Winters Pass & Seasons Change
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Gentlemen. This is what rape culture is like:
Imagine you have a Rolex watch. Nice fancy Rolex, you bought it because you like the way it looks and you wanted to treat yourself. And then you get beaten and mugged and your Rolex is stolen. So you go to the police. Only, instead of investigating the crime, the police want to know why you were wearing a Rolex instead of a regular watch. Have you ever given a Rolex to anyone else? Is it possible you wanted to be mugged? Why didn’t you wear long sleeves to cover up the Rolex if you didn’t want to be mugged?
And then after that, everywhere you go, there are constant jokes about stealing your Rolex. People you don’t even know whistle at your Rolex and make jokes about cutting your hand off to get it. The media doesn’t help either; it portrays people who wear Rolexes as flamboyant assholes who secretly just want someone to come along and take that Rolex off their hands. When damn, all you wanted was to wear a nice watch without getting harassed for it. When you complain that you are starting to feel unsafe, people laugh you off and say that you are too uptight. Never mind you got violently attacked for the crime of wearing a friggin time piece.
Imagining all that? It sucks, doesn’t it.
Now imagine you could never take the Rolex off.
”The Wretched of the Earth: [TW: rape] On Rape Culture (via ghettogwenythpaltrow)
Man… There is just no explaining how hurtful and vile it feels to have your body and your humanity spoken about in this way. I understand the intent of this analogy… But THIS IS RAPE CULTURE!
Breaking down our human experience as women and having to compare us to something that would truly have value to a man (like a fucking watch) just so they can try to understand what it’s like to lack bodily autonomy in our society is not beneficial… It’s hurtful. Really really hurtful.
If you want to understand… LISTEN to us. Don’t wander around trying to break us down into some analogy that only serves to further dehumanize us.
(via fats)
FUCKING THANK YOU.
THIS ANALOGY STINGS EVERY DAMN TIME I SEE IT.
AND I MAKE AN ANGRY POST EVERYTIME IT POPS UP ON MY DASH.
UGH.
(via saucy-mermaid)
We have to be compared to an inanimate object in order for a man to associate the worth of that object with our lives.
(via bigbootiedtattooedcuties)
(via iridessence)
“Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home.”
(Source: skintones, via lust-in-her-eyes)
Asako Narahashi - Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water (2008)
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A message from Prince Harry at the CHIME for Change concert. (x)
REASONS WHY I LOVE HIM TO DEATH.
Nothin’ turns me on like a ginger preachin’ feminism.
Yes, the “real men” thing is problematic, but this a big deal. More men in positions of power need to talk about respecting women and acknowledging how they, specifically, play a role in how society degrades us.
(Source: ilovethebritishroyals, via juicyjacqulyn)
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(Source: smokesnowyou, via wretcheddisease)
