
5
.
Ibid.
6
.
Rachel Raczka, “Students in Ill. Are protesting legging ban,”
Boston.com
, March 25, 2014,
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/2014/03/25/students-ill-are-protesting-legging-ban/rPifhOXhTfntj1Ok6MPC1O/story.html
.
7
.
“What Is Rape Culture?,” Women Against Violence Against Women,
http://www.wavaw.ca/what-is-rape-culture/
.
8
.
Kaelyn Polick-Kirkpatrick, “Man Up and WOW Factor! perpetuate sexism and rape culture,” The State Press, October 8, 2014,
http://www.statepress.com/2014/10/08/man-up-and-wow-factor-perpetuate-sexism-and-rape-culture/
.
9
.
Tara Culp-Ressler, “Why Rape Prevention Activists Don’t Like the New Nail Polish That Can Detect Roofies,”
ThinkProgress
, August 25, 2014,
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/25/3475190/date-rape-nail-polish/
.
10
.
Ibid.
11
.
Katrin Bennhold, “Abuse Cases in British City Long Ignored, Report Says,”
New York Times
, August 26, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/world/europe/children-in-rotherham-england-were-sexually-abused-report-says.html
.
12
.
June Thomas, “At Least 1,400 Children Sexually Exploited in One English Town. How Could This Possibly Happen?,”
Slate
, September 2, 2014,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/09/02/rotherham_sexual_abuse_1400_children_exploited_in_one_english_town_and_authorities.html
; “1,400 Kids Sexually
Abused in U.K. Town,” Daily Beast, August 26, 2014,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/08/26/1-400-kids-sexually-abused-in-rotterham.html
; Isha Aran, “New Details Emerge in Case of Horrifying British Sex Abuse Ring,” Jezebel, September 2, 2014,
http://jezebel.com/new-details-emerge-in-case-of-horrifying-british-sex-ab-1629539480
; “Muslims react with outrage at UK sex abuse report,”
Salon.com
, August 27, 2014,
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/27/muslims_react_with_outrage_at_uk_sex_abuse_report/
; Maya Dusenberry, “Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet,”
Feministing
,
http://feministing.com/?s=rotherham
.
13
.
Celeste Katz, “Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand, colleagues, push for more federal funding to investigate college sexual assaults,”
New York Daily News
, April 7, 2014
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-colleagues-push-federal-funding-investigate-college-sexual-assaults-blog-entry-1.1748384
.
14
.
Christopher P. Krebs, Ph.D., Christine H. Lindquist, Ph.D., Tara D. Warner, M.A., Bonnie S. Fisher, Ph.D., Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., “The Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) Study,” National Institute of Justice, December 2007,
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221153.pdf
.
15
.
Ibid.
16
.
Glenn Kessler, “One in five women in college sexually assaulted: an update on this statistic,”
Washington Post
, December 17, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/17/one-in-five-women-in-college-sexually-assaulted-an-update/
; Caroline Kitchens, “The Rape ‘Epidemic’ Doesn’t Actually Exist,”
U.S. News & World Report
, October 24, 2013,
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2013/10/24/statistics-dont-back-up-claims-about-rape-culture
.
17
.
Jake New, “One in Five?,” Inside Higher Ed, December 15, 2014,
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/15/critics-advocates-doubt-oft-cited-campus-sexual-assault-statistic
.
18
.
Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection,”
Slate
, December 7, 2014,
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/college_rape_campus_sexual_assault_is_a_serious_problem_but_the_efforts.html
.
19
.
Dana Goldstein, “The Dueling Data on Campus Rape,” The Marshall Project, December 11, 2014,
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/11/the-dueling-data-on-campus-rape
.
20
.
George F. Will, “George Will: Colleges become the victims of progressivism,”
Washington Post
, June 6, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
; Hannah Groch-Begley, “A Guide to George Will’s Decades of Attacks On Sexual Assault Victims And ‘Rape Crisis Feminists,’” Media Matters for America, October 15, 2014,
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/10/15/a-guide-to-george-wills-decades-of-attacks-on-s/201166
.
