When social justice isn't just a job
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Rape is not a compliment, and one’s conformance to or divergence from the kyriarchal beauty standard is not an indicator of one’s likelihood of being victimized by sexual violence.
Melissa McEwan, At the Intersection of Survivor and Fat (via fuckyeahfeminists)
So here’s the real reason that rape jokes are troubled territory -
Because rape victims say so.
They get to say that. They get to feel that way. On this, they get to set the cultural rules.
It’s not about right or wrong, or logic versus emotion, or arguments of over sensitivity or hypocrisy - you have the free speech to make whatever jokes you want or talk about rape in whatever way you feel is illuminating. But they get to be upset about it. And call you on it. And be hurt by it.
But consider this:
You get to not be a rape victim.
They, however, are not afforded that luxury. Ever again.
Chuck Wendig (via thenewwomensmovement)
(Source: vickiexz)
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Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge to rip open her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality.
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