ejacutastic:

pizzaforpresident:

I’m so done with this planet

this woman saved two people

and you’re showing everyone that her bathing suit slipped whILE SHE WAS DRAGGING LIMP DROWNING PEOPLE OUT OF THE OCEAN

cognitivedissonance:

everybodylikeskitridge:

juicyjacqulyn:

jellobatch:

themyskira:

Hannah Gadsby on rape culture (x)

Real shit

How to make a joke involving rape

mock rape culture (aka bring awareness), NOT the victim

good stuff

Thumbs up

Truth

fuckyeahfeminists:

abettermanthani:

queerassfemme:

made re-bloggable for tatscobabble <33

Just because the drinks are free doesn’t mean women have to drink them, just sayin. There is some degree of blame you can put on women in this situation for drinking to begin with. drinking in moderation. Not protecting the men in this situation that would do this, just pointing out that girls have a choice to not drink or get belligerently drunk. 

Is this response a parody or something?

OK, Mr. Genuinely Nice Guy. Here’s the thing.

First of all, women are already inundated with messaging that we’re to blame if something happens to us. So I guess thanks for bringing up the already often mentioned so-called “fact” that HEY WOMEN ARE PARTIALLY TO BLAME FOR BEING RAPED IF THEY GET REALLY DRUNK. 

Second of all, we were talking about RAPE CULTURE. It is really fucking creepy that the idea of DRUNK WOMEN is designed to LURE MEN to a location. Even if none of the women got plastered, the whole idea of having women drink for free so that it can be advertised for the sole reason of enticing men to come to your venue is fucked up.

And sorry, my blood alcohol content does not force anyone to become a rapist.

We weren’t even talking about blame! But thank you Mr. Genuinely Nice Guy for bringing it up and saying that women are partially to blame if they are harmed after getting drunk. We don’t hear it often enough.

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blacksheep-runner:

Vote for congress to implement teaching consent in the classroom

They never send me emails, takes 2 seconds to sign up.

it’s sad you have to make a law to teach basic human decency

thatneedstogo:

29 Glorious Takedowns of #SafetyTipsForLadies - Buzzfeed

themindislimitless:

tw: abuse, rape, domestic violence

feministblackboard:

A few weeks ago my mom stapled pages of a story in one of her women’s magazines together and handed it to me. She gave it to me pretty much with the tag lines “for your feminist blog” and “something new to consider.” Indeed it was; she knows me well.

The story is titled “I was forced to be pregnant.” With a title like that, reading it was actually not on the top of my to read list. I thought it was about women not exercising their right to choice. I was very, very wrong on that one.

Have you ever heard of Reproductive coercion? It is a term that was quite recently coined by the advocates against domestic violence to describe a certain type of abuse some women face. It occurs when a man pressures their partner to have kids and/or impregnates them against their will. Reproductive coercion comes in three different types:
1. Emotional pressure that turns into verbal and physical abuse.
2. Sabotaging birth control
3. Marital rape
Over 75% of women 19-49 who reported once experiencing domestic violence also endured some type of reproductive control by men. It’s all about control and domination over a woman’s body.

The first story in the magazine is about a woman who got married around 36 years of age. After a few months of dating her boyfriend talked excitedly about having children. After he proposed he began calling her “The Babymaker.” She then confided with him that one of her fallopian tubes was blocked. He in return insisted she see a fertility doctor. She recounts, “I had finally met a great guy who was eager to start a family with me. What woman wouldn’t fall for that?” Soon after her honeymoon he persisted on in an obsessive manner, but his efforts had to be temporarily halted as she had to get emergency back surgery. Alas, 6 months into recovery he was back to pressuring her again. She was in much pain at the time due to her back, but she agreed to In Vitro Fertilization. She then became pregnant, but soon miscarried. In response, her husband grabbed her by the neck, choking her. He apologized, blaming his outburst on his grief and had her sign up for another round of IVF. And then a third round. She tried to put him off with the excuse that she needed to weigh more before she could take treatments, her husband forced her to get on the scale often and filled the fridge with fattening foods. “It hurt that all I was good for was getting pregnant.” She recounts. At the end, he screamed at her, threatening to replace her with a maid if she couldn’t get pregnant and she told him she no longer wanted to have his child. He destroyed bedroom furniture, pushed her down the stairs and threatened her with a gun. She fled to a domestic violence shelter.

The second story was about a woman who faced marital rape. This woman was 40, had a then boyfriend and two children from a previous marriage. After telling her boyfriend she did not want any more children, her boyfriend refused to wear a condom and began to rape her.  She then became pregnant with her third child. Birth control was never an option for her because she couldn’t hide pills anywhere for he went through all of her belongings. Three months after giving birth, he raped her again, impregnating her with twins. She lost the twins in a physical fight with him, but soon became pregnant again. During her recovery she begged her obstetrician to remove her ovaries and devise a lie to tell him; that she had cancer. After a decade of sexual abuse and violence she was able to get a job that kept her out of the house and often times traveling.

One in four callers to the National Domestic Abuse hotline said that their partners had tried to force them to become pregnant. Why? As one woman stated, “Its like he wants to own me from the inside out.”  Having a baby is the perfect tie that binds. These type of abusers want to create a circumstance in which their partner is dependent on him.

