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Thoughts on Bottled Up

I don’t usually write book reviews (and the reason why will quickly become obvious), but as I was reading Suzanne Barston’s Bottled Up, I knew I would have to write about it afterward. It is such a great book and there are things in it I wanted to expand on/muse about, so I took notes as I was reading. First and foremost, my one-word summation of the book is: AWESOME. If I were asked to…

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misandry-mermaid

From a male’s point of view, all a female has to do is say she was raped and the male has to defend himself. It does not matter that the female consented and changed her mind afterward.” “I do not believe that consensual sex that is later regretted and reported as nonconsensual sex is rape. The `man in the bushes’ is a much bigger threat to the community than the date that got carried away.” “What if someone has had sex 20 or 30 times over a 3-month period. Then one night they say “no.” Should this be rape? I don’t think so.“ “If a young lady dates a man and they go home together—she allows the young man to get into bed with her and just before he has an orgasm she shouts “NO.” How then could you prosecute a young man for rape? I believe the definition of rape should apply to any circumstances as long as the evidence and testimony can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.“ "Sometimes a guy can’t stop himself. He gets egged on by the girl. Rape must involve force—and that’s really rare.” “I can tell you what rape isn’t: an individual going on a date and getting into foreplay and then finally consenting after being verbally persuaded.” “Rape is just rough sex that a girl changed her mind about later on. Technically, rape is a sex act done by the use of force, but so many girls are into being forced, that you can’t tell the difference and you wouldn’t want to convict an innocent guy.” “Men taking what women really want at that moment but decide they didn’t the next morning when they sober up.

Actual quotes from ACTIVE DUTY POLICE OFFICERS in a study of police officer perceptions of rape. (via misandry-mermaid)

….this hurts. And it’s why I twitch whenever someone says rape culture is a myth.

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Scary, scary stuff. If you don’t get a “yes” every step of the way, it’s rape. Women and men are allowed to change their minds. Unconscious and drunk people can’t consent. Why is this hard?

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whoissimpson

this is the funniest thing ive seen on the internet all day

Privilege Denying Dude via Meme Generator

rkb

If you haven’t heard, an open letter by blogger Kim Hall titled “FYI (if you’re a teenage girl),” in which the mom of te…

My latest at Medium takes on the now-infamous open letter about sexy selfies and ties it into a world where boys and men are seen as drooling idiots over female flesh and women can be fired from their jobs for dressing too sexy. If you like it, please do me a favor and click “recommend” at the bottom. Thanks!

tootricky

litto

To the fan I lost yesterday: I don't owe you an explanation, but I thought I'd offer one anyway. I do this more for your sake than mine. You see, maybe, as you later suggested, I was in a bad mood....

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

fat-birds

Lady Gouldian Finch? No, It’s a Beta Fish.

npr

If you said the “s” word in the ninth century, you probably wouldn’t have shocked or offended anyone. Back then, the “s” word was just the everyday word that was used to refer to excrement.

That’s one of many surprising, foul-mouthed facts Melissa Mohr reveals in her new book, Holy S- - -: A Brief History of Swearing. Though the curse words themselves change over time, the category remains constant — we always have a set of words that are off-limits.

“We need some category of swear words,” Mohr says. “[These] words really fulfill a function that people have found necessary for thousands of years.”

Mohr joined NPR’s David Greene to talk about curses through the ages and how the words that offend us reveal a lot about society and its values.

— Interview: Melissa Mohr, Author Of ‘Holy Sh*t’

jomc

Over the 20 years that followed, I found that being a woman put me at one remove from the general society of programmers. I resented that distance, but I liked to think that it was in some way fortunate — that my standing back gave me a clearer view of our profession and its effects on society at large.

How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer’ - NYTimes.com

there’s so much good here i wouldn’t know what to quote. but this line especially communicates something pretty powerful, so subtly

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hexedcoffee

So, in the middle of everything today, we ran across a hellaciously distressed momma mallard and a bunch of her baby ducks that had fallen down a sewer grate. Another guy was already trying to fish them out, so my friend and I called animal control before we tried to fish the rest of them out. When Animal Control got there, we had all of them out and the mother duck quacking very happily. I was surprised - none of us got snapped at or hurt. I was even holding onto a bag at one point that had all of them in it and she just watched me.

breanieswordvomit

I love how the duck is perched on the guy’s butt

sweet-bitsy

I’M SO HAPPY

chronically-ill-dandy

I wonder why she stood on his butt. Was it a “thank you?” Is she a dominatrix duck that’s like “Most ducks pay me to do this stuff, but for you… Free of charge.”