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Posts tagged with rape
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Tim Barrus: What Is A Moral Compass – NYT
From: Timothée Patrick BarrusCinematheque FilmsAdam B. Ellick, Executive DirectorOpinion Video,New York Times:A Moral CompassWhat I am about to write will probably get the usual Go Away response. And that is fine. I need to share this anyway. In my own work, Go Pro has…
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Tim Barrus: What is Consent
Minor children cannot consent because as minor children, they then become vulnerable, and they mainly do not comprehend what the consequences can be. This is where I usually come into it with my own experiences at being raped. I am really trying not to do that. It’s anecdotal. You cannot…
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Tim Barrus: It is the Church Itself That Rapes Young Boys
I am a communist. Any Church that fundamentally facilitates the Something Wicked This Way Comes Road Map, must confess their sins called sexual violence. You cannot escape it by pretending how normal the Church Is. The Church is the rape of boys. Not really rape, right. Wrong. The whole dog…
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Biden Protects Trump in RAPE Case
The Biden administration is now protecting Trump from any consequences for raping women. I am so disgusted, I regret voting for Joe Biden, and I will never, ever vote for another schizophrenic politician for any office whatsoever. America pretends to be so committed to justice. Why bother voting at all…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Post-apocalyptic cultures are supposed to be the products of fiction. Failed states. Failed people. Failed economic structures. Failed religions. Failed institutions. Failed individuals. Failed public policy. Or all of the above at the same time. It is the mystical belief that our species is impervious to failure that is a…
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Physics
At first, he could not sleep because the nightmares of the assault and rape were far too vivid. He wanted me to sit with him, and then, he would fall asleep. I read a series of books out loud, all of them on some pretty radical visions of what physics…
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A PLAY THEY WROTE
THEY CALLED IT FUCKING IN PAJAMAS Do not demand that I censor them. There was no fucking in pajamas or in anything else. It was a play that explored submission, dominance, and vulnerability. This is far, far more complex than fucking in pajamas. These are not innocent children. They will…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I work with adolescent boys who have HIV. Psychiatric intervention is not enough. Medication is not enough. You have to be there for the kid 24/7. Panic does not share our schedules. Panic does not share the school schedule. Suicide has its own agendas. The idea that “if only, the…
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The Nightmare of Cops Who Rape
Tim Barrus: New York Times The crisp uniform of the police officer conveys power and authority. When a police officer puts on his or her uniform the officer is perceived in a very different way by the public. He or she is viewed as embodying each person’s stereotypes about all…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
If I got anything from scouts, it was rape, abuse, and a gnawing fear that still eats me inside out. Americans believe you can get over it, especially via time. That is simply not true. I am very difficult. I am not compliant. About anything. I see his face. It…
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Rape As Punishment In Juvenile Detention Has to Stop
The Department of Justice estimates that one in every three boys referred to juvenile justice detention is raped. I used to wonder what it might take for people to care enough to put a stop to it. I was naive to put it mildly. Institutions employ rape as overt victimization.…
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MISHA, GO TO BED
Misha doesn’t sleep. We have that in common. I try my best to get stuff done when the house is quiet. Sleep for boys who have been raped and sexually exploited is a big bag of worms. Medical professionals in Public Health (which should be renamed Public Bullshit) never ask…
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When Everyone Else Has Washed Their Hands Of Him
He doesn’t really look at me in the eye. He seems quite bored. What does it mean. It means he’s scared to death. Attitude is only attitude. “Gotta light.” I always gotta light. It seems infinitesimally small. But it’s something. But it’s something. But you gotta give the kid credit…
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Tim Barrus On Being Touched: New York Times
Long before latin became a language, the politics of rape did not mean the translation we think we understand when someone says rape or writes it. Raped meant kidnapped because the Sabines were raped and kidnapped. There was no word for rape in the same way that today we still…
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GAY BOYS RAPED AND DETAINED
It started with the gangs and what is called corrective rape in Central America. It would morph into government police and corrective rape at a police station in a suburb of El Salvador. Javier and Rafael had had enough. When the gangs and the cops represent the combined presence of…
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Men On Men: Tim Barrus: NY Times
I don’t get sports. Never have. Never will. What is it that my masculinity hinges on a stupid game like golf. You follow a little ball around and you hit it. In high school, I was sexually abused in a locker room. I did not go back to that horrid…
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After the Rape is a Slow, Lonely Death, and a Grim-Visaged Dirge
It took him a long time to understand what had happened to him. Slow. Slow. It was as if he couldn’t blink. He couldn’t move. He couldn’t scream. He couldn’t do anything. Slow. Slow. Ninety percent of the boys in the developed world who have been raped multiple times will…
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Tim Barrus: Rape in the War in Central America
Jandro was raped while his family was forced to watch as the gang – Mara Salvatrucha – that had invaded his village, attacked families at random who lived in the hills of Guatemala. The nearest city to where Jandro lived, El Estor, is fifty miles away. Entire communities in the…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Boys Raped
Some kids have never had real parents. They have always parented themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html?comments#permid=31096013 College admission? I work with young adolescent boys with HIV. In rural Appalachia. Reading about parenting is like reading about Mars. Every boy has been raped. You think not. Overly dramatic. Yet rape is a way of…