WHAT’S THAT HAVE TO DO WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD?

Many voters never consider how defunding these clinics could hurt victims of domestic violence who turn to them for counseling as well as pregnancy prevention. Abused women will turn to health care providers long before they will turn to domestic abuse hotlines and organizations. Many women in abusive relationships rely on life saving, affordable care programs such as Title X. It is critical that such places are open and operation when women and children need them so desperately.

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justplainsomething:

alloysius-g:

Why I Need Feminism

I’ve gotten into so many arguments about feminism and why it’s relevant lately both on and off the internet I decided to make one of these. 

That’s me. The pic on the left is what I look like. That’s what I wear to work, going out, everywhere. 

On the right is what I would want to wear going out and hell even going for a coffee with my friends. I never do, though, because I’m afraid.

I’m afraid of the panic attack I have everytime a guy I don’t know touches me. Even if it’s on the arm and not threatening at all I feel so uncomfortable by unwanted physical attention I get physically ill.

I’m afraid that what happened when I once did go out in that dress might happen again: getting eye drops in my pint.

What angers me the most is when girls say they’re not feminists or that they don’t need feminism. WE ALL NEED IT. We all need a world where a girl can wear whatever she wants and 

a) not get judged for wearing it and

b) doesn’t have to be afraid

It’s a joke in my circle of friends that I look like a 14-year-old boy. I don’t mind the joke, because it’s accurate and kind of funny to me. After reading up on feminism and all that on tumblr and following discussions and THINKING about thins stuff I realised why I feel more comfortable like that.

It’s because in the world I live in, it’s safer to be a 14-year-old boy than a 28-year-old woman.

It’s because in the world I live in, it’s safer to be a 14-year-old boy than a 28-year-old woman.

strawberrycum:

eeveelutionism:

“rape jokes are funny, stop being so over sensitive”

or “if we can’t joke about rape why is everything else okay”

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callingoutbigotry:

angiewarhol:

WHAT THE FUCK

I just NOPEd the most forceful nope of my life

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onthewing:

[tw: cissexism, sexual harassment, implied rape]

You wanna be Peter Pan. 
You wanna be that fairy-dusted disaster that conquers Hook and slays pirates because that’s what strong boys do. 
But they gave you a dress, and a name to match, and a lot of pink stuff you’d never play with. 

You loved action figures just as much as dolls (yeah, you love dolls, don’t lie). 

You don’t walk like a lady though. 

You flunked ballet class. 

“You can’t go, it’s boys only.” 
“Don’t wear swimming trunks, wear a bathing suit.”
“You’re too old to be a tomboy! GROW UP.”

You can’t fly. You never will. 

Even days when you’re wearing the perfect clothes 
people will stare and say, “Is that a girl or a boy?” 
And you smile to yourself because today, 
maybe you might just pass, 
but then you see their eyes register no facial hair, 
no knot in your throat, no bulge in your pants, they say it again.

Louder.

Tauntingly.

“IS THAT A GIRL OR A BOY?” 

This time they know and they just wanna see you squirm 
and you do and they snicker and give you that look that says, “You aren’t human here.” 

You’re stuck with the body you’ve got and the gender you don’t 
There’s no fairy dust 
No flying away 
No childhood dreams 
So you’re doing the best you can. 

You rock your indecisive parts proudly, 
but there are days when you can be shattered by a quick tongue.
Days when men argue about the lines of your body, and then one says, “It’s got tits.” 

IT 

because you’re not worthy of any other title. 

Days when girls will hate you for what you are 
whatever you are 
you aren’t human here. 
But I’ve got tits.

So on that day when he said to me, 
“I don’t care if you’re gay, I’d still fuck the shit out of you,” 
I should’ve been willing, right? 

But I wasn’t. 

So I walked faster trying to escape his leering face, 
the look of malice in his eyes that I’ve seen in so many other men 
“I’ll fuck you straight, girl.” 

I don’t know how much of a girl 
I am but at that moment I wished I had the knuckle strength of men. 

But I don’t, so I left my pride in this throat, 
I would try to glue myself back together for tomorrow 
because there are always gonna be days like this. 

Days when you have to carry your somber heart like a coffin, 
days when you pass until you slip and let your words fall from your mouth carried by a feminine voice and they know again. 

Know that you’re not a him, or a her, but something in between, not human to them. 

What an abomination. What a monster. 

Why can’t you be normal with your dress, your boyfriend, your virginity? 
They wanna paint you the color of smashed hymens. 
They want you to know that naked, you will always be soft like a woman; 
naked, you will always have the parts of a woman, 
you, IT, your telltale breasts 
you will NEVER be one of those strong boys. 
you are far from Peter Pan but learn to hold your back like a flagpole, 
it’s all you’ve got out there. 
there’s no Neverland.

poetry makes me cry

Twilight: Eclipse p. 331 (Bella and Jacob’s first kiss)

This is rape culture.

Young women are taught to think of this passage - which describes sexual assault - as erotic. Young men are taught to force their will on young women, regardless of any (non)verbal cues, because sex is conquest and women are objects - not something to be done between two consenting individuals because it’s pleasurable for both people.

