December 2011
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via holdmecloser-tonydanza)
Rape culture is the reason I am so fucking paranoid.
(via madamedevideoland)
Yep.
(via...
November 2011
“When your only female character exists to be bartered and abused, that is lazy...”
– Monica Byrne.
Zing.
(via mehreenkasana)
Hey, DC comics, check it out.
(via shearsandsnares)
Yes!
(via purplepigfeathers)
I had to read several texts last year for my literature class where they used rape of women to develop their male characters in their stories and turn them into better...
“Whenever a man stands up for the basic human rights of a woman, his act...”
– One man’s modest plea for womankind’s right to nonviolence (via sociolab)
“[TW: rape] Rape exceptions are there to relieve anti-choice consciences more...”
– Amanda Marcotte, Why Rape Exceptions For Abortion Don’t Work (Slate)
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This!
(via sanityscraps)
I dislike Stalker Music
peecharrific:
and Imbalanced Movies. I don’t like the fictional Hollywood Love we convince ourselves is real.
In real life? You sit outside someone’s window while they are sleeping, you break into someone’s home to watch them do whatever they are doing, you control and abuse someone? You’re not sexy. That’s not sexy. It’s criminal.
I’m sad for so many women people who believe Edward was “just...
“Few things worry me more than people (okay, men) who say it’s difficult to know...”
– The Pervocracy: Beyond not rape.
So true. I am always stunned when people claim the “it’s hard to tell” card on consent - if you can’t tell if your partner/s consenting to, let alone enjoying sex: you’re doing it wrong. (via sissypizza)
I’m guessing that men who say this can tell, they just don’t...
[trigger warning: rape] No disrespect to rape...
thecurvature:
transsexualferox:
jaded16india:
thatfeministwithglasses:
corrinda:
I don’t get why so many won’t go to the police or press charges. They seem to think that it was their fault, or they’re embarassed about it. If I were raped, I would know it’s not my fault and though I would be embarassed, I wouldn’t be completely humiliated. If I were raped, as soon as I’m let go, I’m...
Hey, guys? Do me a favor.
face-down-asgard-up:
rurone:
Imagine that it’s night and you’re walking out to your car. Maybe you’ve been working late, maybe you’re headed home from a party; either way, you’re alone.
When do you take out your keys?
My male friends reliably blink and cock their heads. They don’t understand the question.
“Um… when I get to my car?”
My female friends all instantaneously say “I’ve had them...
Things I have learned as a fat person (warnings:...
homotronic:
inautumn-inkashmir:
Fat people should never admit that they need sustenance, much less like it. Admitting that you enjoy food while fat will cause the non-fat to criticize you for being unable to control yourself around food. Especially if you have a sweet tooth or like potato chips. Things like that are only acceptable if you are not fat.
Fat people are unable to have eating...
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The Six-year-old Registered Sex Offender →
atheism-universalism-politics:
A six-year-old boy from Wisconsin, USA has been charged with 1st degree sexual assault (a Class B felony). He was found guilty of playing “butt doctor” with a five-year-old girl. Once he turns 18, he will be listed as a sex offender.
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With stuff like this I feel like “they” (the people in charge) take minor issues to the extreme so that...
Grimm: DeathList
karnythia:
peecharrific:
In the episode titled “Lonelyhearts”, 18 women were kidnapped and raped, 14 of the 18 were impregnated, 3 of the 18 were trapped in cages, one of the 18 was murdered, and 2 others were victims of sexual assault.
This is Grimm. This is one episode of Grimm. The 18 female victims were all talked about within the first 20 minutes of the program.
I literally cannot...
tw: rape
wateroftheclearestblue:
if you tell a rape joke, i will disengage from you immediately. i don’t care who you are.
my trauma is not your joke to make. my experiences and those of my friends are not your laugh track. the only circumstance in which i would find rape ‘humor’ acceptable is if it is a coping mechanism of a survivor told in the company of those who expressly do not mind and you do not...
“[TW: rape culture] One of Jerry Sandusky’s alleged molestation victims, now 17...”
– Bullies Forced an Alleged Sandusky Victim to Leave His High School - National - The Atlantic Wire (via notemily)
#i don’t want to live on this planet anymore basically.
(via pitselly)
This is FUCKED UP.
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
One of the things that helps keep powerful people in positions of...
“ratquest: i just don’t understand guys like that???? shave this and don’t wear...”
– serpentine lion:
(via littlehonda)
daily life
(via youcancuttheflower)
6 Ways to Teach Girls How to Deal With Idiots That... →
creolesoul:
A study released by the American Association of University Women, reveals the degree to which sexual harassment occurs to girls (and boys) in 7th-12th grades: 56% of girls surveyed had experienced it in school.
If you are a man and you are not sure what street harassment is, check here, because every woman, literally every woman, knows. Regardless of race, class, ethnicity,...
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)(via one-bite-at-a-time)(via roachpatrol)
a friend had me practice saying “no” to the contractor who’s started kissing the top of my head at work. every time i said it i shrank down inside myself. it’s a very difficult thing to do.
(via...
“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via azelie)
Sexual self-awareness is crucial to actually enjoying sex, to knowing what you are doing, why you are doing it, and…well, all that jazz. I’d ramble more about it…because I’m a big fan of sex-positivism, but…I’m...
