<![CDATA[Fear Us - Blog]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 07:40:36 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[New Website]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:55:20 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/new-websiteI have added a lot to the website and hope to keep the blog reasonably active.

I have added two pages and a twitter account:

A statistics page: ...offering statistics is a tricky thing, yet it is the most requested. I discovered some statistics based on research done by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics that are a lot more reliable then what is presented in the original FearUs.org's image.

A links page:  This still needs to be worked on. So if you have any sites that would be relevant comment below. I reserve the right to pick and choose. For example, I want sites that are positive and do not advocate violence.

And here's our Twitter: https://twitter.com/FearUsorg

Blog: The purpose of this blog is to discuss consent culture, rape culture, and media representations, news, politics, etc. that touch upon sexual assault and personal freedoms. Entries might include website reviews, bad/good news of the week, etc.  If I get enough readership I would want to ask people to do guest blogs.
]]><![CDATA[About a Year and a Half Later...]]>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:59:04 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/about-a-year-and-a-half-laterSo.

First I would like to apologize to anyone who expected an answer via email or sent me comments that deserved an answer. I don't know if you will ever read this.  I have received a fair share of disheartened comments which lead to me not checking the website's email.

As you can imagine I have received a lot of email...some of it is really interesting.  Enough to devote some time for some big updates.  Expect at least two before the end of the year. If you want to be updated, comment below or drop me an email at contact@fearus.org asking to be notified in the event of an update.

I am also considering advertising on the site--enough to pay for a domain name renewal and possibly better domain hosting with any extra to a charity.  Feel free to comment or email me your thoughts on that.


Also, Katee Sackhoff retweeted this image...wow.  I guess in a weird way I can finally say a celeb tweeted a website I own.  I wish it would have been another website.  But this goes to show that the survey image will continue to circulate...so I better keep this website up.



tl;dr:  I'm sorry for not answering emails. I'm growing some thicker skin to ignore the nasty ones. I will be better at correspondence. Expect two big updates. I would like some opinions on advertising on this site.  

Thanks for reading!
]]><![CDATA[A month later + Free access to some scholarly papers through eScholarship and UCSF]]>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:42:14 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/a-month-later-free-access-to-some-scholarly-papers-through-escholarship-and-ucsfThank you a million times over.
The response to this website has been very overwhelming. Again, I want to thank everyone who has written in. At one point I was keeping a spreadsheet with who I had responded to, but even that got messy and an unwieldy. But if you wrote in, and you know who you are, thank you.

Posting Stuff
I know many of you sent website links or have asked me to post surveys. I only want to post academically peer reviewed material (at this point).

However,
I believe if I continue to update this blog eventually some personal opinion will fall through. If anything through making this website and searching for answers I found that if anything I was frustrated with the access of academic resources available to someone who is not in academia. Which leads me to say...

eScholarship and UCSF's open access policy!
Therefore, one link I am going to celebrate is eScholarship, started through the University of California. Here you may find many academic articles free for public reading. What is really exciting is that the University of California, San Francisco's academic senate recently voted in favor of allowing all of their research papers to be public and free to access. According to the press release: "The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy and among the first public universities to do so."

]]><![CDATA[Not the whole story, but a little info & website changes]]>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:02:55 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/not-the-whole-story-but-a-little-info1) A page created on the study itself is here. It includes info on how the study was conducted.

2) I re-arranged the main page because it was getting messy and a lot of information was put on individual pages, as seen along the top.

3) The book in which I read about the study: Rape and Sexual Assault II, edited by Ann Burgess [Note that WorldCat is sometimes incomplete]. I apologize for not listing it sooner, but I wanted to make sure I was able to have access to the book. The closest library that had it I could not check it out, since I was not a student, and to make copies I needed a student ID card. Argh. The next library that had it was another hour away.  A little selfish, I know.

I will be doing another post more about the part of the study I read about.  If you want to link the image, the url is:

http://i.imgur.com/jC60m8B.png
Picture
]]><![CDATA[Still here. ]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:37:34 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/still-hereSo, I think my brain exploded a little.  I just wanted to let anyone who cared know that I was able to obtain a paper in which parts of the study were analyzed and discussed. The data presented in the image does stem from the study conducted by Goodchilds, Zellman, Johnson & Giarrusso.

However, the data is badly represented in the image that has been circulating and, just to let you know, this came from a rather large study that looked into other aspects of sexual socialization of adolescents. It wasn't just a "poll" of circle "yes" or "no" handed out on a piece of paper. 

Also wanted to say thanks to everyone who has given me thanks and words of encouragement. I've received a lot of info on current studies also! I'll put links up eventually to ones I feel are reliable/credible.

*Not the number of interviewees, but the amount of information they attempted to gather.
]]><![CDATA[Updated Contact Info]]>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:47:14 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/updated-contact-infoI have an email, contact@fearus.org.  So far with tests between friends it works. If you don't hear from me in a couple of days, try the contact form.

Also, under Contacts the form to contact me is still there, but also with an option if you want to receive updates if I change this site to a blog or hub or ?.
]]><![CDATA[Interesting Info about the study from I Never Called It Rape]]>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:27:22 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/interesting-info-about-the-study-from-i-never-called-it-rapeBasically there were three things of interest I included on the main page:

1) In addition to Goodchilds, the rest of the researchers mentioned (Gail Zellman, Paula D. Johnson, and Roseann Giarrusso ) were all researchers at UCLA at the time. 

2) The study did not use the term "rape." 

3) The study, in addition to the survey data presented in the table, also included giving the teenagers "27 vignettes of dating experiences and asked them to rate..." [sorry, page cuts off].

I Never Called It Rape. Robin Warshaw.
Source.

Thanks John, Morgan, & many others!
]]><![CDATA[Updated Survey & Statistics?]]>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:03:37 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/updated-survey-statisticsI've had A LOT of emails that ask if there has been a similar survey or study done recently, or comment about how interesting it would be if the study was done now (and maybe with a slightly older group).

If you know of any study please let me know.
]]><![CDATA[Is the data from a book, paper, article or presentation?]]>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:45:14 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/is-the-data-from-a-book-paper-article-or-presentationMany websites show that Adolescents' Cues and Signals - Sex and Assault was a
"Paper presented as a contribution to the Western Psychological Association Meeting Symposium, 'Acquaintance Rape and Adolescent Sexuality,' in San Diego, California, April 1979." [NCJRS, Eric]

I'll also try and go through some of the books listed in the Google Book search to see if the table was reproduced there.

Opinion: Some academics will often present their data at a conference of their peers in order to get feedback before they send their article out to journals to be peer reviewed (basically to work out all the kinks). So, it is quite possible that this research was presented at a conference and later published as a paper, or to have had part of the data appear across many of their publications.

Thanks to: Will, Greg, Morgan, HJ, and anyone else I missed.  If first name is too revealing, message me and I'll remove it.
]]><![CDATA[Added Source of Chart]]>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:20:20 GMThttp://www.fearus.org/blog/added-source-of-chartMany people (including someone who claims to be the original poster, thanks!) have emailed in stating the source of the chart is from the book Sexual Violence: Opposing Viewpoints (2003) edited by Helen Cothran.  You can see part of the chart by searching for Goodchilds on Google Books.

Goodchilds herself is not shown as an author, according to the table of contents as seen on WorldCat and Wikipedia. More interesting is the fact "Fear Us" is shown to be an author of the chapter "Pornography Causes Sexual Violence."  According to the Wayback Machine, there is a page on Pornography on the original FearUs.org .
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