21
.
Joe Strupp, “EXCLUSIVE: NOW President Calls On
Washington Post
to Drop George Will Over Rape Column,” Media Matters for America, June 10, 2014,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/10/exclusive-now-president-calls-for-george-wills/199666
.
22
.
“Tell The
Washington Post
: Fire George Will,” We Are UltraViolet,
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/cms/sign/Fire_George_Will/
.
23
.
Ibid.
24
.
“Letter to George Will from Senators,”
Washington Post
, June 12, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/06/13/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/Letter-to-George-Will-from-Senators.pdf
.
25
.
“George Will responds to senators on his sexual assault column,”
Washington Post
, June 13, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/13/george-will-responds-to-senators-on-his-sexual-assault-column/
.
26
.
Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection.”
27
.
Bonnie S. Fisher, Francis T. Cullen, Michael G. Turner, “The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” National Institute of Justice, December 2000,
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/182369.pdf
.
28
.
Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection.”
29
.
Fisher, Cullen, and Turner, “The Sexual Victimization of College Women.”
30
.
@MDRSWRJ
, tweet, December 8, 2014,
https://twitter.com/MDRSWRJ/status/541989076162052097
.
31
.
Alexandra Brodsky, “7 Things You Should Know About Evidence in Campus Rape Proceedings,”
Feministing
, December 8, 2014,
http://feministing.com/2014/12/08/7-things-you-should-know-about-evidence-in-campus-rape-proceedings/
.
32
.
Alexandra Brodsky, tweet, December 8, 2014,
https://twitter.com/azbrodsky/status/541995401201848321
.
33
.
Christopher P. Krebs, Ph.D., Christine H. Lindquist, Ph.D., Tara D. Warner, M.A., Bonnie S. Fisher, Ph.D., Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., “College Women’s Experiences with Physically Forced, Alcohol- or Other Drug-Enabled, and Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault Before and Since Entering College,”
Journal of American College Health
, August 7, 2010,
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/JACH.57.6.639-649#.VLGQx2TF_oF
.
34
.
“The Left’s Top 25 Journalists,” Daily Beast,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/02/16/the-left-s-top-25-journalists.html
.
35
.
Jessica Valenti, tweet, October 16, 2013,
https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/390501900484747264
.
36
.
Kim LaCapria, “Slate’s Prudie, Emily Yoffe, Thinks Drunk Girls Cause Rape in Infuriating Piece,” Inquisitr, October 16, 2013,
http://www.inquisitr.com/995747/slates-prudie-emily-yoffe-thinks-drunk-girls-cause-rape-in-infuriating-piece/
.
37
.
Thomas, “Emily Yoffe’s Rape Apologism: Some Very Quick Thoughts,”
Yes Means Yes
, October 16, 2013,
https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/emily-yoffes-rape-apologism-some-very-quick-thoughts/
; Katie McDonough, “Sorry, Emily Yoffe: Blaming assault on women’s drinking is wrong, dangerous and tired,”
Salon.com
, October 16, 2013,
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/16/blaming_assault_on_womens_drinking_is_tired_dangerous_rape_apology/
.
38
.
Emily Yoffe, “Emily Yoffe Responds to Her Critics,”
Slate
, October 18, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/18/rape_culture_and_binge_drinking_emily_yoffe_responds_to_her_critics.html
.
39
.
Jonah Goldberg, “
Rolling Stone
Crumbles,” National Review Online, December 5, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394084/rolling-stone-crumbles-jonah-goldberg
.
40
.
Anna Merlan, “‘Is the UVA Rape Story a Gigantic Hoax?’ Asks Idiot,” Jezebel, December 1, 4014,
http://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387
.
41
.
Amanda Marcotte, tweet, December 5, 2014,
https://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/540935488576978945
.