If you're going to try that Penn State...
stfusexists:
This shit has been out in the open for weeks now. You think I haven’t heard every half-assed argument there is rationalizing Paterno and McQueary’s actions, or disgusting lack thereof? Trust me, I have. And none of it changes the fact that children were raped without consequence for years, and some of those children could and should have been spared that horror and weren’t because...
[TW: rape, abuse] The right to feel safe.
anotherlgbttumblr:
Let’s get one thing straight: what sexism and rape culture in our society does to women is horrible. It’s fucked up, it’s sick and it can never be tolerated.
BUT
Your right to feel safe NEVER means you can deny others their right to feel safe.
Your need to feel safe and comfortable doesn’t mean that you can kick masculine-looking transwomen out of your bathrooms. It...
“Women are seen so much as public property, as objects to look at and judge, that...”
– Jessica Velenti - He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (via misscoldroses)
You know what? Sometimes, consent is NOT sexy....
Sucker Punch: A film about Rape, Dissociation and...
tumblinfeminist:
**TRIGGER AND SPOILER WARNING**
After watching Sucker Punch for the first time tonight I found myself disagreeing with almost every feminist’s review of the film, as well as most mainstream critics, may of whom I don’t believe understand what the film is about. Nor must they understand certain mental illness like dissociation identity disorder, disassociation or shock. It’s...
On objectification.
steviemcfly:
A lot of dudes say they wish they were objectified sexually like women are. And I admit, it can definitely be fun. But that’s because it’s something rare for men in our society. It’s not the same for women.
Think about your favorite food. Now imagine that every day since you hit puberty, you had to eat that food. And I don’t mean it was just part of the menu. I mean you were forced...
Over It
zoedelaluna:
Over It
I am over rape.
I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.
I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their real names without shame.
I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.
I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am over being...
“[W]hen you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex becomes an...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via sexisnottheenemy)
Ooooh this is an excellent point. (via celticthistle)
Which, sadly, feeds directly into rape culture.
When children are told, for instance, that sex is what people do when they “love each...
“In 1999, Paterno defended linebacker LaVar Arrington after he assaulted a...”
– I Bleed Crimson Red: Paterno knew in 1990s about multiple Sandusky child molestations, may face new state and federal investigations
oh, look. turns out that when you’re trying to cover up a child prostitution ring, you don’t much care when your players stab somebody 90 times or rape/beat multiple...
Isn't it funny that we only do it with rape?
If I was to steal a chocolate bar because it was sitting at the counter looking all tasty, it’d be theft. Nobody would say but oh, look at the creamy picture on the packaging. It was taunting him. He had no choice. It was instinct. Impulse. Drives and desires beyond his control.
If I walked into some person’s home and said I lived there, I’d be arrested. Nobody would say to the owners that they...
TW: Rape Culture & Black Women in American History
karnythia:
Want to know why more rapes of enslaved black women weren’t reported or recorded? Because it was not a crime. Even when slavery was over, it still wasn’t a crime to rape us. Hell even it went on the books as a crime, how long do you think it took for anyone to prosecute it? How interested in prosecution was that society that had made a point of creating archetypes like Mammy &...
Dear Writers of Glee (corrected twitter name)
nuestrahermana:
(TW: Rape, Sexual assault)
You made a joke about Brittany being raped today. Nobody addressed it. Her entire group of Glee friends somehow looked over it and she was used as the center of the joke. That somehow, because she is seen as “dumb” this was the reason her being raped at camp at who knows what young age, is supposed to be just another stupid-britt LOL moment.
Or as you...
Fake "Clinic" Cons 17-Year-Old Girl
delacroix:
fuelingit:
panasonicyouth:
lesboner:
prolongedeyecontact:
An Indiana mother recently accompanied her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend to one of Indiana’s Planned Parenthood clinics, but they unwittingly walked into a so-called “crisis pregnancy center” run by an anti-abortion group, one that shared a parking lot with the real Planned Parenthood clinic and was designed...
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
“ [TRIGGER WARNING: misogyny, rape culture]
‘Cause the thing is, you and the...”
– My brilliant friend Kate Harding (via sanitywatchers)
SO. GOOD.
(via notaskingforpermission)
If you haven’t, you might just be that guy.
(via southerntellect)
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“I feel most unsafe not in the room with a client, but in social environments...”
– Sex in Words: Sexual Spectrum: Lusty Day
Really great interview with Lusty Day. I met her at a conference about a year and a half ago, and she is one rad lady.
(via workingsex)
“It’s not too much to ask men and boys to “look, but don’t touch.” A young woman...”
– Sexy Halloween Costumes for Girls Don’t Cause Rape — The Good Men Project (via sexisnottheenemy)
(TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE) This is Why Women Are... →
chauvinistsushi:
This past Thursday, a group of men started cat-calling/hitting on a group of women in Chicago. When the women said, no, the men threw bottles and then SHOT at their car as they tried to drive away. One woman was shot in the shoulder, and the driver took a bottle in the head as she tried to drive off. Last month in Washington, DC a Transwoman was shot for turning down a...
