I hope you don't mind this slantwise response, but I've been thinking about how my hometown's media covers news involving sexual violence. (I've got one news channel on my twitter feed, so I can keep track of the border war.) The constraints of tweeting end up highlighting the biases. A girl is raped, and the headline inevitably refers to sexual abuse or frames it as an adult male having "sexual relations" with the child. A boy or young man is the victim, and the headline screams rape. I've called them on it once, but to call them on it every time would make me sound like a wacko or a broken record. Or that's how I feel anyway. So I've been trying to think of different strategies for addressing their heinous unexamined assumptions.
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