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Today, I read an article about a woman with HIV who was raped. The man that attacked her is now HIV positive. All of the commentary surround this was about how she should have told him she was HIV+ and that women with HIV should have a badge or special underwear so that this doesnāt happen to another man. It is 12:12am and I am already done with the world.Ā
That is rape culture
THIS POST WINS FOR THE MOST HORRIFYING THING IāVE READ ALL DAY
WTF
WTF
WTF
Obviously the point was to reflect the wage gap. Really, really obviously. How do people still not get it.
If they get that wound up over paying $0.25 more at a bakesale image how furious they'd be if we took it out of their pay and reversed the gap.
Neoliberal Feminism: A How-To
Step 1: Proclaim that anything a woman does is feminist and that her voice should not be silenced.
Step 2: Ignore the abused, raped, drugged, trafficked, murdered and traumatized victims of the sex industry when they tell you that your "feminism" fucking sucks.
Things nobody ever tells you about female bodily functions, so you have to google it to find out itās perfectly normal:
Vaginal chemistry being acidic enough to bleach your black underwear.
Yeeeeeep
idk what is in my pussy but itās hungry and it sucks in the darkness from my underpants
I was 23 before I knew this happened to other people
Likeā¦. Wtf world
This is information I needed way before then
Iām 36 and I just learned this is an everyone problem from this post. Shit.
Wait, you mean there isnāt anything fucking wrong with me?Ā
omg i didnt know this happened to other people
LMFAO I thought it was just my haphazard laundering habits.
This is Ian Foote. My husband and I met this man at one of my shows at the Rickshaw Theatre in East Vancouver last week and I added him on Facebook that same night because he and his girlfriend seemed nice enough.
WARNING TO WOMEN IN EAST VAN.
This man is potential rapist who openly admits to having to forcibly stop himself from raping on the daily.
Please spread this around, I want everyone in Vancouver to know to stay far away from this man.
Visiting my family. My brother put a bath towel down for the dogs to piss on because he was too lazy to get the puppy pads from downstairs.
Why are men allowed to do anything.
Some Questions for Liberal Feminists
I have had just about enough of you, liberal feminists. Why are you open to discussion from anyone in your little circle, but not the cries of others who tell you that what youāre doing is hurting women? Why are you making excuses for the disgusting men who traffic, rape and abuse women ā and why,Ā why, is that is excuse that youĀ like these men hanging over you?
Why doesnāt it alarm you that you are supporting male power fantasies? Why doesnāt it alarm you that you are silencing women?
Why do you think that feminism is whatever you say it is, even if it hurts women ā as long as it allows you to feel good about whatever youāre doing?
Why is your ignorant bliss more important than the safety and wellbeing of women?
This pisses me off so much like they didnāt listen to you at all
She even blocked me so that I couldn't continue to speak up.
This is what happens when we allow feminism to become an individualist movement. People are now allowed to apply "feminism" as an identity label with no real rules or thought required, and if you question that application, you become a judgmental bigot.
The result is that the word, and in fact the movement,Ā feminism, is meaningless and therefore stripped of its power. "Feminist" can now be applied to pornographers, pimps, abusers, rapists, and all other host of decidedly non-feminist characters. It can be turned on its head to hurt and vilify the very people it was meant to protect and liberate.
And it alignsĀ exactly with patriarchal ideals.
Our power to organize is removed. Our ability to engage in discourse in order to refine our ideas about what needs to be done is diminished. Even our ideas about ourselves and what is normal and healthy for women are hijacked and diluted so efficiently that we cannot even act in our own individual interest, though we think we are.
It's frightening and upsetting, and I hope more liberal feminists come to their senses soon.
Sex trafficking laws assume that all underage sex workers are exploited young girls who have been forced into such work by a vicious pimp. But does this actually reflect the experience of most young, domestic sex workers? Using ethnographic research from Atlantic City and New York City, Anthony Marcus, Chris Thomas, and Amber Horning find that underage sex workers have much more agency in their relationships with pimps than many assume[ā¦]
*rubs eyes*
Yup. Itās real.