The most frightening thing about this excerpt is that many survivors of sexual assault who have disclosed to me describe stories that sound exactly like this one.

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tumblr user clockward submitted this to us. read at your leisure.

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Vomiting everywhere

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The lines before that:

    He still had my chin—his fingers holding too tight, till it hurt—and I saw the resolve form abruptly in his eyes.
    “N—-” I started to object, but it was too late.

And after he assaulted her she punched him in the face but due to his “super human strength” she broke her hand, said “Don’t touche me!” and then:

    “Just let me drive you home,” Jacob insisted. Unbelievably, he had the nerve to wrap his arm around my waist.

    I jerked away from him.

And then:

    When he got in the driver’s side, he was whistling.

AND THEN while he was driving:

    “…There is so much I can give you that he can’t. I’ll bet he couldn’t even kiss you like that—-because he would hurt you. I would never, never hurt you, Bella.”

    I held up my injured hand.

    He sighed. “That wasn’t my fault. You should have known better.”

And then:

    He grinned over at me. “You kissed me back.”

    I gasped, unthinkingly balling my hands up into fists again, hissing when my broken hand reacted.

    “Are you okay?” he asked. 

     “I did not.”

    “I think I can tell the difference.”

    “Obviously you can’t——that was not kissing back, that was trying to get you the hell off me, you idiot.”

    He laughed a low, throaty laugh. “Touchy. Almost overly defensive, I would say.

    I took a deep breath. There was no point in arguing with him; he would twist anything I said.

Then when she gets home, to where her father, Charlie, the police officer, is:

    “Why did she hit you?”

    “Because I kissed her,” Jacob said, unashamed.

    “Good for you, kid,” Charlie congratulated him.

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I didn’t read the citation first. I read the quote. I thought I was reading a woman’s account of how she was about to be raped, not a fucking passage from a romance novel. 

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holy

fucking

SIHT

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wickedclothes:

geometricdeathtrap:

ihatepeacocks:

The City of Steubenville, Ohio was covering up for its Star High School Football Stars who drugged and raped a 16 year old Girl. Then Anonymous stepped in….

Read Here

End Rape and DO NOT TOLERATE RAPE ENABLERS

GO SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE RAPISTS TRIED IN REAL COURT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL SLAP ALL OF YOU WITH A DEAD FISH

Sign the petition. Voice your outrage.

timeofthedecade:

bigdaddyg-wil:

this guy pulled out his dick in front of like 5 billion feminist protestors holy shit

Some context for the idiots claiming the women are overreacting:

This occurred at a Slut Walk. For those not familiar with it, the Slut Walk is basically a peaceful protest seeking to eliminate the rape apologism so prevalent in society. The basis is that no woman is “asking for it,” with “it” being rape. It’s not a feminist protest; it’s a human rights protest.

Many of the protesters, as you can probably imagine, have dealt with sexual harassment or rape in their own lives. Many of them have structured their daily activities to avoid being raped. The gathering is supposed to be a place for them to feel empowered and able to recover in the company of those who understand what they’ve been through or who will not blame them.

Nobody at a Slut Walk will tell a survivor that it’s her fault. They will not ask what she was wearing to provoke her attacker. Nobody will say she had too much to drink. Nobody will tell the men in the group that they are inherently rapists themselves, and nobody will tell a male survivor that his experience “wasn’t really rape.”

Then, this fellow comes along. He sees this gathering of survivors and their supporters, and to him, it’s a joke. He sees feminazis. He sees girls who are taking “a bit of fun” too seriously. And what does he do? He exposes himself to this group of survivors and supporters - some of whom are, in fact, underage.

He sexually harasses literally hundreds of women in one act. Aside from public indecency, there was cruel intent in his actions. He wanted to make them uncomfortable. He wanted to “put them in their place.” Other photos from this event show him flipping the protesters off and laughing at their anger.

And there are still people defending his actions. There are those who still feel like these women were asking for it and that they deserved to be harassed for trying to claim they weren’t. There are those who feel that women should be taught a lesson this way, and they applaud this man’s actions.

So no, he didn’t pull out his dick in front of feminist protesters. He harassed dozens - if not hundreds - of rape survivors. The reaction to his actions alone outline the purpose of the Slut Walk.

For those of you still doubting whether what he did was wrong (and I do wonder if there’s something wrong with you, if you have doubts), let me give you an analogous situation. Imagine a gathering of black civil rights activists. Imagine Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and all their colleagues gathered together to demonstrate that being black did not make them lesser people. That being black and living in the South did not mean they were “asking” to be the target of hate crimes.

And at this gathering, a white man decides he should teach them a lesson by pointedly hanging a noose from the nearest tree and laughing at their anger. And other white men, laughing along with him, commend him for taking these activists down a peg.

That’s what happened here. It’s not an “OMG, I can’t believe he did that!” moment. It’s an “OMG, there are people who think this is okay” moment. And the fact is, it’s not. It never will be. And that’s the take home message of this ridiculous rant I’ve written up.

barbieprivilege:

olivia benson serving up realness

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