![tigersmilk:
[TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE, RACISM, REPRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE]
sexxxisbeautiful:
hickies-n-hotpants:
dichotomydestroyingparty:
nbcnews:
Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.
Riddick was never told what was happening. “Got to the hospital and they put me in a room and that’s all I remember, that’s all I remember,” she said. “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.”
Her records reveal that a five-person state eugenics board in Raleigh had approved a recommendation that she be sterilized. North Carolina was one of 31 states to have a government run eugenics program. By the 1960s, tens of thousands of Americans were sterilized as a result of these programs.
To read more about this story, click here. Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s full broadcast report, ‘State of Shame’, airs Monday, November 7, at 10pm/9c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.
holy fuck.
RAGE.
I recently started learning about the history of eugenics and the correlation between the history of birth control in America. It’s some freaky fucking shit I tell you, full of examples of the classism, racism, and ableism rampant in society. How convenient that only poor people/people of color/mentally disabled people were sterilized! /sarcasm/
P.S. If I remember correctly IQ tests were originally used to determine if someone was “feeble-minded” enough to be sterilized.
^ yep.
Why am I not surprised that I never learned about this in school?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lub0oxwVtu1qm4we9o1_1280.jpg)
Isn’t it funny that we only do it with rape?
If I was to steal a chocolate bar because it was sitting at the counter looking all tasty, it’d be theft. Nobody would say but oh, look at the creamy picture on the packaging. It was taunting him. He had no choice. It was instinct. Impulse. Drives and desires beyond his control.
If I walked into some person’s home and said I lived there, I’d be arrested. Nobody would say to the owners that they should invest in curtains so that people couldn’t see how nice their house was so easily. Nobody would tell them that they were ‘asking for it’.
And if I beat a guy up because he was a loud mouth I’d be charged. Nobody would say oh but look at him, he’s a dick. He’s got gel in his hair and he’s wearing a shirt that says “How about a nice cup of shut the fuck up”. The dude is a wanker, he got what he deserved. More importantly, even if they did say that, it wouldn’t effect my charges.
But if a woman is wearing a short skirt then it will dramatically sway people’s opinions in a rape case. Was it cut above the knee? Was your waist showing? These are serious questions that will be asked in a court case.
So true. And so Fucked up.
"I want to be alone, and I want people to notice me — both at the same time." Thom Yorke
Posts tagged rape.
![stardustprince:
[It’s not consent if you make me afraid to say no.]
pompadoursandpincurls:
Always reblog. People don’t get this shit.
Something I wish I could tell myself three years ago.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lul8r6OBSr1r6r7uro1_500.jpg)
[It’s not consent if you make me afraid to say no.]
Always reblog. People don’t get this shit.
Something I wish I could tell myself three years ago.
(via seanmacdiarmada)
[TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE, RACISM, REPRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE]
Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.
Riddick was never told what was happening. “Got to the hospital and they put me in a room and that’s all I remember, that’s all I remember,” she said. “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.”
Her records reveal that a five-person state eugenics board in Raleigh had approved a recommendation that she be sterilized. North Carolina was one of 31 states to have a government run eugenics program. By the 1960s, tens of thousands of Americans were sterilized as a result of these programs.
To read more about this story, click here. Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s full broadcast report, ‘State of Shame’, airs Monday, November 7, at 10pm/9c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.
holy fuck.
RAGE.
I recently started learning about the history of eugenics and the correlation between the history of birth control in America. It’s some freaky fucking shit I tell you, full of examples of the classism, racism, and ableism rampant in society. How convenient that only poor people/people of color/mentally disabled people were sterilized! /sarcasm/
P.S. If I remember correctly IQ tests were originally used to determine if someone was “feeble-minded” enough to be sterilized.
^ yep.
Why am I not surprised that I never learned about this in school?
(via lipstick-feminists)
Fuck Grand Valley.
Two attempted assaults occurred against two different women on my campus this week. When the first was reported, the response she got from police was “If youre lying, we’re going to sue you.” (My best friend spoke with her directly) Flabbergasted, she decided to walk away, collect her thoughts, and come back later. She is currently typing out a detailed account of what happened to her. However, Grand Valley decided to send out a mass email that she recanted her entire story (not true at all).
We just received an email saying the same thing about a second victim.
SO, you’re saying to me that two women, who don’t know each other, completely BS-ed identical accounts of attempted sexual assault? COME ON. There was only a discussion with this. No official warnings were ever sent out to students, there was no investigation, no increased patrol of a incredibly underlit bridge on campus, no talk of increasing lights so that women can feel safe.
This is absolute and utter bullshit. I am infuriated and ashamed of my school. Way to protect your own GV :/
^This.
Recently, Topshop released (and then pulled following the response in the press) a men’s T-shirt with the following slogan:
I’m so sorry, but…
You provoked me
I was drunk
I was having a bad day
I hate you
I didn’t mean it
I couldn’t help it
I honestly can’t see how anyone would think that this was funny or inappropriate. As far as I can see, all this T-shirt slogan does is trivialise, condone, or at worst even glamourise domestic violence, or violence against women. I’d be happy to hear any other possible interpretations, but I for one can’t see any. It even has little check boxes next to each ‘excuse’, so that the offender can pick and choose between them to see which one is most appropriate for that situation. On the T-shirt the checked box is next to ‘I was drunk’ - which is of course a favourite defence for a lot of things, from inappropriate behaviour to unwanted groping to, yes, even rape and domestic violence.
