Posts Tagged ‘cars’

Victim Blaming, In Rape Cases and Fatal Car Accidents

Last night, I re-read Gene Weingarten's Pulitzer Prize-winning feature on parents who accidentally forget their infants in the backseats of their cars, leaving them to swelter to death in the heat. And since I can make connections to rape culture out of practically anything, I was struck by this section in Weingarten's story, about the [...]

Nevermind About That Sexually Confident Female Office Assistant

It looks like our discriminatory Rockville car repair company got the message that their job ad in search of a hot female employee didn't exactly jibe with Montgomery County employment laws. The company has removed its Craigslist ad specifying an "attractive" "gal" who is "confident with her sexuality," and replaced it with this sanitized version [...]