Tag Archives: rape

My Heroes Have Always Been Human

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Callen Harty

We live in a world in which no one can be a hero anymore. There is always something problematic about those who are admired by others. There is always a past, a mistake, a misstep of one sort or another, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abus, adulation, adult survivor, championship, change, childhood sex abuse, culture, death, disappointment, fame, families, fault, forgiveness, healing, heroes, human, hurt, Kobe Bryant, love, misstep, mistake, offenses, penance, rape, redemption, sin, society, spiritual evolution, sports, stars, superstardom, victim, wealth | Leave a comment

Pictures of a Lost Youth

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Callen Harty

Trigger warning: This post talks about child sex abuse. Please take care of yourself. My sister has been looking through old photos that my mother had and posting some online for those who are pictured in them. Recently she posted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aftereffects, Anne Frank, boy, child sex abuse, childhood, emotions, fear, goodness, guilt, happy, high school graduation, hopeful, idealistic, lost innocence, memories, pain, photo, pictures, positive, rape, sadness, sexual abuse, shame, smile, survivors, teen years, trigger warning, vulnerable | Leave a comment

Profiles in Cowardice

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Callen Harty

On Friday, the remaining holdouts on the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation announced their intentions in the vote that is scheduled for Saturday. For those who are survivors of sexual assault, the likely vote of 51 to 49 to confirm–unless something major … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abuse, agenda, Arkansas, attempted rape, body language, Brett Kavanaugh, Chuck Grassley, citizens, compassion, conscience, corroborate, corrupted, cowardice, Democrats, Donald Trump, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, drinking, drugs, elderly, empathy, false memories, FBI, fear, harassment, healing, hearing, heart attack, House, investigation, Jeff Flake, Joe Manchin, John F. Kennedy, jurist, justice, lap dog, left-wingers, LGBT, lied under oath, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, molested, money, old queen, Orrin Hatch, partisan, people of color, political cover, politics, poor, power, Presidential ambitions, Profiles in Courage, rape, Republicans, right-wing conservative, Ron Johnson, self-blame, self-hatred, Senate, sexual assault, shame, Supreme Court, survivors, Susan Collins, Tom Cotton, Utah, violence, West Virginia, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

Open Letter to Bishop Morlino

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Callen Harty

Bishop Morlino, This is in response to your recent letter (August 18, 2018) to priests and parishioners of the Diocese of Madison. I am writing this as a gay man, a fallen-away Catholic, an adult survivor of childhood sex abuse … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abuse, adult females, adult males, alcohol and drub abuse, altar boys, America, American Psychiatric Association, bigotry, Bishop Morlino, Bishopaccountability.org, bishops, bottom line, Catholic, Catholic Church, celibate, child abuse, child of God, childhood sex abuse, children, Chile, clergy, crime, Dark Ages, defrocked, Diocese of Madison, educate, evil, funerals, gay, gay men, gender, God, grand jury, groomed, heterosexual, homosexual, human rights, improper contact, Ireland, lesbians, Lord, love, marriage equality, Milwaukee, minors, molestation, northern Wisconsin, orientation, parishioners, pastoral work, pastors, patriarchy, pedophilia, Pennsylvania, perversion, Pope, Pope Francis, power, priests, public relations, rape, Rape Crisis Center, recovery, scriptures, sexua abuse, sexual acts, sin, State of Wisconsin, straight men, superiors, survivor, theology, therapy, transgender, Vatican, vicar general, victims, violence, William Nolan, Wisconsin, women | 7 Comments

The Real Story of Assault

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Callen Harty

The way that America’s media and Americans’ attention span works it will likely be another couple or few weeks that everyone is fascinated by all the sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and child sex abuse stories popping up every day. Because … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al Franken, America, assault, B list celebrities, Bill Cosby, celebrity culture, child sex abuse, Child Victims Act, Erin's Law, Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Jerry Sandusky, Josh Duggar, journalists, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK, New York Times, President, R. Kelly, rape, reality television, rich and famous, Roman Polanski, Roy Moore, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, stars, survivors, victims, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

On Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Rape Culture

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Callen Harty

Here’s the deal. Donald Trump’s video discussion with Billy Bush about women is a disgusting display of male privilege, misogyny, and the rape culture in which we live. It is indefensible. Donald Trump’s behavior in that recording is inexcusable, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abuse, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Billy Bush, Catholic Church, child molestation, consent, Democrats, Donald Trump, election, justification, locker room talk, male privilege, misogyny, objectification, patriarchal culture, rape, rape culture, sexual assault, sexual harassment, shame, survivor, women | Leave a comment

