Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution (29 page)

 
12
  NPR.org, 23 March 2011,
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/26/anonymous-uk-founder-accused-rape

 
13
  
www.bbc.co.uk
– 2 May 2013 – Occupy London activist cleared of rape at St Paul’s camp.

 
14
  
www.zerdredge.com
,
27 December 2011.

 
15
  
http://www.oneinfourusa.org/statistics.php

 
16
  Jackson Katz, TED Talk,
http://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue.html

CHAPTER 3: ANTICLIMAX

 
1
    See Adam Ant, ‘Ligotage’ – ‘don’t say you like it. You’re not allowed to like it.’

 
2
    
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13320785

 
3
    
http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report.aspx

 
4
    Ibid.

 
5
    ‘legitimate rape’ – a phrase made infamous by Congressman Todd Akin,  
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/us/politics/todd-akin-provokes-ire-with-legitimate-rape-comment.html?_r=0

 
6
    Shere Hite,
The Hite Report
, Collier Macmillan, New York, 1976.

 
7
    Cuckold’s defence removed from statutes, 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7528652.stm

 
8
    For example, the Irish Republic.

 
9
    Cynthia A. Freeland,
Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle
, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

 
10
  Forced counselling law, 
http://www.reproductivereview.org/index.php/site/article/184/

 
11
  
www.rapecrisis.org.uk/statistics2.php
.

 
12
  Rousseau ‘the appearance of correct behavior must be among women’s duties, 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Emile
, Book V, p. 358.

 
13
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Emile
, Book V, p. 358.

 
14
  Katie Roiphe,
Newsweek
,  16 April 2012,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/15/working-women-s-fantasies.html

 
15
  Valerie Tanico, Alternet, 25 July 2005 –
http://www.alternet.org/america-place-where-doctors-need-bullet-proof-vests-protect-themselves-christian-fundamentalists

 
16
  Andrew Goldman, ‘Our Lady of Contraception’,
New York Times
, 22 June 2012.

 
17
  Dan Almira,
NY
Magazine, ‘Rick Santorum Preaches Evils of Contraception’ –
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/02/rick-santorum-contraception-birth-control-sex.html

 
18
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Emile
, Book V, p. 358.

 
19
  Caitlin Moran,
How to be a Woman
, Ebury Press, 2012.

 
20
  
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/adolescents-arent-having-much-sex-despite-all-hype-contrary

 
21
  Of course, a great many women are both of these things.

 
22
  DWP 2011, ‘Households below Average Income: an Analysis of the Income Distribution 1994–5/2009–11’.

 
23
  Witness the derision heaped on the family of ‘Honey Boy Boo’ or ‘Octomom’ in the United States.

 
24
  Ann Rossiter,
Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora:
The Abortion Trail and the Making of a London-Irish Underground
, 1980-2000 (New York: IASC Publishing, 2009).

 
25
  According to the UN
World Abortion Policies 2011
publication, abortion in case of rape and incest is accepted in 49% of countries, but only in a third for socio-economic reasons.

 
26
  For example, Spain and Republic of Ireland

 
27
  For example, Pope Francis –
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/13/22288490-pope-francis-makes-toughest-remarks-yet-on-horrific-abortion?lite

 
28
  This is called ‘post-abortion syndrome’ and has no medical basis. See ‘The Post Abortion Syndrome Myth’.
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/myths/post_abortion_syndrome.html

 
29
  Rape, Abuse and Incest Nation Network statistics,
www.rainn.org/statistics

 
30
  Ibid.

 
31
  Jessica Valedi,
The Nation
, on Woody Allen, January 2014,
http://www.thenation.com/blog/178203/choosing-comfort-over-truth-what-it-means-defend-woody-allen

CHAPTER 4: CYBERSEXISM

 
1
    Donna Haraway. See Interview with
Donna J. Haraway
,
Cyborg Manifesto
, 1987.

 
2
    Ibid.

 
3
    Ibid.

 
4
    
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/helen-lewis-hasteley/
2011
/
11
/comments-rape-abuse-women
.

 
5
    
http://madelineashby.com/?p=1198

 
6
    
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/girl-geeks-and-boy-kings

 
7
    Tanith Carey,
Where Has My Little Girl Gone?
, Lion Books, Oxford, 2011),
https://www.getsafeonline.org/safeguarding-children/#.Uw26z_l_tN8

 
8
    
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10489265/Domestic-violence-death-toll-will-rise-due-to-funding-cuts.html

 
9
    
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9816860/Vile-online-misogyny-is-enough-to-put-women-off-appearing-in-public-says-Mary-Beard.html

 
10
  Helen Lewis, ‘What it’s like to be a victim of Don’t Start Me Off’s internet hate mob’,
New Statesman
, 27 January 2013.

 
11
  Ben Dowell, ‘Mary Beard row: website owner says sorry but accuses friends of “trolling”’,
Guardian
, 25 January 2013.

 
12
  Cristina Odone, ‘Mary Beard is clever. So how can she be cross that Question Time viewers mocked her looks?’,
Daily Telegraph
, 22 January 2013.

 
13
  Germaine Greer,
The Female Eunuch
,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1970, p. 263.

 
14
  
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2013/11/ms-male-character-tropes-vs-women/

 
15
  
http://www.newstatesman.com/internet/2013/08/diary-internet-trolls-twitter-rape-threats-and-putting-jane-austen-our-banknotes

 
16
  
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/laurie-penny-a-womans-opinion-is-the-miniskirt-of-the-internet-6256946.html

 
17
  
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/07/what-online-harassment-looks

 
18
  Interview with Maha Rafi Atal.

 
19
  Katherine Losse,
The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network
, Free Press, New York, 2005.

 
20
  Ibid.

 
21
  
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/fa_thompson/

 
22
  Author interview; see also Katherine Losse,
The Boy Kings
.

 
23
  
http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women_p2.html

 
24
  Ibid.

 
25
  
http://coalescent.dreamwidth.org/431233.html

 
26
  
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-meritocracy-and-the-cult-of-the-entrepreneur-holds-people-back/

 
27
  Cordelia Fine,
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
, Icon Books, London, 2009.

 
28
  Simon Baron-Cohen,
The Essential Difference
, Penguin Press, London, 2004; see also
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/apr/17/research.highereducation

 
29
  
http://gawker.com/tag/violentacrez

CHAPTER 5: LOVE AND LIES

 
1
    
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17926/1/what-doris-taught-us

 
2
    Tiqqun et al.,
Introduction to Civil War
, MIT Press (2010).

 
3
    bell hooks,
All about Love
, Harper Perennial, London, 2001.

 
4
    
http://www.avclub.com/article/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-emeli-15577

 
5
    Douglas Rushkoff,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
, Current, New York, 2013.

 
6
    Scott Neustadter,
500 Days of Summer
(2009).

 
7
    
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/zoe-kazan-ruby-sparks-manic-pixie-dream-girl_n_1683841.html

 
8
    Kate Zambreno,
Heroines
, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2012.

 
9
    The World’s Women 2010 – Trends and Statistics, UN Report.

 
10
  Eli J. Finkel, ‘The All or Nothing Marriage’,
New York Times
, 14 February 2014.

 
11
  ‘Beyond Gay Marriage’,
Nation
, 29 June 2005.

 
12
  Samhita Mukhopadhyay,
Outdated : Why Dating Is Ruining Your Life
, Seal Press, Berkeley, 2012.

 
13
  Ibid.