these should be plastered all over every high school and college campus
(Source: haveigonetoofar)
[tw: sexual assault]
I’ve never read more than one page of Twilight but I’ve heard time and time again about it romanticizing an abusive relationship. And wow, these excerpts are completely sickening. I hope if they ever teach Twilight in schools, which i hope they never do, but if they were going to, this is a perfect way to start a conversation about rape culture and consent
Via. Blaming the (female) victim by talking about clothing choices, intoxicity levels, promiscuity etc etc.
When someone explicitly states that men cannot be sexually assaulted. When someone says men are not ever sexually assualted. Then yes, by all means, say something.
As someone who was…
“ That man was very strong. I wasn’t kissing him. He was kissing me. ”
It seems pretty clear, then, that what George had committed was sexual assault. Yet, in an amazing feat of willful blindness, none of the articles comment on this, even as they reproduce Greta’s words for us. Without a single acknowledgement of the problematic nature of the photo that her comments reveal, they continue to talk about the picture in a whimsical, reverent manner, “still mesmerized by his timeless kiss.” George’s actions are romanticized and glorified; it is almost as if Greta had never spoken.
Some talk of The Kissing Sailor photo in light of it being discovered of who the couple are.
“Historic” as it is, to be honest I always found something a bit gross about the photo. It barely looks like an embrace but more of a grip, and that guy laughing to the left of the frame always creeped me out. I suppose there will be those that argue against the revisionist talk but it doesn’t bother me.
(via fairmanrants)
Yeah. It doesn’t take a Who Weekly body language expert to look straight at her clenched fist and think “Hmm, not all that romantic, is it?”
(via clambistro)
I will reblog the truth of this photo every single time that I see it. Because the fact that the woman is EXPLICIT in her description of what actually happened, it is still revered as an iconic symbol of American romance.
If you want an example of misogyny and rape culture—you’re looking at it.
(via curiousgeorgiana)
*Trigger warning for sexual assault, child abuse, secondary trauma*
The first one just broke my heart.
this is intense
(Source: resonantbodies)
Trigger Warning for sexual assault and general casual systematized asshole misogyny
The first poem is funny and great but at 2:50 is when she starts the poem she performed at SlutWalk that left me shaky and spacy and crying.
More fun beer vs. women jokes IN POSTER FORM can be found here.
“12. You always know you’re the first one to pop a beer.” goes out to the conversation I got to have this morning about “hur hurr wouldn’t it be great to have sex with an 18 year old because hurr they are technically legal but hurr hur hurr they are probably still virgins and you know how great virgins are because they are so tight just like all vaginas and women should be right right right?” which very briefly turned into “Sorry if I hurt your feelings I hope you’re okay it’s just something stupid I’ve picked up it doesn’t really matter” but quickly escalated into “How dare you suggest that I’m a part of ANYTHING you were protesting against yesterday I’m not a part of rape culture and I obviously didn’t mean it against women I just meant that it would be cool it’s just like x and y and z and I can’t believe you would make me feel bad about this I wish you would just edit your feelings about what I said earlier.”
Yeah, fuck you.
It sucks coming back to real life sometimes.
god this is amazing
oh my god
(Source: wonderbecky)
