liberals be like: who wants to get evicted at gun point because your poor, but by a goodcop!!!
Our Pink Cops will evict you at gunpoint, but they’ll be LGBT-friendly about it!
A cop, pinning me to the wall and dislocating my shoulder: WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS WHAT ARE YOUR PROUNOUNS
Lmao, yall joke, but when I got arrested and ziptied being lead to the paddywagon the cop was askin info on the way and he’s like: “what’re uh…yer pronouns and all..”
And I was like “wait what…..why do you need that?” Nd he’s like “errr uh we have to ask.”
So many people never ask and just assume, so I almost fell for the trick, I really was like almost giddy about being asked completely forgetting where I was, but then I had to jump back into the closet cuz i realized it didn’t seem right, so I said “uh……he”.
I found out later that other GNC people who gave their true pronouns were all placed in isolation and subjected to worse treatment than the rest of us, including assault.
Liberals are our enemy too.
yuuuuuuuup! I was asked my pronouns when arrested too and same deal trans prisoners are put in solitary so fuck that shit!
A BIG ANGRY
literally kill every cop!!
Same actually, except that they were going to check my genitals and stuff me in with the men if I didn’t come out as trans to them. They also spent a good 10 minutes making fun of me and making jokes about my dick while processing me.
Oh, and they literally moved a female prisoner to the next cell to put me in solitary.
Frankly like, death to cops fuck the system.
Yeah, this. We were all only ever joking in the ‘it sounds funny but only because if I don’t laugh i’ll cry or punch things cause it’s true.’ way. LGBT-inclusiveness means nothing for most of us in an oppressive state.
i would just like to remind people that h*rmaphrodite is in fact a slur against intersex people (the h slur). don’t refer to us as that, either as individuals or a group - unless someone says it’s okay for you to call them that (some of us do identify with the term).
you. you know hermaphroditus was made intersex from sexual assault and then had the fountain it happened in “cursed” so that anyone who went in it would become intersex, right. that’s. that’s not comforting at all. please stop mentioning them
EMMONAK, Alaska — She was 19, a young Alaska Native woman in this icebound fishing village of 800 in the Yukon River delta, when an intruder broke into her home and raped her. The man left. Shaking, the woman called the tribal police, a force of three. It was late at night. No one answered. She left a message on the department’s voice mail system. Her call was never returned. She was left to recover on her own.
“I drank a lot,” she said this spring, three years later. “You get to a certain point, it hits a wall.”
One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape, according to the Justice Department.Their rate of sexual assault is more than twice the national average. And no place, women’s advocates say, is more dangerous than Alaska’s isolated villages, where there are no roads in or out, and where people are further cut off by undependable telephone, electrical and Internet service.
Here in Emmonak, the overmatched police have failed to keep statistics related to rape. A national study mandated by Congress in 2004 to examine the extent of sexual violence on tribal lands remains unfinished because, the Justice Department says, the $2 million allocation is insufficient.
But according a survey by the Alaska Federation of Natives, the rate of sexual violence in rural villages like Emmonak is as much as 12 times the national rate. And interviews with Native American women here and across the nation’s tribal reservations suggest an even grimmer reality: They say few, if any, female relatives or close friends have escaped sexual violence.
The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service hospitals, where there is also a lack of access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease testing. There are also too few nurses trained to perform rape examinations, which are generally necessary to bring cases to trial.
Women say the tribal police often discourage them from reporting sexual assaults, and Indian Health Service hospitals complain they lack cameras to document injuries.
Police and prosecutors, overwhelmed by the crime that buffets most reservations, acknowledge that they are often able to offer only tepid responses to what tribal leaders say has become a crisis.
Rape, according to Indian women, has been distressingly common for generations, and they say tribal officials and the federal and state authorities have done little to help halt it, leading to its being significantly underreported.
In the Navajo Nation, which encompasses parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, 329 rape cases were reported in 2007 among a population of about 180,000. Five years later, there have been only 17 arrests. Women’s advocates on the reservation say only about 10 percent of sexual assaults are reported.
Nationwide, an arrest is made in just 13 percent of the sexual assaults reported by American Indian women, according to the Justice Department, compared with 35 percent for black womenand32 percent for whites.
In South Dakota, Indians make up 10 percent of the population, but account for 40 percent of the victims of sexual assault. Alaska Natives are 15 percent of that state’s population, but constitute 61 percent of its victims of sexual assault.
The Justice Department did not prosecute 65 percent of the rape cases on Indian reservations in 2011.And though the department said it had mandated extra training for prosecutors and directed each field office to develop its own plan to help reduce violence against women, some advocates for Native American women said they no longer pressed victims to report rapes.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we are inviting you to #TakethePledge to end sexual violence on your college campus or in your communities. Share a photo of yourself with a poster or caption saying “I Will End Sexual Violence” to take the pledge yourself!
