[TW: rape culture, victim blaming]
My boyfriend sent this to me a few minutes ago. I imagine he thought I’d find it funny, and in a very small way, I do — but only because of how sad this whole scenario is.
Emma Watson is one of the unfortunate women in the media who has been victimized by paparazzi taking and selling pictures of her in a compromised situation, much like what happened to Anne Hathaway not too long ago. Having those pictures available to the public, who can then use them to humiliate her like this asshole, is absolutely horrific and one of the least funny things about our society.
Emma, I’m not a huge fan of your work, but I’m a fan of you as a person and as a woman, and I’m a huge fan of your reaction to this guy trying to get the better of you.
This is sexual harassment.
No it is not, she knew paparazzi was going to be there, she knew she didn’t have underwear on, it is her fault for not covering up or wearing panties. She has to live with her choice and consequences.
Stop being stupid.
No. Watson’s underclothes aren’t our business. She didn’t consent to that picture being taken. She is not responsible for the actions of an entitled, shitty man.
A paparazzi made the decision to take this picture. He then made the decision to sell this picture/make it public.
And then this motherfucking asshole decided to print it off and bring it to Watson to humiliate her.
All because sexist assholes think they can pull this sort of bullshit on women and get away with it. And they do get away with it, because other sexist assholes like you shift responsibility to the victim.
Stop being stupid.
I would’ve punched this fucker in the face. (I’m reblogging as text because I think the image should be edited. It really isn’t okay to continue circulating a picture she didn’t consent to. If I knew how to edit the picture uploaded then I’d blur out the part of the image and reblog that way.)
(You’re totally right and I’m sorry I helped circulate that image. I’m deleting the previous reblogs and are-adding the image, now edited)
[TW: RAPE] An Account of Sexual Assault at Amherst College
The room stopped spinning, the walls went back to their normal locations, I could breathe again, and now I was angry. I told her flat out: Let me get this straight. I was raped on their campus. I had an emotional breakdown because I didn’t feel safe and felt harassed on their campus. I went to their counseling center, like they told me to, and I told them how I was feeling. They decided that I should be sent to the hospital. And now they won’t allow me back on their campus? They allow rapists back on campus, but they won’t allow the girl who was raped back? The girl who did nothing wrong.
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I eventually reported my rapist.
He graduated with honors.
I will not graduate from Amherst.
The stories and statistics are miles long in regards to sexual assault on campus. My story is far from unique, and, compared to some of the stories I have heard, is tame.
The more that I learn about Amherst’s policy toward sexual assault and survivors in general, the more relief I feel in deciding to transfer. How could I stay at a school who had made my healing process not just difficult, but impossible? How could I stand knowing that the Administration promotes silence? How could I spend the next two years made to feel dirty and at fault?I could not.
Don’t imagine that Amherst is unique. Colleges and universities all across the US treat survivors just like this. Angie Epifano is incredibly brave for speaking up like this.
(Source: seriouslyamerica)
(TW: Rape, Victim Blaming) 9 Lies Republicans Tell About Women's Bodies
ARE THEY SERIOUS?
Here is just some of the shit that made me exclaim aloud ‘ARE YOU SERIOUS??’
‘“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this,” said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”
The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.
The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.’
(Source: iwillnotbebullied)
New Left Project: Rape and the Occupy Movement
This is pretty obvious feminism 101 stuff, but it’s a good argument: you can’t claim to represent the 99% and then take away part of the 99%’s voice and right to human dignity and safety.
trigger warning for rape, rape culture, victim blaming.
(via fromonesurvivortoanother)
Patriarchy and victim-blaming: In a nutshell.
When I was walking around town yesterday afternoon, I watched a student cross the road about 100 yards away from the lights and found myself thinking “really, you can’t just take care of yourself and cross where you’re supposed to and not put yourself in danger? If you get hit now, you’ll probably be blamed, and that makes sense.”
And why?
Because we all accept that on the roads, cars have right of way over pedestrians. It is their understood right to drive right the hell on, and if you get in their way then you’ve knowingly put yourself in harm’s way.
Because we all knowingly accept that cars are all powerful on the roads.
So essentially, what you’re doing when you say “she should’ve known what she was getting herself in for when she wore that tight skirt, that’s just asking for trouble” is that men own the outside. Men are all powerful out-of-doors (and maybe inside, too, but I don’t have the strength to make that argument), so if you stumble onto their path, you’re putting yourself in danger because they have right of way.
This is what patriarchy means, in practice. This is why I can’t accept that you have any logical reasoning powers at work when you say that patriarchy is dead.
Follow your heart, follow your truth: TW: Rape culture
dandylionn replied to your post: lonelystreet0fdreams reblogged your post:…
Well, take into account she said she was abstinent and then mentioned how surprised she was the she’d gotten pregnant because she was on birth control. Why would you be on birth…uh, considered 1/4 women in the u.s get raped, i’d say that being on birth control for that ALONE is a reason to.
but great its nice to know that if i go on birth control to prevent getting pregnant if I’m 1/4 women who gets raped in america it means its consensuakwe aren’t allowed to protect ourselves at ALL, are we?
NOT that Bristol Palin should need anyone else to defend her… But seeing as we live in a RAPE CULTURE where rape is the only crime where the VICTIM has to prove their innocence, let me give you some examples of reasons a non-sexually active uterus-bearer might be on BC:
- You never have a regular period. Sounds awesome, right? you get to skip your “time of the month,” sometimes for months at a time? No. It’s extra heavy, and extra painful when it does come, and always shows up unexpectedly when you least want it (like when you are graduating and have to wear a WHITE dress).
- You have long, heavy periods with terrible cramps - BC can alleviate these symptoms.
- You have terrible acne. My post-menopausal LESBIAN mother has been on the pill for 25 years because without it she has painful breakouts more or less constantly.
- You might have endometriosis. Look it up; it fucking sucks.
- Maybe you have poly-cystic ovarian syndrome. Likewise, it sucks.
The rape-apologism and victim blaming surrounding this story is disgusting. I don’t care how you feel about Bristol’s mother (we all know I’m her biggest fan /sarcasm), a rape victim deserves to be listened to.
(Source: confusedtree)