OH MY GOD
This is gross.
Did they just inventĀ
traffic positiveĀ (āāæāāæ)
(remember, sex traffic is only what you make it to be!!)
"young, domestic sex workers" sounds so much nicer than "child rape victims", doesnāt it
If you want to know how damaging the discourse around āchild sex workersā having āagency in their relationships with their pimpsā is, look at how many of the victims (all or mostly teenage girls) of some of the recent child sexual abuse gangs in various parts of the UK were initially treated by social services, the police, and other agencies.Ā
Girls who had been groomed, threatened, beaten, raped, and prostituted at house parties, were described as making ālifestyle choicesā when their parents and carers asked for help. The authorities concentrated on the girlsā drinking and behaviour, not on what was being done to them by adult men.Ā
When the police eventually acted and the men were brought to court the girls spent days and even weeks being cross-examined, as each accused man had his own lawyer who questioned each girl separately - and were accused of lying and asked to repeat distressing details over and over. If the police and the CPS had charged the men of trafficking (which there was evidence for) rather than rape and other crimes, the young women would not have had to take the stand.
Iām not opposed to research into how children and teenagers are prostituted and what can be done to help prostituted children and teenagers and prevent the prostitution of children - but explaining this in terms of childrenās agency when CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT TO SEX and grooming is a thing, is disgusting and shows these academics are on the side of the men who rape children, not the young people they are researching.
this is a fucking joke
One does wonder if the outcome would have been the same if were patients of any other medical procedure in question.
Probably not.
immunity cat also shelters you from coercive āreblog this or you arenāt a real X/youāre a terrible personā posts. It is OK to not emotionally blackmail your followers.
thank u immunity cat
I was a Facebook sock puppet for the CIA
http://www.itworld.com/internet/140649/i-was-facebook-sock-puppet-cia
I was a Facebook sock puppet for the CIA Well, not really. But I could be, and so could you, thanks to a plan by the US military to create fake online personae to spread pro-US propaganda.
By Dan Tynan Add a comment March 18, 2011, 10:54 AM ā Are you seeking an exciting career pretending to be multiple fake people online while serving your country? It could be just a phone call away.
The US military has contracted with a California-based company that makes it easier to create and manage fake identities online. Ntrepid Corp. will be receiving $2.75 million of your and my tax money for the purpose of spreading pro-US propaganda overseas by making it appear that the sentiments are coming from actual living humans and not digital sock puppets.
[ See also: That new Facebook friend might just be a spy ]
Per the UK Guardian:
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an āonline persona management serviceā that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the worldā¦.
The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations āwithout fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversariesā.
The military is quick to point out that a) itās not planning to use sock puppets on English language or US-based sites, and ii) itās not targeting Facebook or Twitter at all, regardless of location or language.
Maybe not in this contract, and maybe not today. But youād best believe this is somebodyās plans. Thereās nothing to stop the military from using this tool domestically if it so chooses. (HBGary Federal, another recipient of our tax dollars and a bidder for that CentCom contract, has already been exposed for using fake Facebook profiles in a misguided effort to uncover the identity of Anonymous.) And can we really trust what these guys tell us? For all we know they used a sock puppet spokesperson.
As media gadfly Jeff Jarvis points out in a Guardian op-ed piece, this is what spammers do all day long. He writes:
I think we can agree that itās sad to see the US government taming the power of the net to stoop to the morals of a clumsy Nigerian spammer.
Interestingly, NTrepid is in fact the same company that makes Anonymizer, a proxy service that allows people to hide their identities on the Web and is often used by political dissidents living under repressive regimes. Iāve always thought of Anonymizer/Ntrepid CTO Lance Cottrell as one of the good guys. Now Iām not so sure. Creating propaganda-spouting sock puppets isnāt my idea of advancing civil liberties or making the Internet a safer place to be.
ITworld TY4NS blogger Dan Tynan is not now and has never been an Internet sock puppet. But heād be willing to consider it if the pay was right. Experience his juvenile sense of humor at eSarcasm (Geek Humor Gone Wild) or follow him on Twitter:@tynan_on_tech.
