IMO yes — Fort Drum Rape Case or somesuch would be standard headline jargon. Off the cuff I'm not 100% sure I'd use (I spend longer than I care to admit when it comes to thinking about the headlines) but it's not definitive, it's not saying if it was at Fort Drum or involves Fort Drum employees, etc. It's legally…

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From It Happened to Her: xoJane Screwed Up Her Disney World Rape Story

It Happened to Her: xoJane Screwed Up Her Disney World Rape Story

I've long hesitated to write much criticism about fellow ladyblogs. It's not a matter of camaraderie or believing that our peers are immune to criticism. It's more like: We're all trying to do our own thing and do it in our own ways, as best we can and, yes, I am aware, it's not like Jezebel is perfect. What's the…

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So once upon a time, I worked at Vanity Fair — and this is purely based on my experiences there (and also within the greater Condé Nast culture and magazine hierarchy), but I'm of the opinion that VF most definitely not a women's mag. Ladies buy it, totally. But so do men, and the articles are pretty evenly balanced as …

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From How We Got the Idea That Ladymags Don't Publish 'Serious Journalism'
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