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The Wretched of the Earth: [TW: rape] On Rape Culture (via petrichour)
rape culture is when the only way to get men to understand what the threat of rape is like is to compare women’s bodies to men’s possessions
Asked seasidehare
Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. I definitely apologize for any instances where I have failed to add one appropriately and I will add a warning to to the aforementioned post.
Thank you again and again I apologize to anyone else that this may have triggered.
Prepare To Fall In Love With Anne Hathaway, Whether Or Not You Like Her Singing: Whatever your feelings are on Anne Hathaway’s career, you have to admit she’s always used her celebrity power to help make the world a better place.
That’s why, on Feb. 14, 2013, she’s joining a billion other women as part of the One Billion Rising campaign to demand an end to violence against women. Join the revolution here.
Too late, already love her..
I’m not a misandrist, but if a man goes to a club in tight jeans or a shirt that leaves his pecs hanging out, it’s his fault if he gets molested. Women have uncontrollable urges. I mean, if the guy dresses like that, he’s just asking for it.
(TW: RAPE, DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF RAPE)
don’t let the title throw you off, it is a great read, a not what I was expecting at all
Must read this article all the way through. Soraya Chemaly has some excellent points on rape.
I, like many others, am only now learning of the horrific crime(s) in Steubinville, Ohio.
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“In August of 2012, a 16 year old girl incurred the wrath of her ex-boyfriend and he initiated a revenge that resulted in her being unconscious, dragged from party to party, and being stripped, subject to rape, forced oral copulation, sodomy and being urinated on by multiple people. A 12 minute video was recorded and posted via social media. The police have since “lost” this video. (Please note that this pathetic excuse for a man now attends Ohio State University on a scholarship.)
During this assault, witnesses made light of the incident and posted pictures to instagram, and joked, along with “play by play” accounts on twitter. One such example was “No one sleeps through a wang in the butt.” A small number of tweets have been preserved in various news articles, but there were a great deal more than is currently being shown.
The girl who originally tried to preserve the evidence in screenshots has been sued for defamation and her posted evidence has since been taken down. Three others are also being sued for defamation.
Recently, there was a hearing for two teen athletes, where they are being held, without bail, for rape, though the kidnapping charges have been dropped. Overwhelming community support showed up, including school officials, were in the courtroom FOR THE RAPISTS. This is where it gets bad.
The coach, the volunteer coach, and many people in the community are blaming gang rape of an unconscious girl on the girl, herself. No one is coming forward to help law enforcement. The local prosecutor’s son is on the football team.
This is not an isolated incident. More girls have come forward, including a 14 year old girl. Even worse, one of the official’s email accounts has a number of pictures of young girls in various compromising positions, demonstrating that this has happened many times before and is accepted within this community.
Worse, the people who did this have been referring to themselves as “RAPE CREW.”
There are multiple conflicts of interest in their local justice system and they have paid out a number of settlements for police misconduct. Corruption is rampant as a result of these conflicts of interest, and many people in local government, along with school officials have been making a concerted effort to cover this up.” (distonanced)
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
I’ve been watching interviews and reports on the rapes occurring in New Delhi with disgust, and now I find that a town in the United States has the SAME mindset - that it was the woman’s fault - that the men shouldn’t be dishonored or punished for what they have done…
And…
I just quit. I am sickened.
If you want more in-depth information, please visit:
http://localleaks.blogs.ru/2013/01/01/steubenvillefiles/
Facts posted have been cross checked by anonymous locals.
SIGN THE PETITION to have everyone involved by processed by juvenile court so real justice can be had:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-all-involved-rape-steubenville-scandal-be-pushed-out-juvenile-court-so-there-can-be-real/MJ4rrCXMThis needs more damn notes.
I know we’ve been having a good time on the dash, but I NEED like everyone to boost the hell out of this, please?
I really don’t understand why more people aren’t angry about this. This is a working link: sign petition
SIGNAL BOOSTING AGAIN. THE WORKING LINK TO THE PETITION HAS BEEN ADDED. SIGN IT. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A US CITIZEN, JUST LEAVE THE ZIP CODE BLANK.
Imma leave the room before I punch a hole through the computer screen.
I read the whole anon file on this case (and it was truly sickening) but this is the first time I’ve seen this petition going around. I’m definitely signing it and simply raising awareness of this absolutely disgusting and heinous case!
i didn’t even finish the article before i felt sick to my stomach.
Welp, maybe I don’t need breakfast anymore. Jesus fuck.
This site http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/04/anonymous_ohio_rape_case/
also provides the same video and a photograph of the girl being dragged off by her hands and ankles (her face is blurred, the rapists are not) as well as some interesting insight to the case that is going on.
It is absolutely disgusting.
I hope by some divine intervention they all go to jail for a really really long time.
The discussion about fat people and rape NEVER HAPPENS ENOUGH. We’re getting raped all over the place because we’re ‘easy targets’ and then told we should be thankful??? I have not once, EVER seen a thin person mention this, even when talking about the intersectional nature of rape occurrence.
I thought my rapist loved me because he was willing to have sex with me. The mental disconnect astounds me when I look back on that night 12 years ago. I said no several and he kept on going. I just laid there. He hurt me, I bled, he yelled at me for bleeding. It was the first day I had known him. I started dating him and he was sexually and verbally abusive the whole time. It took a long time before I would even talk about it.
When my therapist said, “So, he raped you.” The statement shocked me. I didn’t want to believe that I could be raped. I just thought to myself, “Who would rape a fat girl.”
This is just one more reason why I’m all for teaching people of all shapes and sizes that it is okay to love yourself and you are not subhuman because of the way you look and you never EVER deserve to be abused, raped, or mistreated and you sure as hell should NEVER count yourself as thankful for being raped.
I remember being younger and my friends havng the conversation about what they do to protect themselves from rape (carry keys etc.) and thinking “at least I don’t have to protect myself from rape because I no-one would want me”, not realising that the guy I was with was an abusive rapist who took advantage of my insecurities.
This is why I get so angry about “SJ” on Tumblr not caring about FA. I see y’all discussing the subtleties of power differentiation, and the complexities of intersectionality and lived experiences, and I see fat people erased EVERY GODDAMN TIME. It’s like the fat experience is so irrelevant there’s no point in mentioning it. Either that or your brain isn’t registering it as a real oppression.
We’re dying around you because doctors can’t be bothered to treat us, and we’re being raped and told to say thank you. Where the fuck are you thin people?
I know I posted this earlier, but I’m reblogging it again for the epic commentary. The intersection of fat stigma and rape culture is something I first remember being discussed when #thingsfatpeoplearetold was trending, but I haven’t heard it mentioned since. I actually don’t really have anything important to add right now because…yeah, well…the fact that people say and think stuff like this makes me genuinely quite distressed. I guess I just want to put this issue on the table for discussion…
Echoing the above statement, my heart aches.