Wrap Around the Capitol, 2016

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Callen Harty

I was invited to speak at Wrap Around the Capitol, an annual event sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This is what I chose to say: Thank you to WCASA for sponsoring this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Capitol, child sex abuse, Child Victims Act, denim, Erin's Law, rape, rape victim, sexual assalt, sexual violence, survivor, victim accompaniment, victim blaming, WCASA, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault | Leave a comment

Wisconsin Justice

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Callen Harty

Inexperienced, unqualified, bigoted, highly partisan, and beholden to rich supporters. This is Wisconsin justice in 2016. As a gay man, as a citizen of this once-great state, as a person whose family has lived here since 1827, I am so far beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abortion, AIDS, anti-Democrat, anti-women, Camille Paglia, conservative Governor Scott Walker, Constitutuion, contraception, corporate shill, discrimination, faggot, gay, gay rights, Holocaust, homophobic, Joanne Kloppenburg, jurist, Justice Patrick Crook, lesbian, Milwaukee County Circuit Court, non-partisan, pedophiles, personhood, precedent, queer, rape, Rebecca Bradley, right-wing, sexual abuse, slavery, suicide, victim blaming, Willie Horton, Wisconsin Club for Growth, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Wisconsin Justice, Wisconsin Right to Life, Wisconsin Supreme Court | 1 Comment

The Real Danger of Ted Cruz is Scott Walker

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Callen Harty

Ted Cruz became the first officially announced candidate for President on Monday when he delivered a speech before a captive (literally) audience at the ironically named Liberty University. He is one of the most strident, intractable candidates I can recall … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "right to work", abortion, Affordable Care Act, ALEC, American Horror Story, American Legislative Exchange Council, Assembly, BarackObama, Barnum & Bailey, Ben Carson, big business, candidate, Christian, collective bargaining, conservative, Constitution, contraception, corporate overloards, David Ludwig, Donald Trump, drug-testing, economy, equality, evolution, Great Britain, Harley, homosexuality, incest, Jeb Bush, Kohl's, laborers, legislators, liberal, Liberty University, marriage equality, Medicaid, minimum wage, Obamacare, personhood amendment, politician, President, radical right-wingers, rape, redistribution of wealth, Republican, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagon, school vouchers, Scott Walker, Senate, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, The Atlantic, trickle-down economics, unions, welfare, Wisconsin | Leave a comment

The Lesson of the Cosby Case

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Callen Harty

I remember watching I Spy back in the 1960s and I remember that I enjoyed Robert Culp and Bill Cosby in it. At the time I was too young to realize that having a black man in such a role was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 7th Heaven, Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby, child sex abuse survivor, Cliff Huxtable, courage, date rape, denial, Facebook, Fat Albert, Frankenstein, I Spy, immoral behavior, Internet, Jerry Sandusky, Linda Traitz, monster, perpetrators, rape, Robert Culp, sexual abuse, sexual assault, statute of limitations, Stephen Collins, The Cosby Show, Twitter, victim blaming | 1 Comment

Hazing and Other Misconceptions

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Callen Harty

Sometimes the news media irritate the hell out of me with their lack of professionalism and how little attention to detail they pay to anything. They ignore stories of great import, misidentify the real issues, and sensationalize other stories to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged B. Boat, commenters, control, forum, gang rape, gay, gender, Hazing, initiate, Internet, interpretation, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, journalist, M. Everson, Michael Brown, New York Daily News, news media, orientation, perpetrators, point-of-view, power, rape, sadism, Sayreville High School, Sayreville High School football team, sexual abuse, sexual assault | 1 Comment

Survivor Story

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Callen Harty

Trigger Warning: Parts of this blog post may be triggering. Please take care of yourself and seek out help if you can. A couple months ago I was invited to do a presentation at Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s “Sexual … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abuse, advocates, alcoholism, anger, arts, child sex abuse, coming out, drug abuse, emotions, femininity, forgiveness, gender, gender roles, heart attack, homophobia, Invisible Boy, male survivor, masculinity, play, promiscuity, prostitution, PTSD, rape, self-abuse, self-blame, self-hatred, sex abuse, Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy School, sexuality, spirituality, suicide, survivor, therapy, victim, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA), writing | 9 Comments