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25 Facts about Rape in America →
Prepare to be infuriated! From the Ms. Blog:
9. Percentage of rapes that result in incarceration: 0.35 percent
14. Two of the top five cities in the U.S. with the most “unfounded” (i.e., false or baseless reports, according to police) rapes: New Orleans and Baltimore
15. Percentage of rape reports deemed “unfounded” by New Orleans police in 2008: 60 percent
25. Number of people who have signed a letter urging the FBI to change its definition of rape: 2,019
Visit Ms. Blog for the full list. What’s going on NOLA? 60% of reported rapes are unfounded?! I’m gonna have to rethink your status as my fav city in the US :(
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Petition telling Etsy to remove the rape greeting card →
There’s a petition on change.org now telling Etsy to remove the rape congratulation greeting cards. Only 352 people have signed it (up from 296 when i signed last night). Please go sign it and pass this link along!!
I reported the card on Etsy right after i posted the link and so far i have gotten no response from them. Maybe they will not ignore a petition signed by 500 people?
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Etsy calls "Congratulations on your rape" greeting card "artistic expression" →
the description of the card reads “Get creeped on, get raped? Know someone that has? Then this card is for them.” the seller’s name is youstupidbitch. this is all incredibly offensive but what is most offensive is Etsy’s reply to a blogger that complained:
…It is important to us that we allow members of the community to express their own sensibilities, and to develop their shop identity to suit themselves and their market. What is offensive to some may be intended as a statement about culture by an artist.
Check out the link for the whole story, and then contact Etsy to let them know that rape and joking about rape is not artistic expression and it is offensive to everyone.
Tell Yale to Discipline Fraternity for Pro-Rape Chant (follow link to sign the petition).
“No means yes. Yes means anal!” What is this alarming pro-rape statement?
Why, it the little ditty that Yale Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity pledges chanted on Wednesday as they marched around Old Campus, where most first-years are housed. That means lots of 18-year-old women embarking on their first term of university life.
Other chants included “Fucking sluts” and “My name is Jack, I’m a necrophiliac, I fuck dead women, and fill them with my semen.” This isn’t the first time Yale has had this kind of misogynistic incident; in fact, it’s not even the first time the “no means yes” chant has been used.
The fraternity is engaging in a discussion about sexual violence with the Women’s Center, but this isn’t enough. With one in four college women victims or rape or attempted assault during their time on campus, this is too serious an issue to let slide by without disciplinary action.
Via: Jennifer McAdoo
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I love it when Dan Savage verbally slaps someone in the face for being a complete and total asshole. Savage, ftw, as usual. →
i don’t read dan savage regularly, but this is an awesome response to a horrible question from a person who really ought to be ashamed and should not claim to know what “love” is let alone be in it.
what boggles my mind is that this guy says he “can’t help but wonder if it borders on rape”. well let’s see, your girlfriend was so drunk she doesn’t remember what happened and later finds out someone that was “helping her throw up” took advantage of her when she was blacked out? what the hell would it be other than rape? can someone blacked out consent to sex? and even though HE is the one who “cant help but wonder if it borders on rape” he throws her out.
Via: queerwatch:wanderinguterus:sluthaditcoming: yesmeansyes
Possible trigger. Definite rage-inducer. But fuck yeah Dan Savage.
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this is awesome, oh yeah.
Via: missworld: fuckyeahgenderstudies:stfusexists:
THIS is the appropriate reaction to rapists.
Oh yes.
I know my brother would respond the same way.
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Jury Decides Consent Is Not Required For Girls Gone Wild →
Absolutely sickening. dancing in public means that you are fine with on-camera nudity? IN WHAT WORLD??!?! oh, i guess in this world, where our bodies don’t belong to us.
Via: caramelbaloney: jasencomstock: adailyriot: courageuse:
“A jury ruled yesterday against a woman who claimed her reputation was damaged after she was featured on a “Girls Gone Wild” video. What makes this case remarkable is that she didn’t expose her own breasts - she was assaulted. STLToday reports that the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, was dancing in at the former Rum Jungle bar in 2004 when someone reached up and pulled her tank top down, exposing her breasts to the “Girls Gone Wild” camera.”
“Patrick O’Brien, the jury foreman, explained later to reporters that they figured if she was willing to dance in front of the photographer, she was probably cool with having her breasts on film. They said she gave implicit consent by being at the bar, and by participating in the filming - though she never signed a consent form, and she can be heard on camera saying “no, no” when asked to show her breasts.”
This makes me so so so so ANGRY.
gross.
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It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read.
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