Toss it Out the Airlock
My name is Adriana; I'm a recent Emerson College graduate still looking for where I'm meant to be in this world. I have many passions: family, writing, working with New Hampshire Teen Institute, working for equality.
Things you will find on this blog: politics, prose, poetry, LGBT items, everything from Disney to sports. I don't have too much of a theme going, just what makes me happy or moves me.
Just saw this and it broke my heart— signal boost for this lady! I’ve seen this kinda stuff get spread majorly so I thought this might be able to help this lady. If you find her phone here’s the link to the craigslist ad!
The grim reality of this situation is even more heart shredding.
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Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
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Thank you, because I didn’t really think about that side of the argument. I agreed and understood her decision, but I’d never thought about why people would be agains that. The argument at the bottom from the guy is…like….indefensible.
And even beyond all this, can we please please please stop criticizing women for the choices they make regarding their own bodies, regardless of context? Not only is it deplorable that people are criticizing people who make this likely life-saving decision, but who the eff are you to think you have a say in any woman’s boobs and what she does with them in any circumstance?
Excellent.
You can practically hear the “shiiiiiiiing” as Ruby sidles right in there as soon as Gold is gone through the portal.
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“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)
Sources:
- College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]
- Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]
By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:
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Knowledge is a seed; sow it.
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Ok, this is the funniest thing in the history of ever. Specially because their expressions match the conversation they’re having perfectly.
This is what I heard. Did this not happen word for word like this?
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Hello Queen of Genovia
I’ll reblog it every time I see in my dash. EVERY. TIME.
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Regina fuck, no magic Mills
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If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
When people scoff at the message that we need to teach people not to rape they make the assumption that the lesson goes: “Rape is bad. Don’t do it.” That is not what the lesson looks like. The lesson, once it is adopted, will be that every single person out there, regardless of any defining personal characteristics, is a human being of value, and with a right to make their own decisions about what bodily contact to have with others. There is nothing a person can do that makes them less deserving of that right. Violating any person’s right to control the when, what and who with of their sexual interactions is wrong. Do it and you will be punished, and you will deserve it.
N.B. While not all those who are raped are women, and not all rapists are men, much less rape apologists; rape prevention myths are always targeted at women, and this post reflects this. My language in the final paragraph is very consciously gender-neutral.
Reblogged this before, but I just love the sentiment and this movie.
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