Regardless of what you were wearing. Regardless of why you were there. Regardless of if you were drunk or high. Regardless of if you are queer or gay. Regardless of whether it was oral, anal, with a finger or object. Regardless of whether you fought back or called out. Regardless of whether your rapist was your friend, boyfriend, husband.
>>There is no excuse for rape.<<
END the victim blaming! Print, Paste, and Pass Along! <3 <3 <3
#didisayyes A poster in response to the recent rape of a CalArts Student who was asked by school administrators victim-blaming questions such as “how short was your dress?”
Earlier this month, I had an unfortunate conversation with a stranger discussing the idea that if a woman “dresses sexy,” she’s “asking for” street harassment. (The guy didn’t go the extra nine yards stating that women who dress “skimpy” are asking to be sexually assaulted, but the implication was there). I replied that this has never, to the best of my knowledge, been true. A woman never puts on a flattering dress or a low cut shirt and goes, “gee, I hope random men on the street make lewd comments about my body today” or “I’d really love to be sexually assaulted tonight.” He replied, “well, why you dress so sexy then?” This seems to come up a lot in my discussions with others about my work to end street harassment, and is something I’d like to work on developing a unified response to in my upcoming projects. I know what my reasons are, but would like to hear some responses from all of you. So, ladies and gents, why you dress so sexy then?
It’s encouraging that the links between pornography and domestic violence are getting some much deserved exposure, with some helpful solutions being proposed!
[SMH.com] — The Men’s Referral Service manager Nathan DeGuara said there was a strong correlation between pornography and domestic violence.
“Pornography sets up the expectations of what a man should expect from a woman. Pornography is typically about men doing whatever is it is they want to do to women.”
He said the service, which offered confidential telephone counselling for men with violent urges, often received calls about domestic violence stemming form unrealistic sexual expectations.
And these were often created by pornography.
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“Duke Amalo sent his wife to another estate to attend to his interests, and fell in love with a certain free-born girl. And hen it was night and Amalo was drunk with wine he sent his men to seize the girl and bring her to his bed. She resisted and they brought her by force to his house, slapping her, and she was stained by a torrent of blood that ran from her nose. And even the bed of the duke mentioned above was made bloody by the stream. And he beat her, too, striking with his fists and cuffing her and beating her otherwise, and took her in his arms, but he was immediately overwhelmed with drowsiness and went to sleep. And she reached her hand over the man’s head and found his sword and drew it, and like Judith Holofernes struck the duke’s head a powerful blow. He cried out and his slaves came quickly. But when they wished to kill her he called out saying: “I beg you do not do it for it was I who did wrong in attempting to violate her chastity. Let her not perish for striving to keep her honor.” Saying this he died. And while the household was assembled weeping over him the the girl escaped from the house by God’s help and went in the night to the city of Chalon about thirtyfive miles away; and there she entered the church of Saint Marcellus and threw herself at the king’s feet and told all she had endured. Then the king was merciful and not only gave her her life but commanded that an order be given that she should be placed under his protection and should not suffer harm from any kinsman of the dead man. Moreover we know that by God’s help the girl’s chastity was not in any way violated by her savage ravisher.”
I wanted to touch on something that has been haunting me lately. At 13 I was sexually assaulted by my best friend at the time. I told my closest friends when I was ready, in fear that this could happen to them. As I look back at it, 9 years later, I feel disgusted. All of those friends, except for 2 of them, I told 8 of them, erased them from their lives and stood by my side proudly. Everyone else continued to be his friend and try and be mine at the same time. During that time it hurt me alot because I felt like they either didn’t believe me or didn’t think that what he did was that big of a deal. I felt incredibly alone, I didn’t report it in fear of being harrassed as I lived in a very small town, and also because his family had alot of money and I did not, not to mention he had also threatened me. And these girls, some of whom I had known since elementary school, had done something completely unforgettable, and left me feeling even more ashamed of myself. I’m writing this because sometimes you dont realize the things you may be doing, but if you friend confines in you about assault or abuse, you be there for them, Male or female. Be the support system they need to help them feel safe, and to report what has happened to them. They already feel vulnerable enough, be their safe place.
Lady GagadefendedKesha during a deposition with Dr. Luke’s lawyers, at one point telling one of the lawyers that she “should be ashamed” of herself.
According to The Blast, recently unsealed court documents from a September 2017 deposition between Gaga and Dr. Luke’s lawyers show a heated exchange in which Gaga defends Kesha. Reportedly, the deposition took place a few years after a text message exchange between Kesha and Gaga. Gaga testified that Kesha had confided in her about Dr. Luke’s alleged abuse, but the deposition became contentious when Dr. Luke’s lawyers said Gaga didn’t have any “personal knowledge” of any interactions between Dr. Luke and Kesha.
“With respect to Mr. Gottwald [Dr. Luke] himself, you have absolutely no personal knowledge or information as to any interaction between him and Ms. Sebert [Kesha], correct, physical or otherwise?” the lawyer asked Gaga, according to the documents.
