Rape Culture |
I'm trying to develop a safe place for questioning and understanding domestic violence and rape culture. As well as tools for creating women's empowerment. |
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if breasts, butts and legs are so distracting to men, to the point they cant function
why arent they that distracting to lesbians
and at that point
why isnt the penis bulge and legs not distracting enough to gay men to warrant men being put under the same dress codes
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this.
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Notes"When most Americans think about “rape culture,” they may think about the Steubenville boys’ defense arguing that an unconscious girl consented to her sexual assault because she “didn’t say no,” the school administrators who choose to protect their star athletes over those boys’ rape victims, or the bullying that led multiple victims of sexual assault to take their own lives. While those incidences of victim-blaming are certainly symptoms of a deeply-rooted rape culture in this country, they’re not the only examples of this dynamic at play. Rape culture is also evident in the attitudes that lead school administrators to treat young girls’ bodies as inherently “distracting” to the boys who simply can’t control themselves. That approach to gender roles simply encourages our youth to assume that sexual crimes must have something to do with women’s “suggestive” clothes or behavior, rather than teaching them that every individual is responsible for respecting others’ bodily autonomy."How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country by Annie-Rose Strasser and Tara Culp-Ressler, thinkprogress.org (via mollyisnotadogsname)
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Notes“boys aren’t going to respect you if you lose your virginity at such a young age”
“she had it coming to her because she drank so much and she led him on all night.”
“If you press charges on him think about how you’re going to ruin his whole future.”
“Boys will be boys, you can’t blame him for doing it, it’s just what they do.”
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(Source: uofcwhoneedsfeminism)
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don’t let them silence you <3 theuselesschick
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This is what my final website ended up looking like for my university project on sex and consent. I still feel a bit uncomfortable being a kind of authoritative voice on such a serious matter and I think that if such a website were to be put together it ought to be done by a team of people, not just one gal telling teens ‘this is how you should or shouldn’t have sex’. Still, I was pleased with the idea!
That link again is readthesigns.net
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Notes Obama: 'No tolerance' for military sexual assaultPresident Barack Obama said Tuesday that he has no tolerance for sexual assault in the military, comments made in the wake of a new Pentagon report showing the instances of such crimes have spiked since 2010. The president said he had spoken today with Defens &While the numbers and especially what happened are beyond disgusting, this really is bringing the problem to the forefront. Skip to 5:10 in the video.
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Notes"Talking nonsense to a young woman in a police car is not a crime."Lawyer Susan Hughes representative for constable Hayden Clifford Bradley, 30, who suggested to a female disqualified driver he would let her off in return for “R18” favours. “A jury has found a Whanganui policeman not guilty of corruption for allegedly asking for sexual favours in return for letting a woman off driving charges.”
Apparently the fact that he has embarrassed himself and let down his family is enough of a punishment for corruption and sexual harassment.
#RapeCulture is when the police and people in positions of power are allowed to ask you for sexual favours in exchange for letting you off charges.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8639089/Jury-return-verdict-in-cops-sex-for-favour-case
(via takealookatyourlife)
