Annotated Bibliography #2

Grufferman, Barbara Hannah. "Does Facebook Condone A "Culture Of Rape"?" The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 15 Aug. 2011. Web. 19 Nov. 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-hannah-grufferman/does-facebook-condone-a-c_b_926309.html>.

This op-ed article published by the Huffington Post deals with the issue of one particular facebook group which centers on a rape joke and the reactions of facebook users and facebook. It also mentions the “slut walk’, an event which I may include in my essay. I think this article will be useful because it offers statistics about rape as well as a useful anecdote about rape culture in social media.
Armah, Esther. "Scar Stories: On White Dudes and Rape Culture." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 06 Nov. 2012. Web. 19 Nov. 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-armah/scar-stories-on-white-dud_1_b_2024639.html>.

Another op-ed from the Huffington Post, this article details most of the very wrong statements that Republican politicians have made lately. One useful quotation that the author makes is from South Dakota Republican Bill Napoli: “A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.” This article will mostly be useful because it contains several quotes to this effect.

Black, Michele C., Kathleen C. Basile, Matthew J. Breiding, Sharon G. Smith, Mikel L. Walters, Melissa T. Merrick, Jieru Chen, and Mark R. Stevens. Www.cdc.gov. Rep. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Nov. 2011. Web. 24 Nov. 2012. <http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf>.
This report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers many useful and relevant statistics on the victims and perpetrators of rape in the United States. It offers a variety of statistics and break downs by race, ethnicity, sex and form of assault. this will lend a lot of logos to my argument because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a trusted government source.

Gandy, Kim, Lisa Bennett, and Gina Mittal. "School Shooters Target Girls, Point to Larger Problem of Violence Against Women." School Shooters Target Girls, Point to Larger Problem of Violence Against Women. National Organization for Women, 10 Oct. 2006. Web. 24 Nov. 2012. <http://now.org/issues/violence/101006school_shootings.html?printable>.
This article published by the National Organization for women (NOW) details recent acts of violence (the Amish school shooting where a milk truck driver shot ten girls, another school attack where a man took several high school girls hostage and sexually assaulted them before killing himself and one hostage) where the targeting of women in particular is overlooked by the media. the article discusses the aggressive ideal of masculinity and violence against women. a possibly useful quote from this article is "Because women are frequently perceived as inferior to men, a presumed insult from, rejection by or upstaging from a woman can damage a fragile ego. In that case, a boy or man looking to reassert his authority may well look to threats or acts of violence as his next course of action."