Being drunk isn’t an excuse for anything. It is never an excuse. Do Topshop have any idea how many messages I have got since I started this blog where I have heard a variant of ‘but he was drunk’ as a mitigating factor? It isn’t, and it needs to stop being considered one. And for me one of the worst things about this shirt is that it would have had to go through design, consultation, production, quality control, advertising… and not one person along the way seems to have called them on it. Or, if they did, they were ignored. It took the threat of bad PR and a bad public image to make them pull it. That’s not good enough.
I already had issues with Topshop because of its tiny sizes and clearly unwell models (I remember once looking vainly for a size 12 in a swarm of 6s and 8s, only to be told by a sales assistant that they don’t get many of the ‘larger sizes’ in), but this has pushed me that little bit too far.
From now onwards, I am boycotting Topshop and all of the Arcadia Group’s other stores. If any of you want to join me, and I urge you to, their fashion stores are: Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop and Wallis.
I’m not going to support any chain that even comes close to implying that domestic violence and violence against women is some kind of joke that is acceptable to put on a T-shirt.
I’ve heard the “I was drunk, I didn’t mean to _____” excuse once too often. It’s one thing if you’re drunk and you accidentally sit on your friend’s guitar because it looked like a couch. That’s a valid time to use the “drunk” excuse.
But when you tell me that being drunk made you unable to keep your hands to yourself? No. Not buying it. I’ve had people blame it on that before, and it’s bullshit. Unless being drunk make you deaf as well—I mean, how else could a person ignore the fact that I told them to stop touching me? Ohh, they were drunk? That explains it! Alright, I’ll blame the liquor instead of the person. Sounds legit to me.
The fact that a company could put out a shirt like this saddens me deeply.
RAGE.
Read on and see if you aren’t as disgusted by the sexist and slut-shaming attitudes as I am. I feel sick to my stomach right now.
I had to say something, but now I’m done…I’m not having this fucking argument on someone’s status. (For reference, our town just had a Slut-Walk.)
God, I don’t understand people sometimes.
URGHH
HIS RAINCOAT ANALOGY DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
I’m thankful for the lovely girl who shared in my frustration, at least.
Urgh…people keep replying with more bullshit. I’m obviously the stupid one here. *sarcasm*
I need to say something everytime I hear a gay, rape, or sexist joke. I’d be doing a disservice to my fellow human beings if I didn’t.
Because by letting people joke about these things, I’m part of the problem. Every sexist, rape, and gay joke is attacking me even if it isn’t directed at me. I’m a woman, I’ve been taken advantage of, and I’m bi. So why haven’t I been standing up for myself and everyone else?
I need to step it up. In my head, I’ve been making up excuses. I need to pick my battles, I’ll alienate people, I live in a conservative town, I’ll lose friends, I’ll cause a big debate, etc etc. I’m so ashamed of myself…I feel sick to my stomach for my lack of action. But, as of now, I’m acknowledging that I need to make a change and I’m going to fucking do it.
The biggest excuse for me not speaking up?
Fear.
So I’m going to stop being afraid of what other people will say. Yes, I’ll probably get insulted, offended and verbally attacked. A lot of my more close-minded friends will be put-off or just plain stop liking me. I can handle it. Being liked is not as important as standing up for what’s right.
I’m not going to sit by and let people spread their ignorance, especially when I know how painful it is to hear. I encourage you to do the same.
Because every sexist joke just perpetuates the idea that women are not equal, and that’s okay. Do you really want you female friends to think less of themselves?
And gay jokes add to the idea that being non-heterosexual is something to be ashamed of and ostracized for. LGBTQ people already get enough hate. One of your friends might be LGBTQ or questioning their sexuality—they need your support and acceptance, not your dumb homophobic jokes.
And when you joke about rape you are keeping the idea that slut-shaming is okay, our rape-culture is normal, and that it’s the victim’s fault. Plus, statistically speaking, one of your friends has been or will be sexually assaulted. We should have to teach how to not get raped, we should be teaching not to rape in the first place.
Think about your friends who, chances are, have been hurt by these jokes too.
When you joke about any of these things, you’re hurting someone. You are taking a serious, painful issue and trivializing it. You are making it okay to be ignorant.
No. Making fun of someone for who they are and what they’ve been through is not fucking okay.
This goes for every offensive joke, not just the ones I mentioned. I plan on speaking up for all people—not just the issues that trouble me personally. I’m simply speaking about these ones because I hear them the most, and they hurt me.
I’m not saying you can’t laugh about things. You can tell the difference between an actually humorous joke and an attack on someone disguised as a joke. Let me put it this way—does the joke support and perpetuate a negative stereotype? Then don’t fucking say it. People have a hard enough time getting through life without you making a shitty one-liner about it.
I’ll say it again: I’m all for humor. Just leave the harmful jokes out of it. Saying these ‘jokes’ aren’t funny. This also applies to “that’s gay.” I could go on about this too, but I think I’ve made my point. Besides, saying these things just makes you sound so unintelligent as it just shows your lack of vocabulary and capacity of thinking for yourself.