This poor child was dragged back to her abusive mother. I say that the mother is abusive because she watches Sophie get molested by her boyfriend and does nothing. Sophie is screaming for help infront of a CPS worker and the cps worker just ignores her. Spread the word about Sophie.
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Rape culture is not just the amount of rapes that occur. It’s a social conditioning that that happens culturally, implicitly. It’s the violence, sexual assault and rape that is joked about and otherwise trivialized. It’s the reasoning given when a person that has been assaulted or attempted sexual assault that their trauma is meaningless.
Rape culture is not trivializing any rape that happens in the prison system or in other places. We are all aware that in other countries, you can be sentenced to death for being raped. However, this realization is not constructive for what is happening here. Rape exists. They are horrible acts of violence that occur to people all over the world. It is a serious crime not to be taken at face value. Unfortunately, as much faith as I’d like to put in our legal system for bringing all rapists to justice, and separating “fact from fiction,” you would have to be under the assumption that all rapes are reported. In fact, an astounding 1 in 6 American women have been the victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. Over 17.7 million American women have been victims of rape or attempted rape. Rape exists. Also men get raped. However, the reason it is not the focus of every rape awareness article is because females make up a significant part of the population (9 out of 10 victims were reported female).
It’s not a guilty until proven innocent situation, the amount of strength it takes for a person to come out and say they were raped and being put into the public sphere is humiliating. To accuse someone of rape is an incredible ordeal. Don’t you think the victim considers this? That is one of the reasons why so few rapes are reported. We have been taught to look out for our abuser, that they are otherwise a “good person” that don’t need their life ruined because of this. Other women fear the social stigma that goes around people being raped. Even if our country, if no woman will get sentenced to death for reporting her rape, in many communities, a raped woman is stigmatized as tainted. At the very least, she will be treated differently. When accusing a person of a rape, you are not only outing the rapist, they are outing themselves as a victim.
Since we were talking about college students earlier, I will continue using them as an example:
“Women ages 16 to 24 experience rape at rates four times higher than the assault rate of all women.
Fewer than 5 percent of college women who are victims of rape or attempted rape report it to victims tell someone, often a friend (but usually not a family member or college official). In one study, over 40 percent of those raped who did not report the incident said they did not do so because they feared reprisal by the assailant or others.15 In addition, some rape victims may fear the emotional trauma of the legal process itself. Low reporting, however, ensures that few victims receive adequate help, most offenders are neither confronted nor prosecuted, and colleges are left in the dark about the extent of the problem.16
Many acquaintance rape victims (using the legal definition of rape) do not label their assault as rape.† Perhaps it seems unimaginable that an acquaintance would rape them, and victims often initially blame themselves. Acquaintance rape victims offer a range of reasons for not reporting the rape to authorities:17
† One of the largest studies of the problem found that in nearly half the incidents legally categorized as completed rapes, the women did not consider the incident to be a rape (Fisher, Cullen and Turner 2000). [Full text]
embarrassment and shame,
fear of publicity,
fear of reprisal from assailant,
fear of social isolation from the assailant’s friends,
fear that the police will not believe them,
fear that the prosecutor will not believe them or will not bring charges,
self-blame for drinking or using drugs before the rape, self-blame for being alone with the assailant, perhaps in one’s own or the assailant’s residence,
mistrust of the campus judicial system, and
fear that their family will find out.”
If you see the reasoning for the underreporting of rapes committed, you will see the rape culture there. Rape culture is women not wearing heels or mini skirts outside at nighttime for fear and EXPECTATION of getting assaulted. Rape culture is the necessity of consent campaigns. Rape culture is the explicit fetishization of assault in the porn industry as creative expression.
Rape culture does exist. I think precisely the reason we disagree is because we are not on the same page for what it actually is. Rape culture is not just RAPE. It is the treatment that goes into trivializing sexual assault and belittling the victim.
You can always make the argument that talking about rape culture is trivial in comparison to all the other types of violence and oppression that exists in the world. However, that doesn’t mean that you should belittle it. This isn’t the oppression Olympics. Horrible things happen to people. Rape culture is a topic of conversation because its something that exists in our culture. No one is outwardly saying I SUPPORT RAPE, IT IS GOOD. If you think that’s what rape culture is, then you are missing the point.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the condescension I detected in your message reeks of insecurity of a constructive argument. We can debate, but sometimes cattiness can take away from the issue being discussed. Here are some sources and information regarding rape culture including some citations for statistics I’ve mentioned in this post. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Men and women are not “equally oppressed” under patriarchy.
Such statements are nonsensical as oppression predicates inequality.
Male domination treats women and girls as commodities to be abused and discarded by men.
“A new U.N. report warns ‘the number of human trafficking victims is on the rise’ as criminal gangs and terror groups prey increasingly on women and children to make money and bolster their numbers. The 90-page Global Trafficking in Persons report says that children, who account for 30 percent of all trafficking victims, include 'far more’ girls than boys.”
