Things that make me angry:

Men who use an absence of ‘the rules’ to rape and abuse women. Also men who use rape as a weapon.

Sexual violence against female protestors at Cairo’s Tahrir Square appears to be increasing, an activist group devoted to end such assaults said Tuesday.

Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault said it intervened in 15 of 19 reported sexual assaults on Friday when 10,000 people gathered in the square on the two-year anniversary of the start of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

“These attacks represent a startling escalation of violence against women in Tahrir Square in terms of the number of incidents and the extremity of the violence which took place,” the group said in a news release.

The organization said some of the cases involved life-threatening violence where the attackers used knives or other weapons. It said some of its members also were attacked during rescue attempts.

“This phenomenon requires urgent attention and treatment, and is linked to the broader social problem of endemic and daily sexual harassment and assault of women,” Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault said.

I’ll have more to say about this later. But I wanted to get this story some exposure.