This is kind of surreal.
Donāt criticize ANYTHING the patriarchy expects of every woman everywhere, because some woman somewhere might like it, and avoiding critical analysis that might make her upset supersedes any discussion about how society coerces nearly every female choice in order to control womenās lives.
Great feminism. Gold star. See no problems here.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled the clinic buffer zone unconstitutional this country is a fucking joke.
what the actual fuckā¦.
I wish it were a joke...
Some Questions for Liberal Feminists
I have had just about enough of you, liberal feminists. Why are you open to discussion from anyone in your little circle, but not the cries of others who tell you that what you're doing is hurting women? Why are you making excuses for the disgusting men who traffic, rape and abuse women Ā -- and why,Ā why, is that is excuse that youĀ like these men hanging over you?
Why doesn't it alarm you that you are supporting male power fantasies? Why doesn't it alarm you that you are silencing women?
Why do you think that feminism is whatever you say it is, even if it hurts women -- as long as it allows you to feel good about whatever you're doing?
Why is your ignorant bliss more important than the safety and wellbeing of women?
So it has come to this.
This made me so sad. I feel mild irritation at similar comments from men because I expect it.
When it comes from feminists, my heart hurts because these are people who are supposed to understand. They are supposed to be the people who won't do this.
So it has come to this.
āStop sending expired foodāā¦.āfried chicken 64.99āĀ
IQALUIT, Nunavut ā A head of cabbage for $20. Fifteen bucks for a small bag of apples.
A case of ginger ale: $82.
Fed up and frustrated by sky-high food prices and concerned over widespread hunger in their communities, thousands of Inuit have spent weeks posting pictures and price tags from their local grocery stores to a Facebook site called Feed My Family.
Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120608/inuit-food-prices-protest-120608/#ixzz1xKWAJkGe
Holy hell.
WHAT IN THE FUCK? This shit is not okay.
ughhslfkajsdlf gross gross gross
64.99?????
These people are starving for a reason.
Conservationists
have been starving
these people
to death for years.
Reblogging for the extra articles.Ā
Alsoā¦ I might show up to this protest and support them.Ā
Pay attention to this stuff, please, followers who havenāt heard about this!Ā This kind of thing is completely erased in news media.
This is really fucking important.
This is why I donāt respect anyone who blindly supports the anti-sealing protestors. Because for a lot of people, itās the only affordable option.
Itās not just Iqaluit. In Nain, LabradorĀ this problem has been going on for ages and nobody does anything about it. $47 for a ham and $17 for a block of cheese. In Rigolet, Labrador, a loaf of bread costs $7. Hereās another picture of an Iqaluit food price changing before your very eyes.
The NNCP is starving people, reducing their food choices, and keeping people on EI poor. This is so, so wrong.
How can we help? I joined the group and checked out the website, but I didnāt see anything that can be actively done (other than raising awareness, which, of course, is great).
Excellent question! If you read through the group (which is here, for anyone who missed it), there are people talking about some ways to help.
Look at the latest news on the Feeding My Family websiteĀ to see what the priorities are and how you might be able to help.
If youāre Canadian, call your local MP and ask to discuss this issue and express your concern.
Look up ways to support putting pressure onto airlines to charge fair rates (a $1000 plane ticket should be from one coast to the other, not a few hundred miles).
Research and learn what you can about food sustainability. For a start, how about learning square foot/metre (French intensive) gardening or container gardening and starting to practice it yourself? Share these techniques with friends and family. Get good at it so you can teach them to others who have poor food security in your own area.
For the love of God, stop signing āanti-sealingā/āanti-huntingā petitions and supporting Greenpeaceās actions without understanding the complicated, nuanced situation in the North.
Watch the FB group, because people there mention direct donations and ways to help the organizations actually on the ground there.
For example, one person is starting up a donation project/fundraiser.
Look at what organizations like FoodShare are doing and support them.
There is so much to be done. Sharing news articles and stories, lists of resources, donation and fundraising pages, and knowledge about food security is critical, but thereās a lot more work of all sorts.
