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Most people who make rape jokes (or gay jokes, or racist jokes, or whatever) aren’t smart enough to have anything worthwhile to add to the conversation. They’re hacks. It’s like a little kid shouting “poop!” in the grocery store and then grinning. Truly edgy writing pushes people out of their comfort zones, sure. But it pushes them toward something, some deeper truth or observation about humanity.
Why Is Guante So Angry?: 3 Points About Rape Jokes that People Seem to Be Ignoring
I would also add that we should treat them exactly as we treat the little kid in the grocery store - with withering condescension, or outright silent disdain.
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Link reblogged from TRUTH IS FRICTION
Last week, Paul Ryan gave an interview in which, defending his position that there should be no excuses for abortion, he referred to rape as a “method of conception.”
Wow, right? Talk about a benign euphemism. Rape —RAPE! — is now a “method of conception.” You know, like love-making, just without the love.
There could be no greater testament to the utter abdication of responsibility by what passes for a “news” media in America in 2012 than that, despite the grotesquerie of this cavalierly callous comment, chances are better than good that this is the first you’re hearing of it.
Here, watch it — and try to figure out why this has gotten NO MAINSTREAM MEDIA play (not even here at the Huffington Post) despite it being, to my mind, a far more offensive remark than Todd Akin’s imbecilic blurt of last weekend. What, are we tired of stupid remarks about rape now, so Ryan gets a free pass?
Given the demands for Akin’s resignation from a mere Senate race when his musings on “legitimate rape” were publicized, what do you imagine the reaction would be if people were as familiar with VP wannabe Ryan’s stunning statement? Might there be a cacophony of outrage? Might there be calls for his resignation from the ticket? Might there be a focus on how fundamentally oblivious these people who would make our laws are to not just women’s but humans’ rights and dignity? Sure, there might, but then of course people would have to have heard about it.
According to the man who would be the proverbial heartbeat away from the White House, and who in any event would — given Romney’s utter hollowness — have an inordinate influence on the judicial appointments that will determine how much freedom our children get to live under, RAPE = “METHOD OF CONCEPTION.” And yet, unless you’re a frequenter of one of a dozen or so lefty blogs — or my friend on Facebook — you probably knew nothing about it.
I truly despair for the country my 14-year-old daughter is inheriting. That a remark this intensely revealing of the danger posed by this ticket can go basically unreported is as nauseating to me as the quote itself.
YOU awesome readers heard about, because I love you enough to keep you in the loop. I don’t know what the rest of the media is doing with their time.
this deserves ten million notes.
holY SHIT
What a fuckhead
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Post reblogged from STFU, Sexists.
“A survey of 11-to-14 year-olds found: ·
- 51% of the boys and 41% of the girls said forced sex was acceptable if the boy, “spent a lot of money” on the girl;
- 31% of the boys and 32% of the girls said it was acceptable for a man to rape a woman with past sexual experience;
- 87% of boys and 79% of girls said sexual assault was acceptable if the man and the woman were married;
- 65% of the boys and 47% of the girls said it was acceptable for a boy to rape a girl if they had been dating for more than six months.”
Societal Attitudes Supporting Rape (via searchingforavila)
This is fucking scary, and it shows that we do live in a “rape culture” in which abusers and rapists have little idea that they are doing something wrong. My abuser didn’t….
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In which we despair for the universe…
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There are so many of these horrible survey results, and everyone should know them and then tell me there’s no such thing as misogyny and rape culture.
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These stats need to be reblogged all the fucking time because SHIT
What the fuck.
AND THEY WONDER WHY I NEED FEMINISM.
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Quote reblogged from Autism and "Fuck Your Shit"[TW: rape] In 30 years observations, Jane Goodall never saw one rape among the chimpanzees, our closest primate cousins. Though it’s not possible to draw firm conclusions about human behaviour from animals, Goodall’s findings, and many other recent studies, get us questioning the old myths we have about rape. One of the most persistent myths about rape is that male biology and primitive male sex urges drive men to rape. But current information indicates that rape is more a learned act of sexual violence that comes out of social beliefs that men have a right to dominate and control women. The fact that rape is learned means that we can work to change the underlying beliefs and eliminate rape from our communities.
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Photo reblogged from Autism and "Fuck Your Shit"
Republicans are idiots, there I said it.
D - …and in other news, water is wet, the sun is hot, and drinking cold drinks too fast will give you a headache.
JP - A quick aside to all the Republicans who took offense at the previous statement: These are statements made by the people representing your party. By not speaking out against this kind of shit, you are consenting to it. By not calling out this “legitimate rape” and medieval faux-biology bullshit, you are agreeing with it, and you believe that the female body can shut down a pregnancy if she’s been “legitimately” raped.
Ergo, you are an idiot.
That proven, the question then becomes, “What do you do?”
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Photo reblogged from This is a Gift; it Comes With a Price
(TW: rape, victim blaming)
gettintiredofyourshitmasterwayne:
I can’t believe some people are so twisted that they think this way.
This is from prolife4eva
Blurred out the asker because I’m not going to post the URL of a person who says she was sexually assaulted. If you feel so inclined, you can go to the blog and find it yourself.
i’m going to throw up
This is such bullshit
so when did “being in the same room as a person willingly” become the legal definition of consent again
SO any time I have been in a room with someone, they’ve had the “right” to rape me?
That’s disgusting.
(Source: willyoufuckmebackhome)
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Quote reblogged from This is a Gift; it Comes With a Price[TW: rape] Such overblown rhetoric disguises the operation of a double standard in contemporary society. On the one hand, the consumption of alcohol is viewed as making women MORE responsible for their own rape: by choosing to get drunk, women are deliberately increasing their risk and should be prepared to face the consequences. On the other hand, male consumption of alcohol is viewed as making them LESS responsible for their actions; by choosing to get drunk, men increase the chance of inappropriate behaviour and should not therefore be required to pay the price for their actions.Joanna Bourke, “Rape: Sex Violence History” (via lavenderlabia)
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Post reblogged from This is a Gift; it Comes With a Price
I really don’t give a shit about the futures of rapists or how much THEIR lives will be changed by their identities being known.
I care about the rape survivors and if you don’t then I’m sorry you have some really fucked priorities.
Like, i care about them like I care about all people— they deserve shelter and food and such. But I’m more worried about the rape victim.
Rape is worse than murder because when you rape, you kill someone and then force that person to go on living.
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Quote reblogged from This is a Gift; it Comes With a PriceWe live in a country where a videotaped gang rape can result in a hung jury, where jokes about raping a woman are still considered hilarious, and where the seriousness of sexual assault is so minimized that writing a research paper on rape is actually considered a reasonable punishment for attackers.
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Photo reblogged from This is a Gift; it Comes With a Price
The voices of rape culture.
Tying in with my post on this of yesterday.
