October 2011
vagabondaesthetics asked: The prostitute rape-shoplifting joke always struck me as odd on the surface level. You can't equate the two because prostitutes provide a service (much like a massage, personal trainer, therapist, etc.) and not a 'thing'. But I thought about it and it essentially equates rape of a woman as stealing a 'thing'. When you remove the human horror of it, it plays into partly why...
my irrational black man meme goes like this:
karnythia:
liquornspice:
dopegirlfresh:
“brags about having sex at age 10 with ‘an older girl’ who was actually a baby sittter … doesn’t understand nuances of meaningful consent.”
not funny, right?
yeah, i know.
i’m under the impression that instead of openly expressing anguish or confusion about a lot of the shit that drives these memes, y’all are just doing the memes on some 75/25...
TRIGGER WARNING: Rape Culture ** When talking... →
dionthesocialist:
notforyoutobreak:
*TW: Talk of rape and victim-blaming*
There is really something problematic with saying someone “got raped,” “was raped,” or putting it in the passive voice.
This is much more than just a rant on grammar. IDGAF how much you use passive voice, but I do give a fuck when it comes to this.
You can see it in news reports all the time, “The victim was...
“Unlike most of the other women at my university’s gym, I wasn’t interested in...”
– Abuse, weakness and weight training as feminist resistance « Fit and Feminist
This article as unbelievably eye-opening and articulates something that I’ve wondered about modern society for a long time. It always puzzling to me that in a society like ours which places so much onus on the woman...
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
Oh my god, this. All of this.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
“When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our...”
– Tina Fey (posted in the comments of this article: http://rookiemag.com/2011/09/male-gaze/)
STORY OF MAH LYFE.
So here’s my tale—
Once upon a time I was at ‘Thunder Over Louisville’ with my parents watching the bombass fireworks show. So I’m just standin’ there, mindin my own business and looking...
“When somebody says, “I don’t think women should be raped for wearing short...”
– (via mollay)
My sexuality =/= responsible for my oppression or...
tumblinfeminist:
As a women who fits / is the following:
conventionally attractive
conventionally attractive in a sexual way (large bust/hips-tiny waist)
enjoys makeup
enjoys lingerie, sexualized and ‘sexy’ attire
openly sexual
openly displays sexuality
creates profit from sexuality without exploitation
true sexual exhibitionist
a creator of sexual erotic material that is for sale...
Women, Being Sexy, and the Staring Contest that... →
tumblinfeminist:
raptor-dance:
a list, albeit not a universal or comprehensive one, of things to do when you see a woman dressed all sexy-like.
1. Admire, if it’s your thing. I mean, why not?
2. Don’t stare. It’s rude. And it’s not like the view is going to change from minute to minute–generally, women don’t spontaneously disrobe or hyperinflate their breasts or turn into lizard-people...
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Weary
Tonight, just now, about 15 minutes ago my boyfriend tried to scare me into not walking around the house naked anymore with mythical instances of rape and I’m seriously so upset that I don’t know what to do about it.
I had just gotten out of the shower and I was talking to him about something and I happened to be standing in front of the window naked because I like to walk around...
razingcomplacency:
Death threats and women bloggers.
marcelinethevampirequeer:
mutememoriestalking:
Wtf kind of world is this?
This is despicable. Read it, seriously.
Misogyny today is still strong, especially on the internet where in many places it goes unchallenged and excused. We do not live in a ‘post-feminist’/post-sexist society. These are not random, harmless trolls,...
“i told this guy i was seeing that i wanted to start working out my arms/upper...”
– clementine cannibal (via grrrlvirus)
“Big Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly”
– How most of my classmates remember the resistor colour code. At an avionics course in Canada. (via microaggressions)
While discussing a slightly crappy hostel a friend and I had just booked for our all-female college sports team...
Guy friend: oh my gosh you guys are going to get raped there, and then laughs.
It made me feel like rape is something normalized and generally accepted in our society. Also like it would be our faults if something so horrible happened because we decided to stay there.
n-y-m-p-h-e-t-s:
poptartslutzz:
i would have been raped tonight. i would have been raped tonight if an older couple hadn’t been carrying in groceries from their car as i ran on their porch. i would have been raped tonight by a man in a minivan with an honor student sticker if he hadn’t sped off when they asked me if i was all right. i would have been raped tonight by the laundromat, in the...
